“There’s not much we can say about the PGA Tour announcement, as we are still learning more about what it means for everyone involved. “We’re planning on delivering another world-class Travelers Championship, which starts in 13 days,” read a statement from tournament officials. What does it mean for the Travelers Championship, the week each June in which Connecticut shines on the national sports stage? We’ll have to see where the money leads, though ESPN was reporting the plan is for the PGA Tour to go on more or less as it will in 2023. What does it mean? Short answer: More money for those in a position to grab for it, and more powerful detergent for sportswashers. I guess maybe their concerns weren't really about human rights? PGA officials were in my office just months ago talking about how the Saudis' human rights record should disqualify them from having a stake in a major American sport. There comes a point where peace becomes less expensive than principle. This is, more or less, how and why the NFL ended its war with the AFL, the NBA with the ABA, the NHL with the WHA. All the litigation had to go away, and it did with the strokes of their pens. But the war was costing both sides money, so what commissioner Jay Monahan insisted for a year would not happen, did happen. They perceived that, although the war was dividing the golf world, the PGA was winning and LIV was losing money. The players themselves, based on reactions reported, had no idea this was coming. They’d always done business, at least indirectly, with Saudi money. The PGA was assigned the moral high ground, but didn’t really occupy it. So for those golfers who were sincerely outraged over LIV Golf, and fans and pundits who backed the PGA on moral grounds, it’s egg-on-the-face time. I guess maybe their concerns weren’t really about human rights?” “PGA officials were in my office just months ago talking about how the Saudis’ human rights record should disqualify them from having a stake in a major American sport.
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