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6 minutes ago, Patch said:

Read a while back that the purse is now $9 million. Apparently the $10 million number interfered with the FedEx $10 million number.  The PGA decided on $9 million. 

You mean the PGA Tour. And they didn't "decide" it, but I'm sure they shared their opinion…

It's more official now, too:

 

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10 hours ago, iacas said:

You mean the PGA Tour. And they didn't "decide" it, but I'm sure they shared their opinion…

It's more official now, too:

 

Ooooh. Trash talk out of the gate! 

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This is just grossly vulgar.  Millionaires/approaching Billionaires playing one round of golf for what equals to about 500 American's yearly salary.  

Bad optics in a time when Americans are growing weary of over-privileged rich athletes... 

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1 minute ago, Kokomo Joe said:

This is just grossly vulgar.  Millionaires/approaching Billionaires playing one round of golf for what equals to about 500 American's yearly salary.  

Bad optics in a time when Americans are growing weary of over-privileged rich athletes... 

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I'll just say I completely disagree with @Kokomo Joe and I'm looking forward to it.

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25 minutes ago, Kokomo Joe said:

This is just grossly vulgar.  Millionaires/approaching Billionaires playing one round of golf for what equals to about 500 American's yearly salary.  

It's not vulgar at all.

26 minutes ago, Kokomo Joe said:

Bad optics in a time when Americans are growing weary of over-privileged rich athletes... 

Yea, your optics on this are completely off.

20 minutes ago, iacas said:

I'll just say I completely disagree with @Kokomo Joe and I'm looking forward to it.

Ditto! I think PGA Tour players should play more 1 v 1 matches. I wouldn't mind seeing a small tournament having the top 8 golfers play a bracket format match. Maybe, just #1 versus #2 play a match a year.

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I don't really care who wins as long as it's entertaining. If they will be micced, that's hopefully a given, but I also hope it won't be a washout where one of them wins by 10 strokes.

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20 minutes ago, Kokomo Joe said:

This is just grossly vulgar.  Millionaires/approaching Billionaires playing one round of golf for what equals to about 500 American's yearly salary.  

Bad optics in a time when Americans are growing weary of over-privileged rich athletes... 

Don't understand this. It's not a federal mandate or anything. There's choice involved. This is great fun and fraction of a cost to us individually.

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3 minutes ago, GolfLug said:

Don't understand this. It's not a federal mandate or anything. There's choice involved. This is great fun and fraction of a cost to us individually.

no no no, social warriors/dogmatic believers don't care about choice in anything.  Freedom keeps people from doing/thinking their way - it's bad.

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Phil is currently leading the Northern Trust at -8. Maybe the match got him into serious mode. Let's see if Tiger responds with a 64.

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On 7/6/2018 at 6:49 PM, Buckeyebowman said:

Exactly what the local radio sports guy said! This is happening 10 years too late!

Of course, if you saw the galleries Tiger was dragging around at the Quicken Loans, you might reconsider.

No sports fans are more nostalgic than golf fans. If they could resurrect Arnie from the grave and pair him against Jack, the numbers would be shocking!

Yeah, but you know what Arnie would be doing if he were alive today? Clawing away at the inside of his casket.

On 8/9/2018 at 1:13 PM, PeaceFrogg said:

If ifs and buts were candies and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas!

Hard to get to #1 when you can't win a golf tournament. Even intimating he can get to #1 next year is patently ridiculous.

You got Candies and Nuts for Christmas? All I got was socks and underwear....

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14 minutes ago, AlDena said:

You got Candies and Nuts for Christmas? All I got was socks and underwear....

Excellent gifts...you can never have enough.

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3 hours ago, Zeph said:

Phil is currently leading the Northern Trust at -8. Maybe the match got him into serious mode. Let's see if Tiger responds with a 64.

He’s trying to make the Ryder Cup.

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On 8/24/2018 at 6:55 AM, Kokomo Joe said:

This is just grossly vulgar.  Millionaires/approaching Billionaires playing one round of golf for what equals to about 500 American's yearly salary.  

Bad optics in a time when Americans are growing weary of over-privileged rich athletes... 

👎What a sourpuss.  This is just a business deal someone is putting together betting they can pay out $9 million plus and still make a buck for themselves.  This is what free markets are, take a risk, make money or lose as the case may be.  It isn't costing you a dime and isn't harming you in anyway I can see. Why do you care?

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I am looking forward to this and I will be tuning in, but I wonder how they will fill the time in between shots? It will be like a 5 hour sudden death play off where you have to wait for them to walk from place to place. No switching to play elsewhere on the course. Probably endless adds. Maybe I should record the first nine holes and then fast forward through the crap? My dad is the master of that move.

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Theoretically Woods could win the FedEx Cup and against Mickelson and win 20m. 

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On 8/24/2018 at 7:55 AM, Kokomo Joe said:

This is just grossly vulgar.  Millionaires/approaching Billionaires playing one round of golf for what equals to about 500 American's yearly salary.  

Bad optics in a time when Americans are growing weary of over-privileged rich athletes... 

Nice virtue signalling.

Now do what you make compared to 500 starving 3rd worlders.

But then again, what the hell do I know?

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13 minutes ago, nevets88 said:

Theoretically Woods could win the FedEx Cup and against Mickelson and win 20m. 

$19M. 🙂

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