LIV Golf’s telecast opens by scolding media, then quickly is hit with lengthy technical issues
The Mexico telecast opened with commentators telling media reports were wrong and then, after showing several shots, were hit with technicaly difficulties for a long, long time.
The weird week with LIV Golf got weirder. As if that was possible. Late Tuesday reports started to leak saying that Saudi Arabia’s PIF was going to stop funding the LIV Golf League.
Its CEO Scott O’Neil sent an email to players saying that was not the case and that, as a startup, there are always unexpected issues and that they plan on continuing this week in Mexico City and through the end of the year. Many were anxious to see how it’d go Thursday at Chapultepec Golf Club, if all 57 players would play, if there would be anyone who withdrew. Everyone showed, everyone played.
But then it got weird. In the opening commentators Arlo White and David Feherty discussed the reports of their league’s demise. “There’s still some writers and broadcasters that take pride in their work, but this generation has spawned a bunch of fast typists that consider themselves to be experts,” Feherty said.
“And evidently they’re not. ” White chimed in: “Reports of the imminent demise of the LIV Golf League were, in fact, greatly exaggerated. It must be exhausting trying to will the LIV Golf League out of existence.