When the LIV Tour arrived, I was angry at the players who defected. When the PGA Tour decided to team up with the Saudi’s I was livid.
During this whole soap opera I likened the situation to the USFL and thought that the PGA should have been able to fend off the LIV Tour. However, I’ve now completely changed my mind., We should all be extremely concerned about what has happened, because this isn’t about golf, this is about overwhelming wealth controlling all of our lives.
The PGA’s position in court is accurate. The Saudi’s have unlimited wealth to buy anything they want. We all know it makes no economic sense whatsoever for Koepka to be paid $100m for a little bit of crap golf, but the Saudi’s can do it because the royal family has stolen its country’s wealth for decades.
If you aren’t paying attention to this, you should. Russian oligarchs, the Saudi’s and other billionaire blood money is amassing so much wealth they are buying everything out there: land, real estate, sports clubs, etc. You can’t compete against unlimited wealth.
When I saw that several players from the PGA Tour show on Netflix called Drive had defected to LIV right after taping of the show, I realized the PGA Tour was screwed.
We all better start fixing this wealth inequality issue or things are not going to end well for 90% of the world.