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The golfers include Mickelson and Johnson, along with other highly ranked players such as Louis Oosthuizen (21), Kevin Na (34), Talor Gooch (35) and Sergio Garcia (57).

Of the 17 golfers, nine had preemptively resigned their PGA Tour membership.

Sounds like a lawsuit coming.

1 posted on 06/09/2022 8:40:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

How to ruin your sport


2 posted on 06/09/2022 8:43:21 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Well, this should kill the only sport I enjoyed watching on TV. I guess it’s a better death that seeing a bunch of sodomites walking down the fairyway holding hands.


3 posted on 06/09/2022 8:43:28 AM PDT by jimbug
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To: 1Old Pro

why are they suspended?


4 posted on 06/09/2022 8:45:53 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: 1Old Pro

Isn’t this the tour that’s playing Bedminster later in the summer?


5 posted on 06/09/2022 8:46:34 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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PGA is being really stupid about this. They don’t control the majors, so they have no real punishment. All they’re doing is banning some of the sport’s big names who are doing occasional “other” tournaments to make more money. By forcing the players to choose and thus keeping them out of PGA events they’re just gonna kill their own ratings.


6 posted on 06/09/2022 8:46:56 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: 1Old Pro

So we are just going to overlook American human rights abuses, like the J6 and numerous imprisonments and bombings?


8 posted on 06/09/2022 8:48:03 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: 1Old Pro

Most of these are older players looking to cash-in at the end of their careers. The money is too big to ignore. They aren’t leaving on principle.


11 posted on 06/09/2022 8:49:01 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: 1Old Pro
Mickleson's unprofessional and whiney exit from the PGA a couple of months ago really surprised me.

Does the PGA need some competition? Maybe, (I need to learn more) and maybe the LIV has an interesting format. That said, I'll skip the saudi tourneys.

The suspended pros might be wise to do the same.

14 posted on 06/09/2022 8:50:06 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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To: 1Old Pro
Moar sanctions.

The TechnoBullies run wild, once again.

I'm going to sanction the Pigga Tour, at a personal level.

34 posted on 06/09/2022 9:09:57 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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This is bad news for the senior tour over the next 10-15 years.


35 posted on 06/09/2022 9:10:57 AM PDT by beekay (Justice for Ashli Babbitt! Say her name.)
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To: 1Old Pro

This somewhat reminds me of what the World Football League attempted to do to the NFL in the mid ‘70s. That venture didn’t last long. I’m thinking this one won’t either.


38 posted on 06/09/2022 9:19:13 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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All this tearful violin playing for the scumbag Khashoggi, who was no “journalist” at all. He wrote a grand total of three op-ed pieces, which the CIA thought at the time were ghost-written by a Qatar-based Al Jazeera reporter. He was a rabid anti-Semite, former BFF with Bin Laden and supporter of Hamas and Hizbollah. He took on MBS and lost. No one should shed a single tear for him, nor should our foreign policy be altered in his name.


41 posted on 06/09/2022 9:26:42 AM PDT by montag813
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seems like the PGA will end up being the AAA golf feeder league when all the big names go to LIV.

This is “cancel” culture at it’s finest. If the LIV has the money they can kill the PGA pretty quickly.

Soon the Masters will be played in Williamsport, PA going head-to-head against the little league world series.


42 posted on 06/09/2022 9:27:33 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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Supposedly Tiger turned down LIV


43 posted on 06/09/2022 9:27:46 AM PDT by rainee (Trump won! )
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I’m guessing they’ll still keep the LPGA, so there is that. PGA golfers who can’t compete with the big boys of LIV can go tranny and play in the LPGA.


45 posted on 06/09/2022 9:29:27 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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PGA Tour comes across as very stuffy.....”But we have rules and we have tradition we must uphold!”

I personally believe the disruption / competition is good.

Also for anyone objecting, “but its the Saudi’s”, I would ask a question to PGA tour major sponsors such as BMW, IBM about their business in Saudi Arabia.


47 posted on 06/09/2022 9:37:56 AM PDT by GotMojo ( )
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To: 1Old Pro

PGA is a monopoly.
Glad to see some name golfers walk away from them.
Competition necessary.


49 posted on 06/09/2022 9:43:54 AM PDT by Ninaq (Nina)
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The PGA suspends the players.
Imagine what the Saudis will do if they leave....
They will execute them on the 19th hole : )


59 posted on 06/09/2022 10:14:54 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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F The PGA, the went woke and banned Trump courses I hope they go down hard. The LIV has deep pockets literally oil sheik money and they are playing at two Trump venues. I play a lot of golf , have played all over the world I take my clubs everywhere I fly too. The PGA has become q woke racket that has been strong arming their players for years a pox on them.


67 posted on 06/09/2022 11:25:54 AM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: 1Old Pro; All

The Herd with Colin Cowherd — his reaction to the PGA Tour suspending 17 players, including Phil Jackson, Dustin Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8wKZBRSMz4


90 posted on 06/11/2022 4:39:30 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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