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Running 2022 Golf Thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Neutral Corner, Jan 6, 2022.

  1. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    Take note of the PGA golfers who play in Saudi Arabia. They’re accepting blood money.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...di-international-phil-mickelson-rory-mcilroy/


    "Next month, though, there will be two distinct camps of players making choices that both matter and reflect their values. One group will play in the PGA Tour’s Pebble Beach Pro-Am, a tournament that started as a clambake hosted by the crooner Bing Crosby. Another will fly halfway around the globe to play in the Saudi International, a tournament sanctioned by the Asia Tour and sponsored by a murderous regime.

    The stars who assemble in Saudi Arabia — and it’s currently a group that includes Mickelson, the six-time major champion, as well as Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau and Sergio García — are doing so for the paychecks, which will reportedly be enormous just for showing up. There’s no disguising the fact that it’s blood money.

    Follow along. It’s not that difficult. In October, former world No. 1 Greg Norman was named CEO of LIV Golf Investments, an entity that created a “strategic partnership” with the Asian Tour to sponsor 10 tournaments in 2022 and pump $200 million into the circuit over the next decade. The first is the Saudi International powered by SoftBank Investment Advisers, to be held Feb. 3-6 at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The primary investor in Norman’s group is the Public Investment Fund, which is essentially the financial arm of the Saudi government, a regime run by authoritarian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman."
     
  2. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    So they're craven hoors. They don't care what you, me, or the Washington Post thinks. By the way, WaPo will still carry the golf results, right? LOL

    Their sponsors should pay a price. Don't buy their shit. Don't watch golf.

    Stop posting with a device manufactured by a totalitarian regime that murders ethnic minorities in concentration camps.
     
  3. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    No one has a spine here. Not that I expect the players to have one, they only recognize money in the color of green. "Blood money" means nothing to them. But the PGA Tour brass are the real chumps here. Don't want your players going? Then don't grant the exemptions. Or tell them they can go but they'll forfeit FedExCup points or PIP or Wyndham Rewards or their status in whatever other gravy train pool is going. If the players want to fight back by arguing their "independent contractor" status, tell them to pound sand. No pun intended.

    I'm already over the whole PGA Tour vs. rival tour thing, it's a pillow fight and the pillows are bursting with cash, which fans don't care one bit about. The PGA Tour is boosting purses this year by more than $100 million, money that came out of their deep warchests (funny how those same warchests couldn't save some rank-and-file employees from layoffs around the pandemic). It's just gross.
     
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  4. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Yes. Because any sane person isn’t going to buy a Callaway driver because Phil Mickelson is playing in it, or you’re not going to buy a box of TP5’s because Dustin Johnson is playing in it.
     
  5. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    The problem with that is the PGA Tour brass work for the players, not the other way around. They're administrators. They can enforce current rules (which were passed with the approval of the players) but they can't decide unilaterally to change the rules about exemptions for international events on the fly.
     
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  6. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Oh, I know. Monahan can only go so far, he and his people just look like weasels. I'm all for a disruptor in pro golf if it can get the PGA Tour to think more creatively about its product.
     
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  7. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    This guy has 11 aces in his pro career, including one at age 51. He's from the city where a creek gave the name to the wagons early settlers used in their treks west. Who is he?
     
  8. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Ty Webb
     
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  9. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Nope lol
     
  10. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    The answer is Jim Furyk of Lancaster, Pa., where the Conestoga River flows east of town.
     
  11. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Webb has more than that.
     
  12. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Read a deal today about the Hall Of Fame. Still the biggest disservice in the game that Weiskopf isn’t in.
     
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