It never has been. The popularity of Tiger Woods sparked a very brief, and largely futile, push to get urban minority youth to take up golf, but it is a very expensive sport to take part in. You can play public courses cheaply, but the costs of equipment and instruction are prohibitive for most. Tennis, the other "country club" sport, has done much better in that regard. The sport not only has Black stars and role models; it also can be played on asphalt courts in cities, and many high schools have tennis courts and varsity teams.
Or the international management of golf finds profitable ways of commercializing youth golf and figures out how to make it playable in densely populated urban areas.
They are not selling out. If you see a tank coming towards you, you step out of the way.
No, you're not alone. I'll repeat what I wrote up above: If I gave a rat's ass about golf I'd be highly offended. But I've been highly offended by the Saudi regime for decades. The reasons are legion. Supporting (or more accurately, trying to buy off) terrorists so they'd leave *them* alone. Fighting a proxy war in a neighboring country. Wahabbiism. Killing and dismembering Jamal Kashoggi in Saudi's Turkish embassy. Expecting the US military to be their mercenary army. Shall I continue? (That was just off the top of my head, no research necessary, no Googles harmed in the making of this post.)
If I took nothing else away from this discussion thus far, it is this.
PGA Tour deals will remain the same. LIV might end up folded into the European (DP World) Tour next year for the most part, and end up on Golf Channel. CW deal is a revenue-sharing deal and there hasn't been revenue to share.
Maybe, but the phrase "What a revoltin' development this is!" belongs to one Chester A. Riley, the lead character on The Life of Riley, played by Jackie Gleason (NBC-TV, 1949-50) and more famously by William Bendix on radio (1944-51), a movie (1949), and a later (1953-58, also on NBC) TV show.
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The PGA warned players that joined LIV they would be punished. Now the ones who stayed(and didn't take the money)are being forced in. This is a very bad look for the PGA, especially since the players weren't involved in the process.So much for taking the moral high ground!
PGA Tour agrees to merge with Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf
The PGA Tour is merging with Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf, following months of tensions and mounting lawsuits between the competitors.www.cnbc.com
So will all professional golfers now be free to play in any tournament they want to, whether it's branded "PGA" or "LIV"? Will the LIV tournaments continue to be 54 holes instead of 72? Will the entire LIV schedule run on the same weekends as the PGA's? In short, will the current rosters of the PGA and LIV Golf mean anything post-merger, or will they be more like WWE's Raw and Smackdown rosters, a gimmick designed to draw eyeballs to two separate television programs, with the rosters selected in a choreographed "draft"?
No.
There has been much discussion and concern in hockey forums I read that the sport has become too expensive and that youth participation is declining. All that equipment costs a lot of money. Other sports are cheap in comparison.
And in hockey you need an ice rink, and ice time can be expensive as well.
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