{"id":263581,"date":"2025-04-04T16:25:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/sports\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-nick-faldo-slams-soft-liv-players-with-rebel-golf-league-at-1-5-billion-crossroads\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T16:25:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T16:25:58","slug":"rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-nick-faldo-slams-soft-liv-players-with-rebel-golf-league-at-1-5-billion-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/sports\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-nick-faldo-slams-soft-liv-players-with-rebel-golf-league-at-1-5-billion-crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"rewrite this title in Arabic Nick Faldo slams \u2018soft\u2019 LIV players with rebel golf league at $1.5 billion crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic <\/p>\n<p>Six-time major champion Nick Faldo is fed up with LIV Golf and its merger saga with the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersonally, I think they should just go and do their own thing,\u201d Faldo told talkSport.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund has financed LIV Golf since its inception in 2022, poaching some of the biggest names from the PGA Tour in the process such as Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson and Jon Rahm.<\/p>\n<p>LIV Golf runs 54-hole tournaments with no cuts, shotgun starts and teams. <\/p>\n<p>These funky rules and guaranteed contracts often worth more than $100 million for players cause a stark difference in competitiveness, according to Faldo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guys would fist pump, \u2018I made the cut, I still have a chance to win,\u2019\u201d Faldo said about golfers competing in the PGA Tour. \u201cThat\u2019s more important than, \u2018Oh, thanks very much. I\u2019ll waltz around for 54 holes and I\u2019ve got a guaranteed check.\u2019 That\u2019s not sport. It\u2019s not good for you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSport is bloody tough. The fear of failure is just as powerful as the quest to win. And I think when you\u2019re on a fail-free tour, you can\u2019t fail. It makes you go soft. I think some of those players have gone soft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned former PGA Tour stars turned \u201csoft\u201d LIV Golfers have won 98 PGA Tour events combined across their careers, with the 54-year-old Mickelson leading the pack at 45 wins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, none are eligible to compete in PGA Tour events as the two sides feud.<\/p>\n<p>The PGA Tour has made it clear that it prefers the world\u2019s top golfers to be competing in just one circuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This comes despite the PIF\u2019s recent offer of $1.5 billion for investment into PGA Tour Enterprises. <\/p>\n<p>The PGA Tour declined because it meant LIV Golf would remain intact. The PIF also wanted its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, to serve as co-chairman of PGA Tour Enterprises\u2019 board.<\/p>\n<p>PGA Tour president Jay Monahan has offered nothing but vague updates since first announcing the framework of a potential merger between PGA and LIV nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Not even President Trump entering the fray has been able to melt the icy thaw between the two sides. <\/p>\n<p>The PGA Tour isn\u2019t alone in its dissent with LIV Golf.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou couldn\u2019t go to your bank manager and say, \u2018This is my business model.\u2019 He\u2019d say, \u2018Excuse me? We\u2019ve only got this coming in and that going out?\u2019\u201d Faldo said. \u201cThe players are the luckiest things in the world \u2026 you\u2019ve got guys we\u2019ve hardly heard of, who\u2019ve never won, playing in $20 million tournaments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LIV Golf is playing at Trump National Doral this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Six-time major champion Nick Faldo is fed up with LIV Golf and its merger saga with the PGA Tour. \u201cPersonally, I think they should just go and do their own thing,\u201d Faldo told talkSport. Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund has financed LIV Golf since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263583,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263581\/revisions\/263583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}