Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Professional Hypocrisy

A year after standing up for human rights and opposing cooperation with the Saudi-funded LIV Tour, the Professional Golfers' Association has decided that Saudi money is just too good to turn down, a slap in the face to loyal players who defended the grand traditions of the organization.

As I discussed in Choosing Money over Morality, the PGA initially took the moral high ground, criticizing those players who left for the LIV Tour and cutting them off from participation in PGA tournaments.

How the complexities of this appalling and reckless decision will play out remains to be seen but the PGA has lost any integrity that it once claimed to value.  Hopefully, they will lose many fans and sponsors as well; I, for one, will not support their hypocrisy.