{"id":723707,"date":"2026-08-02T01:58:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T01:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723707\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T01:58:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T01:58:26","slug":"ian-poulters-pants-louder-than-liv-golf-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723707\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Poulter&#8217;s Pants Louder Than LIV Golf Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of LIV Golf\u2019s most popular social media posts this weekend featured <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/livgolf_league\/status\/2081350945351303298\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ian Poulter breaking out the Union Jack pants<\/a> for Majesticks GC\u2019s home game event on the LIV schedule. Of course, the viral trousers immediately became one of the more notable contributions from Poulter and the Majesticks to the LIV season. And that\u2019s fine, it\u2019s good to be cheeky, have some fun, and display some character.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s not fine is that people care more about the pants than the fact that the Majesticks are, and have been since LIV\u2019s creation four years ago, an abject failure. They languished in DFL, 13th out of 13 teams going into Sunday\u2019s final round. They\u2019ve taken up residence alongside Korean Golf Club (RIP, Iron Heads GC) at the bottom of the standings throughout LIV\u2019s existence.<\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s soccer manager Thomas Tuchel was widely ripped and shamed in a wave of recriminations for his decisions in the team\u2019s loss to Argentina at the recent World Cup. If LIV had truly succeeded, and mattered, perhaps there would have been some passion about the Majesticks\u2019 sorry state on the field of play as they came home. Poulter would be mocked, booed, ridiculed for playing dress-up while his team fails to do anything of substance. But this isn\u2019t about substance, is it? So we have passion for pants over performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of LIV Golf\u2019s most popular social media posts this weekend featured Ian Poulter breaking out the Union&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-723707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}