If you were the PGA TOUR, why would you risk your entire existence in legal discovery?
If you are a golfer trying to reach the pinnacle of the game by qualifying for the US Open, why DQ yourself for fixing an aeration hole that nobody saw?
Call me naive, but I have always seen golf as being different from all other sports because it put integrity above winning.
I would rather see the PGA run itself into bankrupt nonexistence in an impossible fight against infinite Saudi wealth than make the “smart business decision” and capitulate. I hope the players revolt.
Dan:
Okay, then I will call you naive. Which is okay -- you probably haven't hung around the power circles of golf very much.
I've been around them but I tend to keep my distance. A lot of the big players in the sport seem to be in it for themselves, judging by their actions, which they try to paper over by suggesting they are doing it "for the good of the game". My experience is that the people who are doing things for the good of the game never have to say so, and don't get paid much to do it.
That's why I have had a more neutral take on the LIV thing from the beginning . . . because the people who run the PGA TOUR are every bit as motivated by $$$$ as the founders of LIV, except even more entitled in their posturing. So it's nice to see them finally revealed as such.
By the same token, talking tough about international relations on TV and claiming the moral high ground is utterly meaningless. For anybody on TV getting paid big bucks to appoint themselves as the conscience of golf is laughable.
But, all of it generally confirms what people from other countries think about Americans and their attitude toward the rest of the world.