Golf Update

Since I know my 2 1/2 readers are all big golf fans I don ' t have to tell you that the U.S. Open champion is a British guy who was previously little known on this side of the pond, although he did win a U.S. amateur championship some years ago and has been successful on the European tour. The tournament was mildly interesting to me because it took place near my former home in Jamaica Plain and I used to drive by the site often on my way to Brookline and points west. Anyway, you couldn ' t care less about any of that. But what is actually interesting is that mass murderer, torturer and tyrant Mohammad bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, decided to found an alternative golf tour in order to legitimize his crimes against humanity. The idea was to dump vast millions of dollars onto PGA and European tour stars to entice them to defect. Then golf fans would watch their faves on the new so-called LIV tour and they ' d think MbS was cool for making it happen, apparently, or at least he must be an okay guy if Phil Mickelson says so.Mickelson is indeed the biggest " star " MbS managed to entice. He said that mass murder and human rights violations aren ' t his problem, he was joining the LIV tour to force the PGA to make " reforms. " I ' ll tell you exactly what " reforms " Mickelson has in mind. In case you didn ' t know, the way professional golf has worked from time immemorial is that standard tournaments last four days. The 70 or so players with the best scores on...
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