US Ally Saudi Arabia Just Beheaded 81 People In One Day

WestlinnDuck said:

RaceBannon said:

The tour beat him with the WGC idea. Now America and Europe will join together in the next phase

The tours make the stars. Even if Norman got the stars of today there wouldn't be a tomorrow

Nobody is getting famous winning the Riyadh team match. Dumb idea but Norman did make the players more money

3.6 for the Players championship winner

Tour winnings are peanuts compared to the endorsement money. The endorsement money terminates if the game is rigged and the "stars" don't have access to the four majors. Name an Indy car driver? How much money did Mario Andretti make on endorsements as a household name? Now spit. It's all the NASCAR guys. Rickie Fowler is getting like $10 million a year on endorsements.

Normans idea was effectively to close the gates. Limit field size, decide who gets into the club and keep cashing checks. That doesn’t work do to the depth of talent and fickle nature of the golf. Been a lot of guys who were sure things early on, bottomed out and resurfaced in their mid 30’s to temporarily live up to their initial hype. And then bottom out again. Have a 50 man field every week and these guys no longer exist.

The WGCs suck dick as well. Small fields and no cuts is part of that, but they also choose beyond shitty courses. Go play one at Pine Valley or Tera Iti in New Zealand and see what happens.

RaceBannon said:

Bob_C said:

WestlinnDuck said:

RaceBannon said:

The tour beat him with the WGC idea. Now America and Europe will join together in the next phase

The tours make the stars. Even if Norman got the stars of today there wouldn't be a tomorrow

Nobody is getting famous winning the Riyadh team match. Dumb idea but Norman did make the players more money

3.6 for the Players championship winner

Tour winnings are peanuts compared to the endorsement money. The endorsement money terminates if the game is rigged and the "stars" don't have access to the four majors. Name an Indy car driver? How much money did Mario Andretti make on endorsements as a household name? Now spit. It's all the NASCAR guys. Rickie Fowler is getting like $10 million a year on endorsements.

Normans idea was effectively to close the gates. Limit field size, decide who gets into the club and keep cashing checks. That doesn’t work do to the depth of talent and fickle nature of the golf. Been a lot of guys who were sure things early on, bottomed out and resurfaced in their mid 30’s to temporarily live up to their initial hype. And then bottom out again. Have a 50 man field every week and these guys no longer exist.

The WGCs suck dick as well. Small fields and no cuts is part of that, but they also choose beyond shitty courses. Go play one at Pine Valley or Tera Iti in New Zealand and see what happens.

They kept changing the WGCs which makes them irrelevant. Golf is about history like baseball

The original WGC was Doral -(TuRMP) - and Firestone in America with a match play and a foreign stop

Tiger won like 19 of the 1st 20 in case they became major

When you change them to something crazy good (which they haven’t tried yet) you might get a different reaction. Golfers read about the same list of top 50 courses in Golf Digest every year, and have seen like 10 of them on TV.

Tradition matters when it’s good tradition. Firestone blows ass by the way. So does Eastlake. So does Muirfied Village which is like a top 20 course every year. Golf Digest is just blowing Jack on that one.

Mickelson had to apologize for calling the Saudi's "Scary Mother fuckers" and lost sponsorships as a result.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/23/1082549969/phil-mickelson-saudi-arabiagolf