Wesley Bryan suspended by PGA Tour

How in the world is this a “story”?

He was told what would happen if he did something, did it, then what he told would happen, happened…..

Bob Harig is the most pro LIv major golf reporter there is and even he understands how simple this all is

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If the tour didn’t have this rule why would anyone pay rights fees to them? They could always just easily go right to the players

The PGA tour has granted Bryan full waivers for all of his YouTube stuff the past year. How anyone thinks they should allow him to make content for a competitor is beyond me

Grant has had zero status or standing with the tour ever

Wesley did

The PGA tour met with all parties before the content with LIV and let them all know where they stood

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French noted that all of the creators were informed through a third party that there was potential for disciplinary action from the PGA Tour, including being excluded from any PGA Tour-affiliated events and content going forward. Multiple sources told French those threats were later withdrawn except for the potential disciplinary notice to Bryan.

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Wesley still has status. It’s former winner category, but he still technically has status and has made a few starts this season.

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It’s no different than any sports league. The nba owns Steph curry’s media rights. He can’t play basketball on you tube or outside of the nba in a televised situation. The tour could not charge for tv rights and sponsorship without rules such as that

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That's 100% not true though so his take is dumb as hell.

Exactly what should have happened.

Most YouTube players aren’t affiliated with the PGA tour. They are 100% free to film content with either and the PGA has been fine with that.

Great posts. And those nba players have to get consent in order to play as part of their agreement, which is exactly for the same as the Tour. Without consent they would be in breach and face consequence. Up to this point Bryan has received approval from the Tour for his YouTube content

Same scenario

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If you let Grant play in the Baracuda, you just admitted you had no standing to suspend Piot for a year before he ever had a tour card.

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Except written in their actual bylaws it says they have the right to suspend anyone who plays LIv events regardless of status. They absolutely could have suspended all the content creators if they wanted to. They decided not to

It seems clear the tour views played as

1. Those with status

2. Those pursuing status

3. Those without status and not pursuing


Everyone those are logical categories if they didn’t have an emotional investment

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Except written in their actual bylaws it says they have the right to suspend anyone who plays LIv events regardless of status. They absolutely could have suspended all the content creators if they wanted to. They decided not to

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...and that's going to frick them in a Court of law when they arbitrarily decide when to suspend non PGA members for doing the same thing. You can look at the how the NCAA arbitrarily granting waivers worked out for them in federal court. I'll save you some time...not well.

I know you love to be the heel/contrarian with everything, but you're not going to win this argument pride. It's best you stop digging in

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3. Those without status and not pursuing

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So Piot. He never pursued PGA status yet was suspended from the PGA Tour. What you meant to say is the PGA is determining who should and shouldn't be suspended by whether or not the player in question may be good enough to achieve full status on the PGA Tour, in their opinion. Because that is the only logical explanation not to suspend Grant or any of the other content creators not named Wesley who competed in the event.

They've banned non- pro golfers from competing in pro ams who have done business with LIV. Let's just call a spade a spade here. The PGA look like idiots in this situation. It wasn't like Wesley even competed in a LIV Tournament. He competed in a content creators event that was on Grant Horvat's youtube channel. It's pretty ridiculous they care. They suspended a guy with partial status and basically told him, you can't play in most of our events, but you can't play in theirs either and not just their official events, but any slapdick 9 hole youtube event they put their name on.