What If The PGA Merger Goes Something Like This FanFic Exodus?

Michael Francis
9 min readJun 7, 2023

This one goes out to all my people hoping this PGA nonsense doesn’t just get ignored and accepted.

(This story requires you have a background on the LIV and PGA tour feud for the past year. Check back and I’ll write on in a day or two, or look for one online — I’m sure many good ones exist. It’s worth the effort, I promise).

What if we just, for fun, play this out into a winning scenario? We’ve all heard the news, that the PGA is going to be merging with LIV. That all the posturing about the horrors of dirty blood money can be ignored, for the right price. That if you made the right people rich enough, suddenly all the concerns become those of yesteryear. And those who were loyal to you get hurt the most.

What if there’s a dream that would make good guys like Tony Finau laugh? (Image Credit: Desert News)

This absolutely fucks over and hangs out to dry the best golfers, the average golfers and, perhaps the most, the barely pro golfers. I’m not talking best talent either — Dustin Johnson got paid just fine and his values ain’t best — but the best of men. The ones who were willing to put some part of their values ahead of a big paycheck. Whether you agree or not with the repercussions of a relationship with the Saudis…

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