Masters Golf and Any Other Miscellaneous Golf Discussion

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Originally Posted by GreenfieldBison

All those guys who jumped to LIV are looking pretty good now with all that extra cash jingling in their pockets. If $$$ are important to them I guess.

Money always wins.

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I guess I’ll be formalizing my habit of watching men’s golf only 5 times a year into a formal policy going forward.

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Originally Posted by bisonaudit

I guess I’ll be formalizing my habit of watching men’s golf only 5 times a year into a formal policy going forward.

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Sigh… I don’t think I’m ready make any knee jerk reactions but jeeziz this is a weird situation.

Fuck the PGA.

I'm really curious to know what an acre of moral high ground sells for.

But moreso, I wish I was a senior NSA SIGINT spook tonight. I bet the airwaves are really buzzing.

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Originally Posted by tony

Fuck the PGA.

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With all their bluster and pontification they showed that they too had a price.

Jay Monahan fucked this up from the jump and he’s still fucking it up. He was two years too late in giving the players what they deserved. Then, having done that, and gone hard on the human rights issues, despite being pot committed, he’s folded to the big stack.

Whatever you think about where the money comes from (or where money comes from in other sports for that matter), the issue for me is trying to separate governing entities with sports that I love. To draw a comparison, all of us here love and are interested in NDSU Football and most of us in College Football in general, we don’t have to be fans of the NCAA to love College Football, and I don’t have to love the PGA to love professional golf.

That’s where I’m at right now, fwiw. Carry on…

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Originally Posted by heffray

Whatever you think about where the money comes from (or where money comes from in other sports for that matter), the issue for me is trying to separate governing entities with sports that I love. To draw a comparison, all of us here love and are interested in NDSU Football and most of us in College Football in general, we don’t have to be fans of the NCAA to love College Football, and I don’t have to love the PGA to love professional golf.

That’s where I’m at right now, fwiw. Carry on…

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Not loving the PGA seems like one thing. Not loving Saudi Arabia another.

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Originally Posted by heffray

Whatever you think about where the money comes from (or where money comes from in other sports for that matter), the issue for me is trying to separate governing entities with sports that I love. To draw a comparison, all of us here love and are interested in NDSU Football and most of us in College Football in general, we don’t have to be fans of the NCAA to love College Football, and I don’t have to love the PGA to love professional golf.

That’s where I’m at right now, fwiw. Carry on…

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One difference is that LIV/PGA are part of a foreign influence operation. Imagine if Putin funded the NCAA and awarded an FCS trophy made from MH17 wreckage?

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Originally Posted by bisonaudit

Not loving the PGA seems like one thing. Not loving Saudi Arabia another.

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Originally Posted by tony

One difference is that LIV/PGA are part of a foreign influence operation. Imagine if Putin funded the NCAA and awarded an FCS trophy made from MH17 wreckage?

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So where do you draw the line? Do you know where every cent of funding comes from for the NCAA, or literally any other pro sports governing body? I’m skeptical any of them are clean…

I was against LIV because it awarded mediocrity instead of creating better competition and “growing the game.” The Saudi connection was conveniently also objectionable, but I’m not convinced there aren’t similar dirty money trails in other sports.