💀 LIV Is Leaking Players and Fore Play Already Wrote the Obituary
Thomas Pieters and Charles Howell III are the latest to bolt. Both have reportedly ruled out playing in LIV 2.0 as the deadline to sign players closes in. Golf.com has the pair eyeing DP World Tour futures, and Golf Monthly calls it “another blow.” That’s a polite way of saying the lifeboats are full and the band is still playing (source).
Then the Fore Play crew dropped an episode literally called “LIV is Dead.” It reacts to the news that the DP World Tour won’t allow LIV players to compete next season, and it also looks back on their “favorite LIV memories.” A MEMORIAL SLIDESHOW. For a league that technically still has a pulse?? (source)
Now notice the order of operations here. Pieters and Howell are reportedly eyeing the DP World Tour while the DP World Tour is reportedly closing the door on LIV guys. So the plan is to leave first and figure out the paperwork later?? Bold. Maybe even smart. Nobody wants to be the last one holding a contract when the lights go out.
The same crew also did a whole second episode, “WHY LIV GOLF FAILED,” after Rory called it “half of a good idea.” A league with BILLIONS behind it, and the autopsy headline is “half.” That might be the most expensive sentence in golf history (source).
🚨 PGA Tour Dumps $4M Sponsor Over Federal Fraud Allegations
The PGA Tour cut ties with ONEflight, the $4 MILLION sponsor of the Myrtle Beach Classic, which is facing federal fraud allegations. The new tournament director says the 2027 event is going ahead as planned.
The Tour that will fine you for a late cart-path wave somehow didn’t spot the fraud allegations until the feds did?? Great vetting, everyone. Props to Myrtle Beach for saying “we’re fine, relax,” because that’s exactly what the people who are not fine say (source).
🎄 It’s OCTOBER 16 and Golf.com Already Has Two Holiday Gift Guides
One is about shoes and one is about “little things you hate buying,” so enjoy fall for roughly nine more minutes, we’re cooked (source).
🔥 Jon Rahm Walks Away From the Rest of His LIV Money
Details of Rahm’s separation agreement are out. He’ll give up ALL the remaining money on his massive contract to make a clean break (source).
Okay, actual opinion time, no jokes. This is the most damning LIV story of the year, and it isn’t close. Nobody walks away from that kind of money unless the money stopped buying what he wanted. That’s the whole problem with a league built on guarantees. The check gets you to sign, but it can’t buy relevance, a clear path in the majors, or a reason for anyone to care in October. Rahm just told every other player the freedom is worth more than the contract, and that’s the exit strategy now. We saw this coming when he was weighing a $500 million decision he couldn’t un-make.
🌨️ Alaska Is the Worst State for Golf Travel
A new study ranked all 50 states for a golf getaway and Alaska finished dead last, though apparently not because the golf is bad. Imagine losing a ranking and the footnote is “but the course is great” (source).
⛳ Pros Face the “Tightest Golf Course I’ve Ever Played”
The DP World India Championship is at the Lodhi Course at Delhi Golf Club, and the field is describing it as SUFFOCATING. Golf.com’s headline carries a player quote calling it the tightest course they’ve ever played.
Three players, including recent Open de España winner Grant Forrest, withdrew before round two. The blurb gave no reasons, so we’re not guessing (source).
Honestly, good. Pros spend the whole year bombing driver at fairways the size of airport runways, so make them think for a week. “Tight” isn’t a complaint, it’s a golf course doing its job (source).
🤖 Golf Monthly Built an AI to Pick Your Next Clubs
Your slice will remain completely unaffected, but at least now it’ll be confidently wrong in a new voice (source).
🛍️ Kevin Kisner Launches “Hobby Golf,” Because You Can’t Just Have a Hobby Anymore
Fore Play and Barstool are rolling out Hobby Golf, a new line with Kevin Kisner “celebrating the greatest hobby in the world.” The shop link is in the description (of course).
It’s giving “merch for your personality.” The pitch is that golf is a hobby, which is true, and that you need to buy a hat to prove you have one, which is the oldest trick in the golf business. It might be a perfectly nice hat. But if the hobby were truly great, it wouldn’t need a drop (source).
🧪 MyGolfSpy Admits Its Test Winner Isn’t Right for Everyone
They actually published “3 Times Our 2026 Test Winner Wasn’t Right For Everyone.” It’s the most honest sentence in gear media this year, so read it before you buy the “winner” (source).
🥹 r/golf Posters Get Their First Birdie and First Eagle
One poster got a FIRST birdie after years of watching their wife’s golf-obsessed family from the sidelines and barely touching a range. Another got a first-ever eagle “just when I needed it in life,” with the caption “Golf gods don’t always hate us.”
No jokes here. This is the good stuff. Every golfer remembers the first one, and for most of us it’s still the best shot we’ve ever hit. Meanwhile the rest of us are still waiting on ours (source).
That’s the week. May your fairways be tight, your sponsors be audited, and your LIV memorial slideshow stay short. See you next Friday.
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