Unprepared! - LIV Lawyer Stumbles, Bumbles, Fumbles In Court - Dog Leg News

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Tom Edrington spent the first 10 years of his misguided youth as a sports writer for the Tampa Tribune. His career brought him face to face with many of sports greatest stars -- Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Muhammad Ali, Don Shula, countless Hall of Fame NFL stars, more PGA Tour players than he can count. In 1980 he was honored by the Golf Writers Association of America for writing the best news story that year, his coverage of Jack Nicklaus' U.S. Open victory at Baltusrol. Today, 36 years later, golf is still a great part of his life, thanks to competitive playing days and the wonderful people he has met on this fabulous journey.

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    baxter cepeda

    So no doubt this guy was unprepared; it does seem this rushed emergency plan was no bueno for LIv.

    One note: you mentioned cam smith going to LIv hurts the anti trust case, which is probably true, but on the other hand cam young has backed out reportedly because this ruling has increased his fear, the same fear which has held many other players from signing. And that fear of course is the powers that be led by Monahan may hold them back from achieving their major dreams —as in playing in and winning majors which are the real legacy events in golf—ironically held out of majors just for signing with the worlds most prestigious Pro golf tour.

    frankly I don’t know what will happen with all that legal stuff— but I do know what the LIv players need right now is to play the pga tour in order to maintain their owgr points and have the other extensive opportunities for eligibility into majors (mainly by winning on the pga tour).

    Notice how A lot of guys LIv guys with major security aren’t as interested in these cases or returning to the pga tour. If cam young would have won the open, it’s very possible he makes the switch regardless of anything legal because he would have exemptions into all the majors for a while.

    It seems golf would avoid a lot of this drama if the majors just make qualifying changes based on golfs changing landscape, as in give LIv its fair share of qualifying spots into the majors.

    I just want to say again I understand there are some shady characters behind this investment and we all
    Love what the pga tour has done for 50 years; But ultimately these Liv people are trying to invest billions into the sport; and they have repeatedly stated they wanted to do it in a way that works in concert with the existing landscape. It is so so silly for anyone in golf not to want to work with all this money coming into the sport. It really is. Especially considering what this investment fund has already done for other majors sports around the globe, including women’s golf and especially European men’s pro golf.

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      Tom Edrington

      Baxter, if the LIV wants to get entangled in the mess, well, litigation can unveil stuff they don’t want the world to see, like those “contracts” — you may or may not recall that the Tour has been challenged over the years, the “not-for-profit” status was challenged and defended; There was a suit filed against the Senior Tour, that went nowhere; The fact that the LIV exists and Norman’s spouting how great and successful it is basically squashes his anti-trust hopes; If that’s the best LIV can muster, as you saw, their guy was a joke and they tried to set themselves up for success by filing in the most liberal of states and the most liberal section of the most liberal state and still got their butts handed to them…..embarrassing. If and when Cam Smith takes the money and runs, and I believe he will — that further weakens the case. The TOUR is NOT stopping anyone from going…..Cam misses Australia, he’s not an American and he can live there year-round; Norman’s been in his ear and probably promising to have four or five LIV events in Australia….at some point, LIV will expand its schedule to more events than these guys want to play and they’ll find they are contractually obligated; A lot of this has to do with their greedy agents collecting their cut of those big contracts…windfall for the management company. They do not want to work within the existing landscape, they are basically set on creating their own. And as Feherty himself said, the claim they are growing the game is pure “Bullshit” to quote David; Longtime friend of mine and a member at Inverness was at the deal in Toledo where Feherty told the truth.

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        baxter cepeda

        A lot of stuff here as usual. But it’s too early for me. I do have to say I believe LIv when this say this idiot lawyer misspoke. I never actually saw any coverage inside the court. So I only know this guy is an idiot is based on what I’m hearing From you and others.

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          Tom Edrington

          Idiots hire idiots…..nice choice of law firm by The Lamest Commissioner — my nickname fits as the Lamest Commissioner hired the lamest legal team……

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