cville deac
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In retrospect, there was probably an element of doubt because of the 2 year injury that influenced his decision.If the reason Brooks went to LIV was concern over if he’d ever be able to play at a top level again, I have no issue with it. I get the idea of getting next level wealth when you are concerned about your ability to keep doing your job at a high level.
There is still the blood money thing, but again I’d be a hypocrite if i said that would be my number one concern. I mean I still go to restaurants and purchase products from companies I have issues with. I watched every second of that blood washed World Cup. It’s easy to say any one of us would turn down a bag from the Saudi’s but we all compromise our values in commerce every damn day…whether we know it or not.
As to LIV, my primary issue is with Phil and Greg more so than the Saudis. Sportswashing has been around a long time. The Saudis could have sportswashed in a good way. Had they come me, I'd have said why don't you agree to double the pursee in the non-Rolex events on the DP tour so that it can now be called the DP Saud tour. That would have grown the game because those non-Rolex purses are a lot closer to LPGA events than PGA events, and the DP is generally almost as good a watch as average PGA tour stops. And I really like some of the courses they play. That would have cost the Saudis less than $100mil per year. Instead, they've backed an unsustainable tour that nobody watches just to let Phil and Greg enrich themselves. Phil and Greg are the architects of this crap, and they're essentially robbing the Saudis blind. I wonder what happens when Mohammad bin Salmon realizes that they've spent 3bil on a shit project.