PGA Championship Preview & Picks with Daniel Rapaport | 2024 PGA Championship Odds Narratives

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1. Great stuff Joe!

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2. I am obvious a LIV fan and I hope the winner will be one of Brooks, Rahm, Bryson, Cam Smith…and my wild card, Dean Burmester.

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3. What is 9th worth on LIV…?
   14 Major winner with 27 titles between them and you're asking that question?
   Keep in mind, Jon Rahm left the PGA just a few months ago as the best player in the world. He has not been able to win on LIV yet…does a move to another tour and a few months suddenly make the best just average…or is it maybe tougher on LIV than what the pro-PGA people want everybody to belief…?

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4. Tiger, Spieth, Cantlay and others should stop overestimating their own importance in golf for starters.
   What type of "deal" is there to be made…there's no deal. The PGA expects PIF to pay them but the PGA is in the weaker position compared to LIV. Should PIF pay the PGA so the latter can attempt to regain the monopoly they had…?
   Maybe it's time people start thinking like adults and see things as they are and not what they wish it to be.
   
   Tours should stay separate and it's up to each tour to make its tour better to retain or attract golfers to it.

   – LIV golfers have contracts. They can't just up and leave. If Golfer A got $100 mil for a 5-year contract and has only played 1 year, will he really pay back $80 mil to go play on the PGA tour?
   
   – The tours have different formats and LIV has a team element.
   
   – PGA made its bed when they accepted the SSG deal. How can anybody even expect Yasir to invest his "blood money" (what they called the PIF money) into PGA when LIV Golf is treated as it is? You can't have your bread buttered on both sides…PGA golfers made the decision to stay on PGA and now they should live with the consequences (and less money) or try to get a contract with LIV…easy as pie.
   
   – PGA has realized that their product is weaker without the top golfers that went to LIV. PGA has fewer viewers now. PGA won't be able to negotiate the same type of deals with advertisers, sponsors, and TV bosses now with those golfers not on their tour anymore. So they should also maybe start to accept that their role has diminished and beggars can't be choosers. The PGA needs LIV golfers….LIV doesn't need the PGA, LIV golfers just want to play in Majors.
   
   – LIV golfers can't just go and play on PGA events and the same goes for PGA golfers. The only thing in my mind that can happen is if the PGA and LIV negotiate events to be added in which the golfers from different tours can compete against each other. LIV golfers will not sign up to go play 30 to 40 weeks in a year again…just saying
   
   How: The Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup rotate. So I would suggest scrapping the Presidents Cup but not the team. Then you are left with the USA team, the European team, and the Presidents Cup team. Add a LIV team and the 4 teams can play against each other in a Ryder Cup-type tournament in a Round Robin at the end of the year to determine the winner. That would get enough viewers and push ratings. Maybe Yasir can be convinced to put up the money for such a tournament.
   – Maybe get PIF to take over the European Tour and attempt to make it as good as it was back in the 80's and 90's…independent from the PGA!
   – And lastly, the Majors should look at their criteria for invites. If the Majors can at least appear to be independent from PGA as they are supposed to be, and they invite the top 20/25 LIV golfers (excluding those with Major exemptions), the LIV fans might start supporting the majors again and this hate between the tours can start subsiding. The different tours should also have their own ranking system just like the PGA has the OWGR…and the Majors can use the tour's ranking to decide who they invite.

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5. What a combo! Let’s go!

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