Oooofff<\/p>\n
LIV Golf finds itself in a crisis at the minute, with the Louisiana leg of the tour cancelled – supposedly because of hot weather and the football World Cup – while the Saudis have also confirmed that they will be pulling their funding at the end of the current season.<\/p>\n
Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell is part of the rebranded LIV Smash GC team, which is now named Oklahoma GC, with captain Talor Gooch, Harold Varner III and Jason Kokrak.<\/p>\n
Footage was shared of G-Mac talking about his ‘new’ team, and watchers were cringing at the ‘LinkedIn-speak’ of the statement and the self-seriousness at which he spoke about a league that few fans are particularly passionate about.<\/p>\n
Not G-Mac’s finest moment<\/p>\n
He said: “You know, for Taylor to be leading the first sort of US-centric kind of geographically located team here in Oklahoma, I think it’s extra special.<\/p>\n
“He creates a culture, he creates an energy for a team. I’m proud to be part of this team.<\/p>\n
“And I think leaning on Taylor’s connections and his routes in the community here I think bring a fan base and being able to give back to the community philanthropically, just all the levels, all the things that you need to build foundationally, build a great team, I think we’ll be leaning on this guy.<\/p>\n
“And like I say, very proud to be part of it.”<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThis is incredibly meaningful to me. Oklahoma is where I grew up and where I learned how to compete. To now represent this state through OKGC and bring that identity with us around the world is something I\u2019m really proud of. We\u2019re building a team that people can connect with, one that reflects the pride, resilience and mindset of Oklahoma everywhere we go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oooofff LIV Golf finds itself in a crisis at the minute, with the Louisiana leg of the tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-428970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}