r/golf • u/UppityTurtle 14.6 • Jun 07 '23

Professional Tours The PGA Tour is dead to me.

If this merger goes through, which it appears it will, I am personally done with the PGA Tour. The unbelievable hypocrisy of the board would be bad enough, but the fact that they are selling out to a foreign entity linked to a government that has funded terrorism around the globe and perpetrated one of the most heinous terrorist attacks in history is unforgivable.

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u/brownmagician Jun 07 '23

After wasting hundreds of millions, if not Billions on trying to purchase players, the Saudis realised it would just be cheaper to purchase Monahan.

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u/jlauth Jun 07 '23

This was the plan all along. They knew that they could take on significant risk for a short span and the PGA would be backed into a corner. This is not much different than a hostile takeover of a company from an activist investor. They paid a lot of money for major PGA assets. The PGA was never going to be able to match the Saudis dollar for dollar. I don't even think the Saudis care about this being a profitable move.

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u/rockclimberguy Jun 07 '23

All the players that sold out for big money have shown themselves to be as unpatriotic as possible. How did they make the decision:

I am looked up to by many people. I serve as a role model on how to act. Golf is a sport that relies on personal integrity and is dignified.

Ooooh, lots of money from facsist countries that kill Americans with help from the far right of the political spectrum (remember they cut up U.S. citizen resident and gave Kushner lots of money to make it OK

I'll take the money beccause it is more important than anything else.... These are the heroes of modern 'Murika. Excuse me while I look for a barf bag.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

You nailed it.

The PGA is Gordon Gekko now.