Posted on 08/04/2022 5:50:17 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
Professional Golfers are Independent Contractors.
If they qualify to play in a PGA Tournament
they should be allow to play.
Bust up the PGA real good.
Phil was granted "lifetime" exemption. Hard to restrict him.
BTW, Jerry Pournelle called this The Iron Law of Bureaucracy.
Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people:
First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.
Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
Interesting
Wonder how many - if any - PGA tournaments are “invitational”.
Settlement usually happens only after the case has progressed enough through discovery and pretrial motions to make the most likely resolution evident. And judges know that one of the best ways to prompt a settlement is to set a case for trial.
PGA has to maintain their world wide monopoly.
Same kind of thing went on with the American Football league
before they merged
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