Alan Shipnuck

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1,382 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3 Jul

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · It's the End of LIV Golf as We Knew It (and Trump Feels Fine) · 12 May 2026 podcast

But they've won this war.

You couldn't buy Rory or Scotty.

You couldn't buy a membership in Augusta National, which you see are craved.

The legacy of professional golf turns out not to be for sale.

People still care about the old tournaments and the old venues.

And

You can't just crash the party with a lot of money.

And of course, Trump's in the middle of all of it.

Because after he was reelected, one of the first things he did was try and call together the leaders in golf on both sides.

And I feel like he cared more about finding peace in professional golf than he did finding peace in Gaza.

He was way more emotionally invested in trying to solve this war in golf.

And in a roundabout way, he has.

It's not how he envisioned in some grand handshake on the South Lawn, but he's played a role.

You look at the alliances that the PIF and the Saudis have forged with Trump through Live Golf.

Live has been successful as going to these world capitals and conducting tournaments, whether it's been in Seoul, Korea, or it's been in Tokyo, it's been Mexico City.

And for one week, they take over the town and they entertain the political and the business elite.

And who knows how many deals have been cut for the PIF out of those weeks.

And maybe that justifies the outlay of $5 to $6 billion they've spent on Live Golf.

When Liv went to Adelaide a few years ago, the premier of southern Australia, you know, reaffirmed this long-term commitment that Australia has to, you know, supply Saudi Arabia with billions of dollars every year of beef and wheat and barley and all these things.

all these things so on one level if you can feed your population if you can distract them and you can you can prevent political unrest and regime change it's definitely worth john rahm's contract and so you can't judge live as a traditional business or traditional sports league because the goals were very different it wasn't necessarily to make money it wasn't necessarily to export the values of golf it was to win hearts and minds around the world it was to sports watch the saudi atrocities

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