LIV Golf’s deathbed with Saudi PIF and Yasir out, McLaren golf club costs, and FBF on Doral
4/30/20261 hr 18 min
LIV Golf might've learned something from Andy's weekend of garage sales as they're looking for buyers ahead of the 2027 season. Andy joins Brendan! from a very empty house for this First of the Month Recording packed with - you guessed it! - more LIV news from the golf story of the year. As first reported by Josh Carpenter, Yasir Al-Rumayyan is OUT as Chairman of LIV Golf, leaving his post on the league's Board of Directors as the Saudi PIF pulls its funding at the end of 2026. LIV replaced Yasir with two new board members on Thursday, one of whom has a long history of joining companies cleaning up the pieces after filing for bankruptcy. Andy and Brendan bat around some LIV takes, including what value, if any, Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm might actually bring to the PGA Tour if they were to return. Should LIV fold or look drastically different moving forward, it's decided that the biggest winner could be the DP World Tour with players such as David Puig and Tyrrell Hatton playing there full-time next year. Meanwhile, the PGA Tour is playing this week for another $20 million purse at Trump Doral, where True American Patriot Cameron Young broke the course record on a day with no wind in Miami. Justin Rose debuted his shiny new McLaren clubs en route to a disappointing score, but Brendan is especially appalled at the retail price of these new irons. In yet another example of wild money being spent on golf for unknown levels of return, Andy and Brendan then read a statement from Motor City Golf Club that accompanied a logo release for their first TGL season in 2027. After a Playoff Basketball Minute, Kevin Van Valkenburg stops by to share a B. Draddy Flashback Friday about an International Presidents Cup legend winning at Doral.
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First 90 secondsBrendan Porath· Host0:00
Now, the Shotgun Start in golf is full of mathematics. Um, there's a lot of, a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work. So I'm gonna demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a Shotgun Start here.
Speaker 10:13
And here we go.
Speaker 2· Host0:16
All right, all right, all right. Gentlemen, start your engines.
Brendan Porath· Host0:27
[upbeat music] Greetings, and welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is May 1st. Andy, how we doing?
Andy Johnson· Host0:47
Brandon, what a great day. First of the month recording. I mean, all kinds of stuff is happening. Uh, sorry for the echoey recording here. I'm, uh, I'm in a very empty house.
Brendan Porath· Host1:01
You're in an empty house. Yeah? What's going on? Is something happening? Why... You've got people picking up desks on your front lawn. You've got garage sales, and now you have an empty house. Is something happening? If I'm putting- Well, we're- Are you liquidating?
Andy Johnson· Host1:14
... moving out of the house.
Brendan Porath· Host1:15
Okay. All right. All right. Are you Liv- Are you like Liv? You're just everything must go, we're done, we're trying to find new structure, new management to, to... 'Cause you just had, you know, somebody leave you, the funds left. What's going on here?
Andy Johnson· Host1:29
Yeah, the- we