Golf...... of course not
Posted on 04/19/2020 7:06:59 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Do you like golf? Not so much? Too bad. Because that’s what you’ve got.
The PGA Tour made it known this week that it intends to return to normal operating service shortly.
“I’m not going to say that I have 110-per-cent certainty, but we are very confident that we will be able to play [the] second week in June,” Tour official Andy Pazder told reporters on Thursday.
You know what I’m 110-per-cent certain of? That inflation is going to be somewhere around 110 per cent before this is all over. I’m not sure that imaginary number applies anywhere else.
Sports has been turned upside down by the pandemic more profoundly than a simple cessation of business. It is now entering a period where it must radically reconsider how pro sports are exhibited, and whether that’s even possible.
Golf is the early winner because it has several structural disadvantages. At least, things that used to be so.
You can’t make a living selling seats at a golf tournament. No one wants to sit in the baking sun for 12 hours (the amount of time competitors are on the course on a given Thursday or Friday). People do it, but no one really wants to.
If you can get one (you can’t), a four-day pass to the Masters costs US$325. A four-hour pass to the Super Bowl costs more than 10 times that.
Instead, golf makes its money from television. But because you will make room in your life for a British Open, but have never heard of nor will ever watch the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Miss., there isn’t a whole lot of that.
This is why top golfers make so much less than their basketball- or soccer-playing counterparts.
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More unnecessary panic being spread. Too bad for them the end is near. There is something called decon!
“The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously — after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important … so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was spreading.)”
― Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Bkmrk.
The genocidal Democrats really, really want you to get THIS vaccine.
You can trust them now, for sure.
Yep. Start the rumor that movie theaters will be unable to prevent the spread of COVID-19 or any other virus no matter how much they try to clean up between showings.
But how will we watch them kneel?
Does anyone really believe the seasonal flu vaccine “saves” us when (a) more than half the population does not get the vaccine, (b) many who get the vaccine still get a case of the seasonal flu, and (c) 60,000 have died this flu season in the U.S., which is more than the deaths from Covid-19.
On a personal note I have never once had the flu vaccine and never once a severe flu illness.
If sports should be dead just because there is no Covid-19 vaccine, then the world should have been shutting down every year from November through April, to minimize the millions of deaths from the flu.
I say to everyone, protect your own health, live healthy, be healthy and don’t think you’re going to “save” everyone else by being a tyrant over all the healthy, instead of quarantining the sick, the elderly, the infirm and the vulnerable. 80% of the population will eventually get mild illnesses, herd immunity, and unable to pass the disease to the rest.
Yeah, well how long have people been waiting for an HIV vaccine?
People are slowly getting fed up with this, and we can already see this by the growing number of protests throughout America!
I don’t see an inflationary rate increase after this thing is over.
What I DO see, is every stinking company elevating prices to make up for their short-sighted financial planning models. In this day, I have not seen one company retain a portion, a category on their spreadsheets, for catastrophic rebuilding. In 1968, when I took accounting classes in high school, there were such things in our books.
I also see utility and communication companies implementing, and or raising, what they term a recoupment of funds spent in line repairs added to our monthly bills.
So, are things going to cost more? Yes. Is that inflation? No. It’s businesses stiffing you for all that time they lost when we all were shut down. There are no shortages, there are no hurricane/tornado/nationwide catastrophic atmospheric destruction zones.
Just a bunch of grasshoppers begging more from the ants!
Seriously. Every virus in history peters out through natural processes. Except this one.
We don’t have an HIV vaccine, or even a vaccine for the common cold. Yet they have had decades to develop one.
This is about TOTAL control. Nothing more.
It depends on your interpretation of money. While the number of touring pros on the major tours around the world (U.S., Europe, Asia) total less than 3,000, those who are good enough to compete can make millions of dollars—and not just from prize money.
In tournament winnings, just finishing a tournament will likely result in a payday of at least $25,000, while winning a PGA tournament can result in a payday of $1.5 million. And everyone gets “show money.” To get Woods in your tournament it’ll cost you $1 million up front. The lowest offer to the top 150 is $100 thousand. And if the sponsors don’t have the money up front, they can invite the big names to skins game on Monday and the TV people will cover the fees with winnings.
Another way is a wealthy donation to the big name golfer’s charity and an exemption for the player with perks on rooms, transportation, food, and additional fees by a corporate sponsor in their name. (Good will makes money) And that doesn’t qualify as an appearance fee and protects the golfers taxes also.
So, the golfer hasn’t stuck a tee in the ground for the tournament and he’s already earned, at least, half a million in perks and cash and/or donations. And that doesn’t get their shoe line, remember the women, or clubs, balls, clothing, their watch, their car, or their hat they are paid to wear, or hit, or drive. Even Phil Mickleson’s hat makes money for charity.
And everything they represent can be bought on line. It just never stops.
rwood
The ultra vain sport that uses much more pesticides and herbicides, as well as fertilizers, per acre than the average farmer. Wash your hands after handling the ball and your golf shoes. You handle the club by the bottom when removing and returning them to the bag? Wash up.
Years back, I delivered product to over a 120 golf courses, usually early before sun up. The workers were already out spraying. It was obvious from the smell. They needed to be done doing that before the courses would open for the day.
From what I understand, appearance fees are not allowed on the PGA tour. Other events are a different matter though.
This isn’t about a virus, it is about political control, so discussions about vaccines are pointless.
Golf...... of course not
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