DID RORY MCILROY CHEAT? | Dope Stroke Podcast Show #97

LIV Golf is officially done. BC Partners pulled its $300 million lifeline after the league failed to lock in enough players for a 2027 relaunch, and professional golf is back down to two main tours. Dazzler walks through why LIV’s structure - tying almost every asset to individual player contracts instead of building anything lasting - made this outcome close to inevitable.
Then the lads get into Rory McIlroy’s two-shot penalty in Abu Dhabi for improving his lie out of a divot, and Dazzler makes the case that a less-loved player would have faced a very different reaction for the identical incident.
Along the way: a run of classic European Tour road stories from their twenties, how the Trott Shop has grown from a dirt field to a full tour-truck experience in six months, and an honest take on what the new Women’s TGL series still needs to nail down before it lands with fans the way the men’s version has.
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