Golf prides itself as a sport where honour still matters. The PGA commissioner\u0027s hypocrisy is disqualifying. Read more here.
Monahan concluded: “I accept those criticisms. But circumstances do change. I think that in looking at the big picture and looking at it this way, that’s what got us to this point.
Cue the constructive engagers. Rather than improve Saudi society by boycotting everything LIV, the PGA will now be trying to improve the Saudis by “constructive engagement.” By working with them. And their money. And trying to raise up Saudi morality by exposing them on a daily basis to the shining example of the exemplary business ethics of their exemplary new colleagues on the merged entity’s board, such as Jay Monahan himself.
That might not work so well. Not any better than when our own Liberals tried it with Cuba and China and other “people’s autocracies” the left prefers not to criticize. The constructive engagers sometimes end up getting reconstructed themselves, as when prime ministers begin to practise Chinese-style stonewalling with Canadian characteristics.
On the substance of the new golf deal, anything that reduces the incomes of lawyers can’t be all bad. The PGA and LIV are going to stop suing each other, which should ease their cash drain. On the other hand, they’ll also stop providing embarrassing depositions about each other’s operations, including the PGA’s peculiar tax status as a non-profit.
There’s lots of talk in these first hours about how “unifying” golf will help the game. How, exactly? Those of us out there pounding the links are completely unaffected — except in terms of who we get to watch in TV tournaments. The people who actually play in those tournaments should regret the deal. As always happens when one new sports league takes on another, the workers’ compensation has skyrocketed. The PGA seriously increased its prize money in response to LIV.
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