2022 PGA Tour

[kirbivore]

Great job by Hudson Swofford but poor job this week by McElroy, Morikawa, Thompson and especially Seamus Power who blew up with a plus 5 on his first six holes yesterday to take himself right out of contention.

Had a $5 dart throw on Hoge at 140-1 to win. Should have invested some in T5, T10. Live and learn.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[Symphony Steve]

Clint Eastwood's kid is a celebrity?

BTW, DeChambeau's hurting with both wrist and back injuries today, and I'm enjoying it. Does that make me a bad person?

 

[jncuse]

I guess the PGA is experimenting with Saturday finish against a Sunday finish this year. I suppose its due to the NFL conference games - anybody else heard another reason.

First time I have ever seen them do this.

 

[MSOrange]

I guess the PGA is experimenting with Saturday finish against a Sunday finish this year. I suppose its due to the NFL conference games - anybody else heard another reason.

First time I have ever seen them do this.

Yes it's not to compete against the NFL this week.

 

[OburgOrange]

Luke LIst won his first PGA event today. Somewhere Bulldog04 is popping some champagne! Congrats

Also, what an approach shot on 18 in OT! Wow!

Will you guys be in Harbor Town this year? I’ll be going for sure

 

[Symphony Steve]

PGA Tour Players Accept Saudi Blood Money. It's not just for the WWE any more. Led by Greg Norman, who negotiated the whole megillah:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/01/06/pga-players-saudi-international-phil-mickelson-rory-mcilroy/

"Follow along. It’s not that difficult. In October, former world No. 1 Greg Norman was named CEO of LIV Golf Investments, an entity that created a “strategic partnership” with the Asian Tour to sponsor 10 tournaments in 2022 and pump $200 million into the circuit over the next decade. The first is the Saudi International powered by SoftBank Investment Advisers, to be held Feb. 3-6 at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The primary investor in Norman’s group is the Public Investment Fund, which is essentially the financial arm of the Saudi government, a regime run by authoritarian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman."

Here are the players who have agreed to participate, and to pocket blood money just for showing up:

• Abraham Ancer
• Adri Arnaus
• Rafael Cabrera Bello
• Paul Casey
• Bryson DeChambeau
• Jason Dufner
• Tommy Fleetwood
• Sergio Garcia
• Tyrrell Hatton
• Dustin Johnson
• Jason Kokrak
• Shane Lowry
• Graeme McDowell
• Phil Mickelson
• Kevin Na
• Joaquin Niemann
• Louis Oosthuizen
• Ian Poulter
• Xander Schauffele
• Henrik Stenson
• Harold Varner III
• Jhonattan Vegas
• Bubba Watson
• Lee Westwood

Other than taking blood money, they have one more thing in common: They don't need the money.

 

[GoSU96]

PGA Tour Players Accept Saudi Blood Money. It's not just for the WWE any more. Led by Greg Norman, who negotiated the whole megillah:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/01/06/pga-players-saudi-international-phil-mickelson-rory-mcilroy/

"Follow along. It’s not that difficult. In October, former world No. 1 Greg Norman was named CEO of LIV Golf Investments, an entity that created a “strategic partnership” with the Asian Tour to sponsor 10 tournaments in 2022 and pump $200 million into the circuit over the next decade. The first is the Saudi International powered by SoftBank Investment Advisers, to be held Feb. 3-6 at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The primary investor in Norman’s group is the Public Investment Fund, which is essentially the financial arm of the Saudi government, a regime run by authoritarian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman."

Here are the players who have agreed to participate, and to pocket blood money just for showing up:

• Abraham Ancer
• Adri Arnaus
• Rafael Cabrera Bello
• Paul Casey
• Bryson DeChambeau
• Jason Dufner
• Tommy Fleetwood
• Sergio Garcia
• Tyrrell Hatton
• Dustin Johnson
• Jason Kokrak
• Shane Lowry
• Graeme McDowell
• Phil Mickelson
• Kevin Na
• Joaquin Niemann
• Louis Oosthuizen
• Ian Poulter
• Xander Schauffele
• Henrik Stenson
• Harold Varner III
• Jhonattan Vegas
• Bubba Watson
• Lee Westwood

Other than taking blood money, they have one more thing in common: They don't need the money.

Blood money?

yeesh

 

[Symphony Steve]

Blood money?

yeesh

Read--or don't read:

Saudi Arabia: Unrelenting Repression

Saudi authorities carried out a sweeping campaign of repression against independent dissidents and activists, including two waves of mass arrests, in 2019, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2020.

www.hrw.org

Repression, Brutality, Impunity: An Overview of Human Rights Defenders in Saudi Arabia | Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain

For years, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been increasing its repression of human rights defenders (HRDs). In order to silence dissidents, government authorities arbitrarily interrogate, detain and imprison HRDs under the Anti-Terrorism Law and the Anti-Cybercrime Law for their peaceful...

www.adhrb.org

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/06/saudi-arabia-mbs-fear-repression-jamal-khashoggi-foreign-correspondent/

Saudi Arabia steps up repression after G20 presidency

Saudi authorities have intensified their crackdown against critics and stepped up executions over the past six months

www.amnesty.org

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[GoSU96]

Read--or don't read:

Saudi Arabia: Unrelenting Repression

Saudi authorities carried out a sweeping campaign of repression against independent dissidents and activists, including two waves of mass arrests, in 2019, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2020.

www.hrw.org

Repression, Brutality, Impunity: An Overview of Human Rights Defenders in Saudi Arabia | Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain

For years, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been increasing its repression of human rights defenders (HRDs). In order to silence dissidents, government authorities arbitrarily interrogate, detain and imprison HRDs under the Anti-Terrorism Law and the Anti-Cybercrime Law for their peaceful...

www.adhrb.org

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/06/saudi-arabia-mbs-fear-repression-jamal-khashoggi-foreign-correspondent/

Saudi Arabia steps up repression after G20 presidency

Saudi authorities have intensified their crackdown against critics and stepped up executions over the past six months

www.amnesty.org

I’m well aware of PIF, KSA. If I never go back to Riyadh, I’d be perfectly happy with that. It’s a small country with big influence in a danger neighborhood. They are cautiously liberalizing and diversifying the economy and while trying to avoid turning into a Sunni Iran, which is THE cautionary tale of the region.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

PGA Tour Players Accept Saudi Blood Money. It's not just for the WWE any more. Led by Greg Norman, who negotiated the whole megillah:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/01/06/pga-players-saudi-international-phil-mickelson-rory-mcilroy/

"Follow along. It’s not that difficult. In October, former world No. 1 Greg Norman was named CEO of LIV Golf Investments, an entity that created a “strategic partnership” with the Asian Tour to sponsor 10 tournaments in 2022 and pump $200 million into the circuit over the next decade. The first is the Saudi International powered by SoftBank Investment Advisers, to be held Feb. 3-6 at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The primary investor in Norman’s group is the Public Investment Fund, which is essentially the financial arm of the Saudi government, a regime run by authoritarian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman."

Here are the players who have agreed to participate, and to pocket blood money just for showing up:

• Abraham Ancer
• Adri Arnaus
• Rafael Cabrera Bello
• Paul Casey
• Bryson DeChambeau
• Jason Dufner
• Tommy Fleetwood
• Sergio Garcia
• Tyrrell Hatton
• Dustin Johnson
• Jason Kokrak
• Shane Lowry
• Graeme McDowell
• Phil Mickelson
• Kevin Na
• Joaquin Niemann
• Louis Oosthuizen
• Ian Poulter
• Xander Schauffele
• Henrik Stenson
• Harold Varner III
• Jhonattan Vegas
• Bubba Watson
• Lee Westwood

Other than taking blood money, they have one more thing in common: They don't need the money.

I've mentioned before that I just don't like Phil. Never have and never will. Weird, especially because he is well liked and a lefty golfer like myself. All the other lefties I like, just not Phil. So, I am sure everyone read what he said this week about the PGA being greedy. If some people want to stick up for Phil, that's great. But as far as I am concerned, every night before he goes to sleep, he should thank Tiger and thank the PGA for making him extremely wealthy. And probably thank God as well for giving him a lot of natural talent for being able to play a game that has enabled him to accumulate around $400 million in wealth.

Phil Mickelson sounds off on 'obnoxious greed' of PGA Tour as rival leagues dig in

Lefty had some interesting quotes about the future of golf in Saudi Arabia

www.cbssports.com

 

[Symphony Steve]

I've mentioned before that I just don't like Phil. Never have and never will. Weird, especially because he is well liked and a lefty golfer like myself. All the other lefties I like, just not Phil. So, I am sure everyone read what he said this week about the PGA being greedy. If some people want to stick up for Phil, that's great. But as far as I am concerned, every night before he goes to sleep, he should thank Tiger and thank the PGA for making him extremely wealthy. And probably thank God as well for giving him a lot of natural talent for being able to play a game that has enabled him to accumulate around $400 million in wealth.

Phil Mickelson sounds off on 'obnoxious greed' of PGA Tour as rival leagues dig in

Lefty had some interesting quotes about the future of golf in Saudi Arabia

www.cbssports.com

Not so sure how well he is liked by the other PGA golfers. They've nicknamed him 'FIGJAM'. As in 'F#@$, I'm The Greatest, Just Ask Me'.

 

[Newhouser]

Not so sure how well he is liked by the other PGA golfers. They've nicknamed him 'FIGJAM'. As in 'F#@$, I'm The Greatest, Just Ask Me'.

And his other nickname replacing the M with a capital D.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Clint Eastwood's kid is a celebrity?

BTW, DeChambeau's hurting with both wrist and back injuries today, and I'm enjoying it. Does that make me a bad person?

Just that… no

 

[Symphony Steve]

Just that… no

Which reminds me...Bryson showed up in Saudi Arabia, collected his fee for just showing up, played one round, withdrew due to injury, then told everybody not to worry about his injury:

'Everyone needs to chill': Bryson Dechambeau responds to chatter about his WD from Saudi Arabia

Bryson DeChambeau posted on Instagram that he slipped and fell on Tuesday.

golfweek.usatoday.com

OK. I won't.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[Symphony Steve]

Yeah, 77 plus 25 amateurs just wasn't gonna cut it.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Which reminds me...Bryson showed up in Saudi Arabia, collected his fee for just showing up, played one round, withdrew due to injury, then told everybody not to worry about his injury:

'Everyone needs to chill': Bryson Dechambeau responds to chatter about his WD from Saudi Arabia

Bryson DeChambeau posted on Instagram that he slipped and fell on Tuesday.

golfweek.usatoday.com

OK. I won't.

Screw the Saudis.

 

[GoSU96]

One of these days I‘ll make the trip to Pebble.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

One of these days I‘ll make the trip to Pebble.

It was awesome and I am not (yet) a good golfer. If you want to pack your week, you could play the 2 courses at Half Moon Bay, then drop down to Carmel and play the 4 courses that Pebble owns. That’s a full week.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Bad Spieth

 

[690West]

Feel so good for Hoge. He will 100% get a jersey mike’s deal this week

 

[690West]

One of these days I‘ll make the trip to Pebble.

I played it Easter Sunday in 1998. It was only $325 back then. I parred #1 and proceeded to shoot 105. Lol