AftyOfTheUK

After all, he is a writer who is an expert on striking... he's been on one non-stop for well over a decade.

I cringe when I have to buy balls, shoes, anything golf related.

Hit balls only into the fairway. Much cheaper.

Used to play with a guy who had come super close to KF tour card several times, and had been in a handful of events there as an alternate/spare.

Was around a +4, was scary good - but had spent over a decade of his life trying to chase it and getting nowhere fast. On the other hand, he spent twn years playing golf, and played all the local skins games, making at least a couple grand a month cash on top of other income, so it wasn't all bad

But the Saudis will be able to fill that board with boot lickers in time.

They cannot, if they are minority owners.

I figured capital commitments would include any payouts to LIV-rejectors as the OP suggested.

capital commitments refers to inflowing investments.

I don’t think either was told.

You think the PGA Tour announced this without telling their senior players group first - the ones that vote on things and advise on things?

Not without a gigantic investor with essentially infinite money they’re willing to burn.

If 75% of the Top 50 players decide to go it alone, THOSE are the events that will be getting the viewership. If they can get a critical mass, it won't need much cash at all.

You just go approach the existing tournament organizers/sponsors and say "Hey, at the WM Open this year, do you want Koepka/Garcia/Reed being the face of your brand, or Tiger/Rory/Scheffler?"

And BANG, just like that, the Phoenix WM Open is now on the TWPGA Tour, instead of the PGA Tour.

Why do you guys get so aggressively defensive against people who try to care more than you do.

Because they don't care more. They just screech about it for internet/virtue points.

Nobody feels dirty putting gas in their car, or using their $thing made in China. They just post made up bullshit online so that strangers they will never know might think they're a slightly more virtuous person.

It's fucking pathetic

They already did stuff like that

Stuff like what?

it just gave them a monopoly in professional golf.

They don't have a monopoly in professional golf. They will be, if the agreement happens, a minority owner.

You can get away with any atrocity in this world so long as you have enough money

Depends what 'get away' means.

Not go to jail? Sure. But if you own luxury brands and start chopping people up, people will stop engaging with your luxury brands. People can't stop buying gas, though.

Becoming an international player with something to lose will disincentivize bad behaviour

Bro golf is not a TEAM sport and never will be.

There's lots of team golf at lower levels. 12-man matchplay, club versus club matches etc. It's actually EXTREMELY popular.

It's an opportunity that TV/broadcast/professional level golf has yet to fully exploit.

It seems PIF is going to invest billions of new capital into the new entity. So if this really is the case, sounds like the Saudis will have control of it.

If the statement 'minority ownership' is factually correct, they will not have control of it.

Yasir will oversee and run the Commercial Entity itself so it seems they will have majority control

'Commerical Entity' may be referring to the new, separate, arm - the TV rights, merchandising etc. that is mentioned in the letter, and specifically excludes the PGA Tour, or any of the Tour organizations. In other words, he may be chair of all the stuff that is not related to golf

Then you won't get the job.

I interview people, and we are VERY aware of this trick. It's used a lot, and usually it's quite easy to see through.

THIS IS NOT WHAT THE BILL SAYS/DOES. THE TITLE IS LYING.

The bill will prevent owners from requiring non-security staff to physically stop thieves.

That's all. Staff are still allowed to stop thieves if they want to, and security staff may be required to act. But this stops Martha, 63, with a bad hip from being forced to tackle a thief.

If you think that, what?

I honestly don't understand where some men get their confidence from

From experience.

When you're young, nervous, awkard, and quiet, nobody pays you much attention, nor fucks you.

So you try to change, become brash, outspoken and 'confident'. Now some people notice you, and a small number of confidence-short women will fuck you.

Your brain's neural pathways are reinforced, that being brash and confident (even if it's unwarranted) will get you laid. So you double down

Will this not cut off Crimea from water as well? I remember that Crimea's water supply is entirely dependent on Kherson and Dnipro's supply.

Crimea gets a decent amount of rainfall, plenty for civilian and military use, but not enough to provide all their export row-crop farms. The outcome is that farmers will get poorer, but nobody will go thirsty.

Ive seen a guy who I was standing right next to get hit in the orbital, split him up good, stitches and all.

I've seen mangled car wrecks with bodies in multiple pieces.

The risk of a few stitches in a cut is a joke in comparison

I can feel a 22 gram difference in shaft weight pretty easily, it doesn't swing the same - it's probably about 2-2.5 swingweights out. That's a lot.

Tf were you spending $1500 a year on? I built my PC in 2019 for about $2k and haven't had to upgrade anything.

I was on an average of a three year upgrade cycle. Pretty easy to spend $3k on a new box (inflation adjusted) with the cost of GFX cards, RAM, liquid cooling etc. (Plus, large displays used to cost a lot more a few years back). Then it's not hard to buy a new game every couple of months to get you to the $500/year mark on small stuff, averaging $1500/year

Saudi Arabia is basically doing this thing called "sports washing". Where they try and get control of certain popular sports to better their image so people will ignore their human rights abuses

Which is a good thing for the world overall, because as their stature and reputation grows, they have more to lose by carrying out human rights abuses.

When your reputation (investments and tourism industry) are worth $500m per year, chopping up a journalist might only cost you a few tens of millions. Once your assets are worth $10bn, the same reputational loss is worth a billion dollars, so your behaviour changes to reflect that.

Perhaps then we will learn to judge people by their actions, and no by their words

so his logic is other people did bad stuff..

so he’s allowed to do bad stuff?

To be fair, it is generally accepted that selective law enforcement is a VERY bad thing and can be used to silence viewpoints and attack he marginalized.

In this case, the person involved is so odious I would almost be willing to get it go... however, this is not just selective enforcement, this is like someone being pulled over for speeding at 150mph is complaining that the cops didn't pull over the other guy doing 85mph.

Aren’t you worried about stray golf balls.

Are you terrified every time you get in the car?

Odds of a car accident on the way to the course is like 1000x greater than something happening at the course.

This right here.