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Saudi World Golf Tour 2022/2023 Thread

Hell, many of us are mad and we are just fans. Doesn't mean we go around conjuring up stories to fit our narrative though.
 
You know when I read DR's stuff I have a hard time believing he's not some burger flipper punking us from his Mom's basement, but some of you seem to know he's a real person, so it always leaves me really amazed someone like that actually exists.
 
once again DR has managed to take a thread and get it completely off the rails. Well done sir
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For Deac's Sake said:
I try hard not to engage with you in this forum given the repetitive, reductive, and frankly exhausting nature of your posts. However, I've seen you make several other comments about Zalatoris recently and have restrained myself, but I have to interject at this point. What you're stating is simply not true. I'm close friends with Will's manager and have been since our days at Wake. I also work closely with a longtime Zalatoris family friend from Dallas who is very close with Will. I had dinner with Will's manager as recently as several weeks ago and we talked about all of this. I saw the LIV offer to Will last year. There were detailed conversations between Will, his team, and his parents. The unanimous decision, of which Will played an active and willing part, was that he stood to gain more in lifetime earnings from a career on tour than the upfront money from LIV, factoring in all sorts of variables such as the PGA tour pension plan, sponsor money (and the very real likelihood of loss of sponsor money moving to LIV at the time), etc.

While the possibility of an unforeseen career limiting/ending injury (and to be clear, I'm not saying that's what Will has) always exists, I can tell you that didn't factor into the decision making process at the time for a 25 year old rising star. People like that don't make decisions out of fear (which is exactly what a decision to move to LIV would've been. The ONLY justification, qualitatively and quantitatively, where it would've made sense for Will to take the LIV offer would've been a near certainty that he was about to imminently suffer a career-ending injury shortly after taking upfront LIV money). The mindset of a person who makes a career-defining decision out of fear is incompatible with the mindset needed to be a world-class athlete. So it never factored into his thought process.

Enough with the "Zalatoris is furious/has major regrets about not taking the money when he had a chance." Simply not true.
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WFcatamount22 said:
Before replying to this, we need DR to weigh in on why he feels comfortable bragging about his golf game whilst hitting from the tees in which women play.
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Guys, stop hating on his tee selection. Bad golfers SHOULD play up, it makes the game more enjoyable for them and for everyone playing with them and behind them! Hate should properly be directed at his claims of scores that have not made it into GHIN, which, assuming his claims are true, allows him to literally steal money from his gambling buddies (assuming he has any).
 
scooter84 said:
Guys, stop hating on his tee selection. Bad golfers SHOULD play up, it makes the game more enjoyable for them and for everyone playing with them and behind them! Hate should properly be directed at his claims of scores that have not made it into GHIN, which, assuming his claims are true, allows him to literally steal money from his gambling buddies (assuming he has any).
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Sure, but if his current handicap is correct, he doesn't need to be playing up at his age.
 
scooter84 said:
Guys, stop hating on his tee selection. Bad golfers SHOULD play up, it makes the game more enjoyable for them and for everyone playing with them and behind them! Hate should properly be directed at his claims of scores that have not made it into GHIN, which, assuming his claims are true, allows him to literally steal money from his gambling buddies (assuming he has any).
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The guys that play the back tees, but couldn't break 90 from the regular tees are worse, I do agree.
 
Any estimates on what Zalatoris was offered? I think Koepka got $50 million, so maybe $20 million?
 
Jroc25 said:
Any estimates on what Zalatoris was offered? I think Koepka got $50 million, so maybe $20 million?
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Varner got $15 million. I would think Zalatoris would be worth close to Koepka's number than Varner's.
 
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