Barry Svrluga

I'm really happy to be doing some golf because I so loved covering golf for so many years, and this is a way to dip my toe back into it.

They've been told that.

I mean, that's what Scott O'Neill, the CEO, has been told, that the Saudi money will support the rest of this season.

Now, there's reason to raise eyebrows about that because they've already postponed one event that was supposed to be in New Orleans a few weeks ago, and they say...

they're going to kick it to the fall, but there's no hard plans to do that.

You know, they're, they signed guys to nine figure contracts and they then promised $30 million purses on top of that.

And for since 2022, they delivered that with no way to offset that money because they just aren't bringing it in through sponsors.

I mean, four of their top six sponsors are

um, Saudi companies, it's basically inside dealing.

I mean, um, they're, they're not propped up independently.

And this guy, O'Neill, um, is saying, no, I've got these great value to sell to investors.

And my phone is ringing off the hook and people, you know, the value is in these teams.

And that just is, is laughable on the face of it because you can't, you couldn't walk down the street, um,

in a crowded place, say the national mall on a spring Saturday and find anybody who could tell you who are the four members of the crushers.

What is the cliques logo?

I'm, I'm, I'm holding up the logo of the Southern hogs or whatever.

And nobody, nobody knows anything about these live teams.

So, you know,

Maybe they exist beyond this year.

A lot of these guys are under contract beyond this year.