A revolutionary development of events is currently underway in the sport of golf.
Athletes sell their honor for money.
You are amazed!
No, you don’t actually do that.
The new Saudi Tour that “shakes the Gulf” is a perfectly logical development that follows exactly the same pattern we’ve seen in practically all other major sports.
Formula 1 race in Jeddah, football clubs ruled by rogue countries, the World Cup is held in Qatar….
The list can be made long, but everything is rooted in the same phenomenon – that money rules.
Are people seriously surprised?
Phil MickelsonAnd the Dustin JohnsonSergio Garcia and a host of other relatively senior golfers are giving up hundreds million On the PGA Tour Replay Billion In LIV Golf.
morally reprehensible? 100 percent.
shocking? barely.
There are no nuclear physicists
Talk about these golfers. No more, no less.
As Taylor Gotsch said as he sat on a podium in London on Tuesday and was filled with tough questions from the media, probably for the first time in his adult life:
– I’m a golfer. I’m not very smart. I’m trying to get a ball into a small hole and it’s hard enough.
Connect with those of you who know who Talor Gooch is.
thought so.
The 30-year-old from Oklahoma belonged to the class of PGA Tour players who agonized all week in every week without being seen, but still made a good deal of money, to say the least.
More than enough to support himself and his family.
Now he’s sacrificing his reputation to make more money.
Are we really fools like him, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson, should we start spreading morals now, just because we’re getting open goals?
Isn’t it easy to make it a little easier on ourselves?
We’re good at it, throwing ourselves at the keys and getting the saw off when the smash mode appears.
We are less good at stopping and thinking about how the dirty evolution of our world actually affects everything we do on a daily basis.
“Aha, the shoes I am wearing and the mobile phone I carry in my pocket were made by Chinese labor children? Yes, yes, but you must have shoes and a mobile phone.”
“Can golfers be bought by a rogue country? What?! What idiots!”
It happens everywhere
Just for clarification:
Of course I think what is happening in Saudi Arabia is absolutely disgusting.
But I can’t even pretend to be surprised or upset because a handful of middle-aged, wealthy and privileged white men say yes to a billion kronor and bad luck where the money comes from.
Because it’s incredible, incredibly predictable.
- The European Tour and the Asian Tour have been organizing competitions on Saudi soil for several years. Henrik Stenson played. Nobody cared.
- State oil company Saudi Aramco is the main sponsor of six competitions on the Women’s European Tour this year. How many titles have you read about?
Let’s take some examples from other sports:
- Football golden boy Kylian Mbappe, 23, signed a new contract worth 6 billion Swedish kronor this week. Funds that come indirectly from the Qatari state.
- The majority of businessmen who own clubs in the NBA also have a lot of money invested in China. In total, this equates to 100 billion Swedish kronor.
more than?
- Well… US President Joe Biden is expected to travel soon to Saudi Arabia and meet with Mohammed bin Salman in hopes of bringing down oil prices.
System error
At the same time as all of this is happening right before our eyes, people are now sitting back and feverishing a bunch of greedy choices of unimportant golfers, when in fact the system is at fault.
It’s not that the PGA Tour is God’s gift to humanity either. Millions and millions of dollars are poured in, but many end up in the wrong pockets (read: managers).
The uprising had been going on for several years and it was only a matter of time before the revolution broke out.
Now it expresses itself in a completely disgusting way as the money comes directly from the Government Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.
It’s a dark and horrific development, but who should really be able to stop it – and how?
From a purely sporting point of view, it is clear that the new Saudi Tour will be a huge failure.
The team’s names were introduced the other day with names like “Fireballs” and “Iron Heads,” with associated logos apparently taken straight from Clip Art.
It doesn’t smell like instant viewing success.
The scene begins today and tomorrow the World Cup begins.
Or no, just that.
World Football Championship Will be Tomorrow started.
If it had not been bought by Qatar and moved to this winter.
