Max Homa shared a joke about the Anthony Kim information Friday night time, and Brandel Chamblee responded.
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Ever since information broke of Anthony Kim’s potential return to professional golf, hypothesis has run rampant on social media. So on Friday night time, PGA Tour star Max Homa determined to have some enjoyable with it, one thing Golf Channel/NBC analyst Brandel Chamblee took exception to.
First, some background. On Thursday night time, GOLF’s personal Dylan Dethier completely reported that former PGA Tour professional Anthony Kim was significantly contemplating making a return to professional golf. But Kim, who final performed on Tour in 2012, nonetheless has one large choice to make: the place his return will happen.
Anthony Kim plotting return to professional golf after decade-long disappearance
Dylan Dethier
According to Dethier’s report, each the PGA Tour and LIV are negotiating with Kim, hoping he decides to make his return on their enjoying platforms. Which brings us to Homa.
On Friday night time, Homa took to X to poke enjoyable at Kim’s large choice, implying that LIV has a a lot stronger negotiating place to win over AK than the PGA Tour.
Homa wrote:
“Here’s a behind the scenes scoop of the PGA Tour and LIV negotiating with Anthony Kim to make a comeback:
PGA Tour: Plz come play on our Tour
LIV: Plz come play on our Tour and likewise right here is 500 million {dollars}”
Homa’s submit was clearly a joke, however it is very important level out simply how exaggerated Homa’s determine is for a way a lot LIV is providing Kim.
Long gone are the times of LIV forking over a whole lot of tens of millions of {dollars} to gamers simply to indicate up (Jon Rahm apart), particularly with a possible settlement between the PGA Tour and PIF within the offing.
According to Dethier’s sources, the primary sticking level in Kim’s choice is how greatest to take care of a $10 million insurance coverage coverage he has that will likely be voided if he performs professional golf once more. LIV is providing to cowl that $10 million determine for Kim outright. It’s an enormous upfront sum, however nothing just like the $500 million Homa referenced.
The PGA Tour, alternatively, is engaged on extra artistic options for Kim to compete with LIV financially, which you’ll learn all about in Dethier’s report right here.
Upon seeing Homa’s X submit, Chamblee determined to make a prolonged response of his personal.
Chamblee has lengthy been important of LIV and its Saudi Arabian traders on ethical grounds, so he took the format of Homa’s submit and added his personal factors to argue that the PGA Tour can be a superior touchdown spot for Kim.
“PGA tour: Plz come play our tour and be part of one thing greater than your self; reconnect with the viewers that invested in you and actually assist develop the sport.
Liv: Here’s a ton of cash to assist a dictatorial assassin faux he cares about you and the sport of golf so he can launder his popularity; by no means thoughts that you just’ll be turning your back on the foundations of golf that gave you a begin and the tour that gave you a stage, simply say, as we command you to, that you’re rising the sport.”
Homa supplied no additional response, although he was just a little busy. The subsequent morning he needed to get up try a repeat victory on the Farmers Insurance Open.
