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Broken Flesh is an American extreme metal band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 2004. The band has released three studio albums, Forever In Flames in 2009, Warbound in 2013, and Broken Flesh in 2015. They have released one extended play, Stripped, Stabbed, and Crucified, in 2012.

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Fighting Flesh

Going to war with broken flesh.

By Justin Mabee

Broken Flesh is a Christian death metal band from Oklahoma. Recently, we got together with the guys to talk about their history as a band, and their newest album, Warbound . We talk about where they came from and the mission for their latest release, and they spill some of their crazy stories from the road.

So tell me a little bit of your history as Broken Flesh. Kevin: We actually formed in October of 2004, so we’ve been going for about nine years now. This is our fourth recording: We’ve done a demo, a live demo and we’ve done a full-length album that came out in September 2009 called Forever In Flames. Then we did an EP in 2012 called Stripped, Stabbed and Crucified , and now the new one, Warbound . Lopez and I are the original members of the band. We started the band with another guy named Steve Maxwell. There have been a lot of lineup changes, but I’ve got to say from being in the band from the beginning to now, this is the most solid lineup we’ve ever had – everybody’s on-board with doing ministry first, and then music second. It’s great to be in this band.

Where did the band name come from? Kevin: Basically, we need to die to ourselves. We need to die to our flesh to allow Christ to dwell within us, to really come forth and achieve what God has for us to do.

What would you say is your mission as a band? What does success look like for Broken Flesh? Jacob: To further the kingdom of heaven. Kevin: Seeing Behemoth get saved.

What sets Broken Flesh apart from other bands out there doing death metal? The metal scene gets pretty saturated with the same thing over and over again, so what sets you guys apart? Kevin: I don’t know if anything sets us apart, but it’s kind of the way I feel. I read an interview with Webster from Cannibal Corpse today, and what’s cool about death metal is that each band tries to outdo what’s been done before it. That’s what keeps death metal fresh, each band trying to outdo what they’re into, what they’ve heard and what they like to listen to. In the realm of death metal, it keeps everybody pressing forward to be the next heavy thing, the next fast thing, the next brutal thing. So I guess that’s about it. We’re all very competitive.

How do you keep things fresh when it comes to death metal? Does it come through songwriting, or the musical ability? Kevin: Well, we build songs. Instead of just writing tunes, we actually build songs. We try to write a real heavy riff and then write a riff that’s more brutal and heavier than that one is, and so on and so forth. Then, we’ve got a drummer that tries to play so hard, so fast and so crazy that it’s hard to keep up with so it makes it really easy. Jacob: Yeah he’s really good at doing things like that.

You talked about building songs. Is that usually how it works with songwriting? Do you all write together? Kevin: We all will be in the room together; all the writing is basically done together. I’ll get the guitar and start writing riffs, and sometimes Jacob will pick up the guitar and start writing riffs. So we’ll sit down and yea or nay all of them, you know? Some of them will last two or three months before we ax them. We’re very picky and very critical of everything we do and everything we write. It takes a while to write a song, actually.

Speaking to that a little, how does the newest record fit into that? How does it differ from your previous material? Is it a concept record? Jacob: As far as Warbound differing from anything else that we’ve done so far, we really just tried to go as brutally over-the-top as we could. As far as finding a niche in “slow brutality” versus “fast brutality,” specifically off of Warbound, we went a little more slam death metal, exploring the more doom-style side of brutality. Yet, we still tried to keep the core of everything fast. So I would say it differs in that way.

Is there a main theme around Warbound ? Kevin: There’s really not a main theme around the record, but the theme around the title track is about the return of Christ as he’s portrayed in Revelation 20. The way he comes back with varnished bronze skin, with white shining from the holes in his hands and his side, with fire in his eyes and crowns upon his head, with a robe dipped in blood, riding on a white horse. We kind of added our own imagination, and got hooked up with this really awesome artist named John Zigg, and he put it together for us. Jacob: The album artwork was done well after the songs and lyrics were put together. It was kind of an afterthought.

What are you most excited about with Warbound ? Kevin: For me, the lyrical content on the album — what it’s got to say. With the hard copies of the CD, there is a lyric booklet inside, and I guess that’s the most exciting part because our lyrics are very much based around the Bible. A lot of times, the lyrics are just straight Bible scripture, verse-for-verse, from certain books of the Bible. The Bible says God’s Word never goes out and returns void, so that’s the most exciting thing about this to us, as well as with every recording we’ve done. God’s Word is going out and being spoken over these people whether they realize it or not.

Do you have any favorite tracks from the new album? Jacob: For me, probably “Acrid Stench”. Josh: Probably “Acrid Stench.” “Scorned” is one of my favorites, as well.

I saw online that you’ve been signed before, and now you’re independent. Which do you prefer? What are your thoughts on the advantages of being on a label? Josh: If we could get picked up by a label that would actually help us, we’d probably prefer Nuclear Blast or Metal Blade. We don’t want to do it unless someone’s going to take us to the next level.

Is that why things didn’t work out last time? Kevin: No, that whole thing kind of fell apart last time. Don’t want to get into personal reasons, but no hard feelings from us towards them, but sometimes people fall on hard times. But it’s all good.

Switching gears a little, do any of you guys have families, with kids or anything? Jacob: I’m married, but I do not have any kids yet. Kevin: I’m married. I’ve been married for 21 years, and I’ve got a son and 3 daughters, and they range from 17 to 27.

So how do you guys keep up with your families, especially being on tour and away from them? Kevin: We don’t get to tour too often. Being independent, and being as fixated as we are on preaching the gospel – even (among) Christian music scenes – it’s really held us back as far as how far we can go. So we’ve just done what we can do, and thank God there’s Facebook! We’ve got a following in Brazil, Columbia, Chile, all over Europe, and some parts of Asia, and we’ve never even been there! So we’re really thankful for that. God is good, though. I’ve got a wife and kids who are very understanding because we’ve been practicing in my house for the whole existence of this band. It’s very loud. We don’t turn down and do an unplugged version of Broken Flesh or anything. It’s full-bore, every practice.

So no acoustic sessions! Jacob: Nope, no joke!

What are some of your influences? Kevin: Life, man. Jacob: Yeah, just life. As far as bands go, that’s going to be a really long answer. Kevin: All of us like Suffocation. Jacob: That’s one of the main things you could say. Probably the most common ground we have is the band Suffocation. Kevin: Me, personally, I like Slayer and old Metallica. You know, I mean before they quit. Before The Black Album.

So no St. Anger for you? Kevin: No. No, no, no.

Actually I have a confession to make. St. Anger was the first Metallica album I ever heard. Kevin: Are you serious? Josh: Dang, dude, I’m sorry. Kevin: Hey man, I got to see Metallica open for Ozzy in 1986 when Cliff Burton was still alive. The Master of Puppets tour. That’s like bragging rights for me. It was awesome.

Has music always been a part of everyone’s lives? Like even as kids? Josh: Yeah, it’s been something I’ve just kind of grown up with. Jacob and my dad got us into playing guitar when we were really little, and he introduced us to Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and ZZ Top. Jacob: He really got our roots going. Music has always been a pretty big part of my life. The only reason I have anything to do with Broken Flesh – I’ve been in the band for four years – was actually inspired by Lopez. He was my drum instructor when I was 17 years old. He was like, “You should come check out my death metal band sometime.” So I went and checked them out in this little hole-in-the-wall ministry center out in central Oklahoma, and I’ve been hanging with them ever since. Somewhere along the line, God decided it was time for me to be a part of it, so that’s how it worked out. Kevin: I got into music by the time I was 6 or 7 years old. My grandpa played guitar, and he got me started at an early age, so I started messing with it. I didn’t want to hear (him play), though, because it was all about country and I don’t want anything to do with country. But by the time I was 16 or 17, I started playing on my own, trying to figure out how to play heavy music, with no instructor. So I’ve been into it my whole life. Jacob: Lopez, though, we rescued him from a Polka band out in Sweden (laughs). We made him play death metal drums and he hasn’t been the same since we let him listen to Godsmack.

Are they telling the truth or are they lying, Lopez? Lopez: They’re full of it (laughs) .

Talking a bit about the bands that are your influences, what have you thought of them coming back and doing music again? Like, Black Sabbath just put out a new album. Kevin: Have you listened to that yet?

I haven’t, no. Kevin: Well I wouldn’t run out and buy it (laughs). The music is great. I’ve been an Ozzy fan for a whole lot of years, man, and it’s good to see him up and doing something. He sounds like he’s trying to get back into the game. You can actually understand the lyrics. It sounds like old Black Sabbath. The production is great, but the lyrical content is the darkest stuff they’ve ever written.

If you had the ability to change something about the music industry, what would it be? Jacob: That Christianity would be judged a lot more strictly, and it wouldn’t be so freely accepted to call (your band) a Christian band. Kevin: I’ve got to agree with that. Being a local Oklahoma act, Lopez and I have been opening for bands together for eight years, for national acts like Cannibal Corpse. I’ve played in bands before this one, and over all the years, every time we’ve opened for a major Christian act, we get treated like complete dirt. But when we open for a secular act, we get treated like brothers. It’s really hard to understand. Jacob: It’s hard to understand, because I thought the whole idea was that it was like a family. It’s really hard to even understand the reasons why. … If it were judged a lot more accordingly to what the Bible says a Christian is supposed to look like, then it seems like you would have a lot less posers. Kevin: More action and less talk.

Last question: Any outrageous or embarrassing moments from tour? Josh: I’ve got one. It’s a restaurant. Bojangles. Do not eat at Bojangles in North Carolina before a show (laughs). Jacob: Kevin straight up threw up in his mouth while we were playing and had to swallow it so he could finish the song. Kevin: And I don’t chew very well so I had to chew it back up again before I could swallow it, so it wasn’t any fun, man. Josh: Oh, and at this most recent Cornerstone, we were playing on Sean Michel’s Arkansas Stage, and it’s kind of wobbly. Jacob, who’s about 6’ 3”, was stomping around on stage and knocked Kevin’s double stack straight over, like, eight feet down to the ground. Jacob: It was two full stacks. I brought it down like Goliath, man. Kevin: It was an earthquake on the stage. Josh: Almost squished the dudes from Harp & Lyre. Lopez: I kept playing (laughs). Jacob: Yes! He kept playing. Kevin: You could hear a pin drop because the tent was packed. Jacob: I remember Kevin threw his guitar up, and the only thing he said was, “Well, now that’s over, we can talk about Jesus.”

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Broken Flesh , the brutal death metal band from Oklahoma, have announced that they will be dropping off the highly anticipated Hasten Revelation Tour .

Kevin Tubby , one of the band’s founding members and current vocalist and guitarist, currently has cardiomyopathy which prevents him from getting “fired up” at live performances. However, it is a treatable condition and he hopes to be good by the summer of 2020.

The Hasten Revelation Tour will continue with the lineup of Cardiac Rupture , Taking the Head of Goliath , Abated Mass of Flesh , and Crimson Thorn . The tour will also feature guest performances by Crushing the Deceiver , Benevolence , My Place Was Taken , and the legendary Living Sacrifice.

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Broken Flesh is a brutal death metal band that originated out of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the United States. The band was created by Kevin Tubby on Vocals and Guitars and Brandon Lopez on Drums. [1] The band has released three studio albums, an EP, and three singles and have been signed with Sullen Records , Luxor Records, and Warclub Records . The band has performed several shows, including festivals at Exodo Festival, Audiofeed Festival, and Rockstar Energy’s Mayhem Festival. [2]

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Broken Flesh was formed out of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the United States, started in 2004. The band was created by Guitarist Kevin Tubby and Drummer Brandon Lopez with Guitarist Steve Maxwell joining on. [1] [3] Tubby took care of Vocals and Lead Guitars, while Maxwell took over Rhythm Guitars and Bass, with Lopez only handling Drums. [1] By 2005, Taylor Strader joined on as their Bassist for a brief time. [1] [4] However, by 2006 both Strader and Maxwell had departed from the lineup, with Strader leaving slightly earlier than Maxwell. The band, a duo, featured Tubby performing Vocals, Guitars, and Bass and Lopez on Drums. [1]

In 2007, Roy Limon and James Hendrix joined the band as Rhythm Guitarist and Bassist respectively. [1] Limon departed before the year was over, with Maxwell returning as Rhythm Guitarist. In 2009, Hendrix departed as well, with Maxwell taking over the Bassist position on top of it. The three recorded their debut album, Forever in Flames , with Lopez on Drums, Tubby on Vocals and Lead Guitars, and Maxwell on Rhythm Guitars. [5] The album was released via Sullen Records . [6]

Maxwell departed once again and the lineup stabilized with Tubby and Lopez adding Vocalist Ricky Puckett and Bassist Jacob Mathes. [4] The band recorded an EP, Stripped, Stabbed, and Crucified , and released it independently in 2012. [7] Puckett departed in 2012. [8] Following his departure, Mathes took over the Vocalist position, with his brother, Joshua, taking over his former position as Bassist. Steve Giddens also briefly joined as a Rhythm Guitarist. [4] With the lineup of Tubby, the Mathes brothers, and Lopez, the band recorded their sophomore album, Warbound , which debuted in 2013 independently, initially, with it later being re-released by Luxor Records. [9]

On September 4, 2015, the band released their third album, Broken Flesh , via Luxor with the same lineup, with the addition of Rhythm Guitarist Dakota Whiteside of All Have Sinned . [2] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] On March 30, 2016, Jacob and Joshua Mathes departed from the band. [15] Tubby again took over the Vocalist position, with the band searching for a new Bassist, eventually settling on Kyle Fitzgerald. [16] The band performed at Audiofeed Festival in 2016, with Adam Cook of A Hill to Die Upon performing Vocals. [17] By February 2017, he departed, being replaced by Bryan Nikkel, a former bandmate of Tubby's. [18] [19]

The band released two singles off of their upcoming album, "Wretched" and "Bloodlust". [1] In mid-2019, it was announced that the band would perform on the second annual Hasten Revelation Tour, alongside Taking the Head of Goliath , Cardiac Rupture, Abated Mass of Flesh , and Crimson Thorn for dates set between March 7-14, 2020. [20] The band had previously performed as a special guest for the tour, alongside Taking the Head of Goliath, Abated Mass of Flesh, Death Requisite , and A Hill to Die Upon . [20] The band is currently working on their fourth studio album.

Members [ ]

• Kevin Tubby - Vocals (2004-2010, 2016-present), Lead Guitars (2004-present), Rhythm Guitars (2006-2007, 2010-2012, 2012-2015, 2016-present)
• Bryan Nikkel - Bass (2017-present)
• Brandon Lopez - Drums (2004-present)
• Adam Cook - Vocals (2016)
• Jake Martin - Vocals (2019)
• Ricky Puckett - Vocals (2010-2012)
• Jacob "Jake" Mathes - Vocals (2013-2016), Bass (2011-2013)
• Steve Maxwell - Rhythm Guitars (2004-2006, 2008-2009), Bass (2004-2005, 2005, 2009)
• Roy Limon - Rhythm Guitars (2007)
• Steve Giddens - Rhythm Guitars, Backing Vocals (2012)
• Dakota Whiteside - Rhythm Guitars (2015-2016)
• Taylor Strader - Bass (2005)
• James Hendrix - Bass (2007-2009)
• Joshua Mathes - Bass, Backing Vocals (2013-2016)
• Kyle Fitzgerald - Bass (2016-2017)

Discography [ ]

Studio albums

• Forever in Flames (2009)
• Warbound (2013)
• Broken Flesh (2015)
• Stripped, Stabbed, and Crucified (2012)
• "Cries of the Dead" (2015)
• "Bloodlust" (2017)
• "Wretched" (2017)

Compilation appearances

• The Killing Fields (2011)
• Christian Deathcore: Volume 2 (2013)
• God's Metal Militia Volume 1 (2014)
• Christian Deathcore: Volume 3 (2014)
• United We Skate Benefit Comp - Vol. 5 Metal (2015)
• Christian Deathcore: Volume 4 (2015)
• Christian Deathcore: Volume 5 (2017)

References [ ]

• ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 " Broken Flesh ". Encyclopedia Metallum. Retrieved on September 14, 2019.
• ↑ 2.0 2.1 Skelton, Grant (August 27, 2015). " AN NCS PREMIERE AND A REVIEW: BROKEN FLESH - "BROKEN FLESH" ". No Clean Singing. Retrieved on September 15, 2019.
• ↑ Mabee, Justin. " Broken Flesh ". HM Magazine. Retrieved on September 15, 2019.
• ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 " Past Members ". Facebook. January 23, 2012. Retrieved on September 15, 2019.
• ↑ " Broken Flesh - Forever in Flames ". Discogs. Retrieved on September 15, 2019.
• ↑ Crospy (March 14, 2012). " Broken Flesh - Stripped, Stabbed, and Crucified ". Encyclopedia Metallum. Retrieved on September 15, 2019.
• ↑ " ANNOUNCEMENT: Ricky Puckett's departure 01/18/2012 ". Facebook. Retrieved on September 15, 2019.
• ↑ " Broken Flesh - Warbound ". Discogs. Retrieved on September 15, 2019.
• ↑ Slessor, Dan (October 1, 2015). " Broken Flesh - Broken Flesh ".  Outburn  (81): 55. ISSN 1542-1309. Retrieved on September 15, 2019.
• ↑ Bowar, Chad (September 4, 2015). " Heavy Metal Album Reviews: Week of September 4, 2015 ". About.com. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
• ↑ Finney, Graham (October 7, 2015). " Broken Flesh – "Broken Flesh" (Album Review) ". Pure Grain Audio. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
• ↑ Hel, Pagan (August 21, 2015). " Review: Broken Flesh – Self-Titled ". RAM Zine. Retrieved September 15, 2019.

Black, Jimmy (September 15, 2015). " Broken Flesh - Broken Flesh (Album Review) ". Cryptic Rock. Retrieved on September 15, 2019.

• ↑ Mathes, Jacob; Broken Flesh (March 30, 2016). " Broken Flesh announcement ". Facebook. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
• ↑ Broken Flesh (May 18, 2016). " Broken Flesh announcement ". Facebook. Retrieved September 15, 2019.  Well we have a bass player as of tonight. Kyle Fitzgerald. ITS ON!!!!!!!
• ↑ " Broken Flesh Audiofeed 2016 ". YouTube. Retrieved on September 15, 2019.
• ↑ " Broken Flesh has a new band member ". Facebook. Retrieved on September 15, 2019.
• ↑ Beard, Mason (April 20, 2017). " Broken Flesh adds on former Obliteration/Death List Guitarist ". Indie Vision Music. Retrieved on September 15, 2019.
• ↑ 20.0 20.1 Beard, Mason (July 8, 2019). " Hasten Revelation Lineup Shall Cause a Crimson Flood ". The Metal Onslaught. Retrieved on September 15, 2019.
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Min Woo Lee broke his right ring finger in a gym accident 10 days ago, a dumbbell exercise gone awry. After a “miraculously good” recovery, he’s onward to the Masters.

Lee suffered this fluke injury two Saturdays ago, March 30, he revealed Tuesday afternoon at Augusta National. It was his last rep of a side bridge glute workout, and he clipped his right ring finger while throwing the dumbbell down.

“It’s actually amazing how fast the recovery was,” Lee said Tuesday. “It was bruised, still swollen, but not actually that painful which is really strange. Somehow recovering very good, so icing and elevating as much as I can.

“I guess it wasn't the best prep, and I got the flu two days ago. Yeah, it's going great.”

Lee visited a doctor shortly after the accident, thinking at first his hand was OK because he could still move it. Upon further examination, it was broken, leading to a traditional ice-and-elevation recovery process. He started hitting chip shots within a couple of days, then progressed to his first full driver swing last Friday. His hand is still bandaged, but he intends on giving the Masters a full go.

“I still went to the gym last week as much as I could,” Lee said Tuesday. “Obviously didn't do that exercise. Every time I looked at that 20-pound dumbbell, yeah, gave it a death stare.

“It was a very lucky … it was probably the best worst thing,” he said of his injury.

Lee debuted at the Masters in 2022, finishing T14. The affable Australian missed the cut a year ago, and he qualified for his third Masters via the top 50 on the 2023 year-end Official World Golf Ranking. He hopes he’s around for years to come – gym mishaps and all.

“It’s my favorite place in the world,” Lee said of Augusta National. “It is a very special place, and really grateful to be here.”

As golf comes together for the Masters, a chasm still divides the sport

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Golf’s biggest buzzword on the eve of its biggest tournament has nothing to do with technique or equipment or any of the superstars converging this week on Augusta National . The topic du jour is sustainability — or, rather, the perceived unsustainability of the current landscape, which has the world’s best pros competing on separate tours, their much-anticipated alliance still up in the air , and a sport enjoying surging participation but fearing a decline in fan interest.

“Things need a correction,” Rory McIlroy, one of the faces of the PGA Tour, said last week in Texas, “and things are unsustainable.”

“And it needs to happen fast,” Bryson DeChambeau, the LIV Golf star, said in Florida. “It’s not a two-year thing. It needs to happen quicker rather than later just for the good of the sport. Too many people are losing interest.”

While there’s more money than ever flowing through the sport, the dueling pro circuits are fighting for relevance. They’re tweaking and overhauling their business models in hopes of unlocking a return on investment, trying to funnel unprecedented sums of money to their players while still building profitable businesses. Meanwhile, a growing chorus is calling for some form of reconciliation.

This week, 13 LIV players will compete at the Masters with their PGA Tour counterparts, distinguishable only by the LIV team gear they’ll be sporting on golf’s most hallowed grounds — Sergio García, the Fireball; Bubba Watson, the RangeGoat. And for four days, fans will be reminded both of what today’s game isn’t — a unified tour where the best players consistently play against one another — and what they hope it might again become.

The sustainability discussion is two-pronged: Can the sport remain relevant and engaging to fans in its fractured state? And is the sport economically viable enough to support the current pace of spending?

“I just think with the fighting and everything that’s went on over the past couple years, people are just getting really fatigued of it, and it’s turning people off men’s professional golf,” McIlroy told reporters last week. “And that’s not a good thing for anyone.”

More than 10 months have passed since the PGA Tour announced plans to partner with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund , which owns LIV Golf. The sides blew past a Dec. 31 deadline and continue to work through details, but no deal is imminent.

LIV Golf continues to pour money into personnel on and off the course, even as its product has yet to reach a critical mass, particularly in the United States. And the PGA Tour responded to LIV’s flurry of activity by going on its own spending spree — with new expenses seemingly outpacing new revenue streams.

Because the game’s top players haven’t competed against one another in an individual event since last year’s British Open, fans have endured lackluster tournament fields and forgettable Sunday finishes. While LIV’s linear TV ratings aren’t publicized, LIV officials say their numbers on the CW Network are up 40 percent from last year and they’re pleased with early streaming viewership. The PGA Tour’s TV figures, which includes a much larger audience domestically, are down more than 15 percent.

“Ratings fluctuate from year to year,” said Sean McManus, head of CBS Sports. “As we all know, to a large extent, it depends on who is on the leader board and how close the tournament is. … But the advertisers seem happy, the sponsors seem happy, so it’s a little early to predict where there is a trend out there on the ratings.”

Neither circuit has seen its biggest stars shine on a weekly basis — last weekend’s winners were 22-year-old Akshay Bhatia on the PGA Tour and South African Dean Burmester for LIV — and the headlines focus on the off-course intrigue and the sport’s uncertain future.

“We talk so much about how important it is for players to be in the right place mentally, and I just think there’s an epidemic of distraction on the PGA Tour, whether it’s greed or trying to solve problems that are almost unsolvable, however you want to put it,” said Brandel Chamblee, a Golf Channel analyst. “I just think they’re hugely distracted.”

After shifting its business away from the nonprofit model, the tour now has to pay taxes, reward players who want more money and answer to investors who seek a return — in addition to TV executives and advertisers who expect a product that will reliably attract a huge audience.

PGA Tour officials have put together a plan that is not wholly dependent on the PIF following through on its early investment plans. The tour took on a $1.5 billion investment from a collection of U.S. sports owners known as Strategic Sports Group ; the amount could double. That money helped the tour launch PGA Tour Enterprises, which will oversee all of its commercial ventures.

“Prior to creating the structure of PGA Tour Enterprises and taking on outside investment, we’ve always had in our previous structure this natural conflict between an organizational objective to maximize player earnings with growth investment,” said Jay Madara, the tour’s chief financial officer. “I liken it to meeting payroll this month [or] this quarter and not having anything left over for investment, if you will. … If there were things that made sense strategically that created long-term returns, there wasn’t patient capital for that.”

According to its most recent tax filings, the tour saw $1.9 billion in revenue in 2022, compared with $1.87 billion in expenses — and both figures have steadily risen over the years. The tour has high-dollar commitments — $4 billion due from sponsors through 2035 and $5 billion in media rights through 2030 — but also has taken on new expenses.

With an ambitious plan to offer golfers an equity stake in the tour and with tournament purses that have more than doubled over the past decade, tour officials have been trying to create new revenue streams and expand existing ones. While its broadcast rights deals run through 2030, the organization plans to open its own 70,000-square-foot production studio next year, which will enable the tour to create and distribute more of its own content.

The tour is also looking to generate more revenue from its weekly tournaments and has overhauled its event funding formula. The tour relies on local organizations to run most of its tournaments but makes money by staging six events on its own — and could take on more. The tour recently acquired a golf cart company and a logistics outfit, which will make it easier and more cost-effective to host tournaments.

One of its most audacious efforts to balance the books: The tour informed event organizers this week that they’ll soon be on the hook for a hosting fee — $250,000 for full-field events and $500,000 for the signature events next year, and twice those amounts beginning in 2026. The tour also expects organizers to kick back a percentage of hospitality sales — 1 percent next year and increasing to 2.5 percent in 2027.

Tour events traditionally have involved a philanthropic component, and while the new initiative has created fears that these fees will eat into charitable donations, tour officials said they’re confident that contributions will not suffer.

“It is something that is important to our tradition, honor and legacy. It’s something we have to balance as we move forward, as well, in terms of our new structure,” Madara said.

LIV, thanks to its deep-pocketed Saudi benefactors, does not appear to face the same economic pressures, with officials saying they’re financially ahead of schedule.

“The critical piece for us is the creation of new value through all of this,” said Jed Moore, a senior LIV consultant. “People have misunderstood the investment into players. They’ve misunderstood the investment in the Asian Tour. They’ve misunderstood why golf needed to find a way to create that new value. Sustainable economics in sports — it’s become front and center because it’s now an asset class.”

LIV officials view their product similar to Formula One — fewer events, with top-tier athletes globe-trotting between major cities. And one key cornerstone: a team-based format that LIV hopes will inspire fan loyalty and drive value.

While LIV owns a 75 percent stake in each of its 13 teams, they function as independent entities and create revenue as each sees fit. Moore said some are already profitable. None is close to reaching maturity as an asset, he said, but someday they could take on investors or be sold outright.

“Can you imagine what the Golden Bears would have been worth if Jack [Nicklaus] played in a form of LIV in his heyday? Arnie’s Army, the Big Easys, the Great White Sharks?” he said. “Imagine those teams.”

While the LIV product has been slow to catch on with golf fans in the United States, officials have been pleased with the interest they’ve seen in places such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.

LIV’s season debut in Mexico marked its highest TV numbers to date — 432,000 watched on the CW for the final round, and more than 3.5 million streamed some portion of the three-day event on YouTube or LIV’s app. While not as lucrative to advertisers, the direct-to-consumer streaming options are a valuable metric to LIV officials, who say they’re targeting a younger audience. (The final round of last year’s Masters, won by Jon Rahm, averaged more than 12 million viewers.)

And while many thought LIV’s days were numbered when the PIF agreed to partner with the PGA Tour last June, LIV has only kept building. Signing Rahm before this season was a major coup, and this week LIV is hiring four senior-level executives and working on its 2025 schedule.

Even LIV’s biggest detractors (see: McIlroy, Rory) have come to reluctantly accept its place in the golf ecosystem. LIV launched in 2022 with no corporate signage at its events, but this year it has already announced more than 20 global partnerships, including with Panini and Google Cloud. Its teams have separately inked deals with more than a dozen corporate sponsors.

LIV officials say the plan was never to replace the PGA Tour, just as Formula One isn’t trying to replace U.S.-based auto racing circuits. They think the tours can coexist — different leagues coming together for a major championship, akin to the Super Bowl or World Series.

Left unsaid: While LIV tries to expand and the PGA Tour adopts a new business plan, what becomes of a weary fan base? The sport’s participation numbers have never been higher — some 45 million Americans swung a club last year, according to the National Golf Foundation — and while professional players have never been richer, the fans have been left wanting more.

“Right now, we are in the disruption phase,” Phil Mickelson, among the first to bolt for LIV, said last week, “so we are in the middle of the process. And when it’s all said and done, it’s going to be a lot brighter. But while we go through it, it’s challenging. But we’ll get there.”

The Masters 2024

Professional golf makes its annual visit to Augusta National Golf Club at the 2024 Masters, beginning Thursday and ending Sunday. See the latest Masters updates, scores and schedule .

Tee times: First- and second-round pairings and tee times have been announced. See the full schedule .

Who’s playing: The Masters field has 89 players, including five-time winner Tiger Woods , defending champion Jon Rahm and 2022 winner Scottie Scheffler . Five amateur golfers are also in the field .

LIV and PGA: Thirteen LIV players will compete at the Masters with their PGA Tour counterparts, distinguishable only by the LIV team gear they’ll be sporting. More than 10 months have passed since the PGA Tour announced plans to partner with LIV Golf’s Saudi backers, but no deal is imminent.

Betting: From historical performance to odds, here’s a breakdown of nine players who could win the Masters .

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