Posted on 06/06/2023 5:18:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
One truth we learned long ago about the people who run the exclusionary pursuits of professional and amateur golf is that they do not accept change unless they feel forced to.
Whether it was staging tournaments at places that practiced racial discrimination, or playing the Masters at a world-famous club that didn’t allow female members, golf only surrendered in the way former Augusta National chairman Hootie Johnson once swore his men’s-only retreat never would — at the point of a bayonet.
So the PGA Tour capitulated Tuesday because it felt it had no choice, at least as it relates to the bottom line. Never mind that the LIV Golf tour funded by the Saudis was something of a ratings disaster on the CW Network, or that its events were beyond meaningless, or that its team competition was nearly impossible to follow or care about.
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It’s crap, and the pga golfers aren’t happy. They passed on huge money because it was “the right thing to do”. The tour hosed them big.
President Trump was right again!
On the Golf Channel, never have seen so many sad faces that this is happening.
You think it’s right to sell the county off to the Saudis?
How did you get from there to here? Trump predicted the merger.
Are these Saudis who formed this golf association criminals?
Remember 9/11. All the hijackers were saudis financed by saudis.
Were these the Saudis that did that?
“Whether it was staging tournaments at places that practiced racial discrimination, or playing the Masters at a world-famous club that didn’t allow female members”
This “sports writer” casts golf as a racist game. Nothing else he has to say is worth considering.
George W. Bush and his piece of shit daddy did that long ago.
To be named “pfft”.
They aren’t the only ones, and they aren’t around anymore. So you’ve gone full Saudi now? You won’t fight anymore?
You tell me? Are any of them criminals?By definition, Putin, Zelensky, Soros, WEF, etc. aren’t criminals, so we should accept their hegemony?
Do you have a citation? If he knew why didn’t he do anything to stop it? Why is he so chummy with the Saudis? I remember when that earned Obama a lot of flack around here, but now it’s a good thing.
Wow, so he was in on it, and he did nothing to stop it.
Personally, I can’t stand golf.
He is chummy with the Saudi’s BECAUSE they were HUGE in the Abraham Accords!! Trump wants peace in the ME you can NOT get that without the influence of the Saudi’s it is THAT SIMPLE!!!
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