The NFL is down to its final four teams in the hunt for the Super Bowl and once again the PGA Tour will wrap up the final round of the Farmers Insurance championship on Saturday.
Justin Thomas loves that.
“It was incredible, I got to watch football on Sunday,” Thomas said of last year’s Saturday finish. “I was ecstatic about it. Even so much so that I pushed the Tour that we do it during the entire playoffs because I love football and I love watching football.”
The Tour didn’t buy into what J.T. was selling for the entirety of the NFL playoffs but the Saturday finish will be standard again this year.
Truth be known, J.T. and his father Mike are Bengals fans as Cincinnati is only about 100 miles from Louisville, where Thomas grew up. Mike is from Ohio and is a long-time Bengals fan.
J.T.’s mom? Well she’s out of luck — she’s from Pittsburgh and is a Steelers fan.
J.T. may be pulling for the Bengals but he has some tough memories courtesy of Bengals QB Joe Burrow. “I hate to say that I love Joe Burrow because he took a beating to my Crimson Tide, but it’s hard not to like him and root for him and just be optimistic about what he’s done with the Bengals,” Thomas added.
LIV Lawsuit Losing Traction?:
At some point this year, the LIV lawsuit against the PGA Tour will finally go to court but in the meantime, there’s enough happening where LIV may be losing traction in its anti-trust complaint against the PGA Tour.
First, The Lamest Commissioner In All The Land (aka Greg Norman) keeps boasting how successful LIV has become.
Second, LIV finally has a television deal on the CW network, home to a plethora of re-runs and a network whose average viewer is north of 58-years-old, not to mention that LIV isn’t getting any compensation for the broadcast rights.
Second and most recently, PGA Tour Commish Jay Monahan (aka The Sheriff Of Nottingham) and DP World Tour boss have recused themselves from any involvement with the LIV application for world ranking points.
No doubt both were advised to do so by their legal counsels.
The LIV application will be reviewed by a separate committee consisting of reps from each of the four major championships — The R&A, the PGA of America, the USGA and Augusta National Golf Club. None of the major championships have banned LIV defectors.
LIV submitted its application in July of 2022. The process normally anywhere from 16 to 24 months.
