Posted on 06/07/2021 6:47:52 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
The 2021 the Memorial Tournament purse is set for $9.3 million, with 68 professional players who complete four rounds at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, earning an official-money paycheck this week.
The winner's share of the the Memorial Tournament prize pool is at $1,674,000, with the second-place finisher taking home $1,013,700.
The Memorial Tournament field is headed by Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay, Viktor Hovland and more. Jon Rahm, who led by six shots after 54 holes, was forced to withdraw after a positive COVID-19 test. He will not be paid from the prize pool.
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Interestingly enough, just coincidence. Cantalay, the winner, was a favorite of Jack’s, in fact, he has worked with him and mentored him.
If I were Rahm, I’d sue. If he was vaccinated, he was no threat to anyone. Not to mention the tests post a high percentage of false positives.
The damages should be astronomical. It is very rare for even a top flight golfer to play four great rounds in a row to win a tournament.
I don’t get why he had to be literally escorted of the golf course like that.
He was obviously not in acute medical distress. I had hoped we were done seeing such moments of hysteria.
They are lucky he was a gentleman, and didn’t try to break somebody’s jaw.
Yes, they are friends.
Yes, I'm sure he was seething, he can run hot, but he kept his cool. Credit to him.
I hope he is paid from the much bigger lawsuit pool.
Democrats eliminate the competition anyway possible and always fix the outcome just another reason that sports betting is popular.
There are factions in the Loonie Left that now believe THEY are the law.
This will become the norm unless Americans unite against it.
John Rahm 6old interviewers that the worst of it for him is that he will not be seeing his mom and dad, who he has not seen since the Covid mess started, and they just arrived from Spain hoping to see him the day after the tournament.
John’s comments to the newscasters who talked privately to him were very much looking ahead, not looking back.
The tragic thing would be a false positive due to getting the vaccine. That happened to my son’s father-in-law who had to cancel his trip to his Dr. in Brazil for an important procedure. only for the test to turn negative a day later. He’d already cancelled the trip and now has to wait months to go.
Was this player symptomatic? If not, he could’ve worn a mask and finished the tournament. This is outrageous!
Classy
The mere fact of having two different sets of testing protocols depending on whether a person was “fully vaccinated“ or not is an outrage. If he had been “fully vaccinated“ he would not have had to be tested every single day since it was known that he had been in “close contact” with a person who tested positive. We do not even know if that person who “tested positive“ ever had any symptoms himself.
A player who has been “fully vaccinated” will not be tested daily unless he has symptoms. I wonder if the PGA tour is even requiring the general testing before a tournament of people who have been “fully vaccinated”. The pressure to get vaccinated with an experimental drug, totally unnecessary for a young healthy person, is enormous.
forced to withdraw after a positive COVID-19 test.
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This is the test with what, 90% false positives???
Hopefully they did a re-test, sheesh.
In addition, using the same sample for the retest is ridiculous. If the first test had been contaminated, the result would be the same. If a later sample was used, it would be even more likely to show a positive if the person was actually sick with Covid-19.
Using a different test would make more sense since the test was not time relevant, such as in a bike race, when it is trying to see if the person was using a performance enhancing drug at the time of the comeptition.
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