Par4QC The day is coming very quickly, where they WILL be paying these 'contractors', just to show up.
You may very well be right. PGA Tour Golf like many other forms of entertainment is star driven. The marquee players move the needle and as has been much cliched Tiger is the needle.
So again, what the PGA Tour has to figure out is how to get the marquee players to play against each other more often to continue to move the needle. LIV Golf consists mostly of has been marquee players as of now, but could very well draw more top name players down the road.
None of us can predict the future, but it would seem that the PGA Tour will have to change to reflect the disruption LIV has induced. What form that takes is anyone's guess.
And to make myself clear. I'm not against competition for the PGA Tour per se. Normally competition is a good thing. I'm strongly against LIV Golf though for reasons I've stated ad nauseam.
But still, golf probably isn't immune to saturation. The only sport that seems to be immune to saturation is NFL football. lol But that's built into it intrinsically.
It's a weekly event with a build up all week to the games. You'd think it would've reached a saturation point with Sunday, Monday and Thursday games, but nope.