{"id":416815,"date":"2026-01-16T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416815\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:50:10","slug":"old-ben-an-tweet-resurfaces-after-jump-to-liv-golf-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416815\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Ben An tweet resurfaces after jump to LIV Golf \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The moral of the story here \u2013 well, the moral of almost every 21st-century story \u2013 is to never post. At the very best, you\u2019ll get some likes, but more likely than not, you\u2019ll end being called a hypocrite by social media for changing your mind years after the initial take.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/bryson-dechambeau-liv-golf-pga-tour-negotiations-youtube-full-time-comments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryson DeChambeau says doing YouTube full-time is an \u2018incredibly viable option\u2019 as LIV Golf negotiations rumble on<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least that\u2019s how it\u2019s going for Byeong Hun An (better known as Ben An), the South Korean pro who recently decided to make the jump to LIV Golf for more money than the rest of us could ever dream of. Years ago, the winless vet expressed very little interest in LIV and said that it would take quite a bit of cash to get him to leave the PGA Tour. And, well, here we are.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f\u26f3\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LOOK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#LOOK<\/a> \u2014 Newly announced Korean Golf Club Captain Ben An voiced his opinion on LIV Golf 2 years ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ckk0ygDbyZ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ckk0ygDbyZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NUCLRGOLF\/status\/2011582793357410610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/exclusive-elvis-smylies-first-sit-down-interview-as-a-ripper-gc-player\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elvis Smylie\u2019s first sit-down interview as a Ripper GC player<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would not play LIV if no money was offered,\u201d he stated back in 2023. \u201cI like playing on PGA Tour. Don\u2019t see a reason for trying LIV without lots of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, An\u2019s not just leaving for a random LIV spot. He\u2019ll be the captain of the newly formed Korean Golf Club, partnered up with Younghan Song, Minkyu Kim and Danny Lee. It\u2019s a push by LIV Golf to reach the \u201cKorean market,\u201d and we\u2019re betting that this global play will come with \u201clots of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoining LIV Golf is a defining move for my future,\u201d An said. \u201cLIV Golf is becoming a leading force in the game and a truly global golf league with a clear vision for the future; I see a great opportunity to grow my career as captain of Korean Golf Club: To compete at the highest level, embrace a dynamic team environment, and help shape this new era of the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not surprising that X would resurface the now-deleted tweet for a bit of schadenfreude. That\u2019s basically all the app is at this point. We all know this, and now Ben An definitely knows this. Good luck getting an opinionated post out of him again.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The moral of the story here \u2013 well, the moral of almost every 21st-century story \u2013 is to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,219901,125859,755,138747,219902,14239,44,1747,44610,85,76226,13323],"class_list":["post-416815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ben-an","tag-byeong-hun-an","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-korean-golf-club","tag-liv-golf","tag-news","tag-pga-tour","tag-post","tag-sports","tag-the-loop","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}