| saudi golf 21:34 - Jun 6 with 6348 views | digswellhoop |
Any one like golf if European players go to this tour should they be banned from ryder cup |  | | |  |
| saudi golf on 21:55 - Jun 6 with 4371 views | essextaxiboy |
I love golf ,play every Weds with a bunch of old farts.
Yep I would ban them. |  | | |
| saudi golf on 01:18 - Jun 7 with 4202 views | Boston |
They should be hanged, drawn and empty quartered. | |
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| saudi golf on 03:01 - Jun 7 with 4182 views | HAYESBOY |
Yes, ban them from Presidents and Ryder Cup. |  |
| Smells like a trout farm in here |
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| saudi golf on 07:23 - Jun 7 with 4072 views | Paddyhoops |
The first tournament is in the Centurian club in St Albans. Which in fairness is in Hemel Hempstead but Hemel doesn't have how shall we say the same allure as St Albans.
It's a tournament for 40/50 something has beens like McDowell and Poulter. It might have the names but the standard won't be up too much.
Backed by the Saudis, run by Norman who's an apologist for a regime with no moral standards. | | | |
| saudi golf on 08:46 - Jun 7 with 3988 views | Rangers67 |
Not really a golf fan until the Ryder Cup comes around but I fail to see the difference between this and the world cup in Qatar. We should not be having anything to do with either of them | | | |
| saudi golf on 08:51 - Jun 7 with 3979 views | BostonR |
Only a matter of time before they entice the big European football clubs to join a Euro Super League. I can see it happening within the next 2-3 yrs. |  | | |
| saudi golf on 12:27 - Jun 7 with 3861 views | dsw2509 |
Stopped watching golf when the Open went to satellite TV.
Norman should be ashamed of himself. Anyone joining him is sportswashing a country that likes murdering its citizens.
Playing in this circus should result in a life ban from all ‘official’ majors. Hard to enforce though. Ryder Cup ban can and should be done. | | | |
| saudi golf on 12:47 - Jun 7 with 3837 views | themodfather |
oil money talks in any sport and human rights goes out of the window with morals, loyalty and all that for a few dollars more. | | | |
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| saudi golf on 14:44 - Jun 7 with 3736 views | BuckR |
Bit hard for the European Tour to be that outraged considering they happily host the Saudi Open each year - at the end of the day they are self employed contractors so hard to blame them following the insane amounts of money on offer | | | |
| saudi golf on 16:34 - Jun 7 with 3645 views | StevenageRanger |
Tricky one as some of the players have so much money I am suprised they are doing but guess there is always bigger boats, houses you can buy!
No cut so minimum you get is $120k for coming last and $4m to the winner.
No TV deal so on You Tube only. It does seem like a mid-age tour before joining the Seniors Tour!
PS - I have two free tickets for Friday and cant go now, can send on if anyone wants them. | | | |
| saudi golf on 18:54 - Jun 8 with 3437 views | rrrspricey |
Mickelson reportedly getting £140m and Johnson £120m just for turning up.
Ban em and also Newcastle from the prem at the same time for accepting PIFs dirty money |  | | |
| saudi golf on 20:18 - Jun 8 with 3341 views | digswellhoop |
agreed | | | |
| saudi golf on 21:34 - Jun 8 with 3281 views | DannyPaddox |
Saudi golf. You’d expect big bunkers.
Golf in the desert should really be the inverse of conventional golf. Instead of grassy lawns and roughs and the odd sandy bunker the course would be a huge expanse of sand with a few scattered lush oases. [Post edited 8 Jun 2022 23:00]
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| saudi golf on 22:09 - Jun 8 with 3217 views | Miss_Terraces |
| saudi golf on 16:34 - Jun 7 by StevenageRanger |
Tricky one as some of the players have so much money I am suprised they are doing but guess there is always bigger boats, houses you can buy!
No cut so minimum you get is $120k for coming last and $4m to the winner.
No TV deal so on You Tube only. It does seem like a mid-age tour before joining the Seniors Tour!
PS - I have two free tickets for Friday and cant go now, can send on if anyone wants them. |
Have they signed up because of the carrot or the stick? | |
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| saudi golf on 22:23 - Jun 8 with 3185 views | CliveWilsonSaid |
| saudi golf on 18:54 - Jun 8 by rrrspricey |
Mickelson reportedly getting £140m and Johnson £120m just for turning up.
Ban em and also Newcastle from the prem at the same time for accepting PIFs dirty money |
Only £120m? |  |
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| saudi golf on 23:17 - Jun 8 with 3087 views | distortR |
well, it's the hypocrisy of the whole thing. Castigate sportsmen - and golfers - while we arm them, while biden is preparing to visit them. Interesting reading the democrats take on dealing with saudi before they took power, btw. Or play for newcastle. or man city. or read the i newspaper or evening standard. or buy petrol. or use the phone. or go to a top university etc etc
as long as they take the knee and wear rainbow laces, it's all good isn't it? | | | |
| saudi golf on 23:26 - Jun 8 with 3059 views | digswellhoop |
i gree world cup should be cancelled ant saudi backed team should be banned | | | |
| saudi golf on 23:45 - Jun 8 with 3036 views | CliveWilsonSaid |
| saudi golf on 23:26 - Jun 8 by digswellhoop |
i gree world cup should be cancelled ant saudi backed team should be banned |
I don't think it should be cancelled. It would be much better that if you feel that strongly about it that you don't watch. | |
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| saudi golf on 07:27 - Jun 9 with 2865 views | essextaxiboy |
| saudi golf on 08:46 - Jun 7 by Rangers67 |
Not really a golf fan until the Ryder Cup comes around but I fail to see the difference between this and the world cup in Qatar. We should not be having anything to do with either of them |
Well the difference is that Quatar have not executed 85 people in one day or murdered a jounalist and dismembered his body .
The deaths in construction in Quatar have been happening for years ,before they were awarded the World Cup and the stadia constructed .
That the Cup is there at all is questionable(Blatter in court shortly) but FIFA would argue that it is shining a light on the issues and if Quatar want to move away from oil and turn to sport and tourism then they have to address them . | | | |
| saudi golf on 08:04 - Jun 9 with 2792 views | R_from_afar |
One of the participants - a very successful golfer, I can't remember who - was telling journalists he was joining the tour because it was best for his family, sounding to me very much like an impoverished and underprivileged worker from yesteryear explaining why he earned his crust on a whaling ship or down a mine...  |  |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| saudi golf on 08:24 - Jun 9 with 2766 views | stevec |
| saudi golf on 21:34 - Jun 8 by DannyPaddox |
Saudi golf. You’d expect big bunkers.
Golf in the desert should really be the inverse of conventional golf. Instead of grassy lawns and roughs and the odd sandy bunker the course would be a huge expanse of sand with a few scattered lush oases. [Post edited 8 Jun 2022 23:00]
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You clearly haven’t played Perivale in mid July. |  | | |
| saudi golf on 08:42 - Jun 9 with 2737 views | Rs_Holy |
| saudi golf on 18:54 - Jun 8 by rrrspricey |
Mickelson reportedly getting £140m and Johnson £120m just for turning up.
Ban em and also Newcastle from the prem at the same time for accepting PIFs dirty money |
the world has gone truly mad! |  | | |
| saudi golf on 08:48 - Jun 9 with 2726 views | sprocket |
how much is enough? | | | |
| saudi golf on 09:07 - Jun 9 with 2698 views | WokingR |
I think a lot of these golfers are finally waking up to the fact that sport and politics does sometimes overlap and they can't just offer the 'that's got nothing to do with me' answer.
BBC journalist yesterday made the very good point interviewing Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood, in asking is there anywhere or anyone they wouldn't play for if the money was right and then gave examples of Vladimir Putin or Apartheid in South Africa.
Both refused to answer but you could almost see the penny drop. |  | | |
| saudi golf on 09:08 - Jun 9 with 2697 views | Rangers67 |
| saudi golf on 07:27 - Jun 9 by essextaxiboy |
Well the difference is that Quatar have not executed 85 people in one day or murdered a jounalist and dismembered his body .
The deaths in construction in Quatar have been happening for years ,before they were awarded the World Cup and the stadia constructed .
That the Cup is there at all is questionable(Blatter in court shortly) but FIFA would argue that it is shining a light on the issues and if Quatar want to move away from oil and turn to sport and tourism then they have to address them . |
FIFA arguing anything on the morals front is quite frankly insulting to any sane person. Do you really think that when the backhanders were going round and all the shady deals were being done that the welfare of the people building the stadia and infrastructure was mentioned even once ? I realise that construction deaths in places like Qatar and Dubai etc have been at high levels for years which is exactly why they should not have been awarded the world cup in the first place. Sadly as we all know money talks across all societies and allows injustice to carry on . Having sadly witnessed first hand a few years ago the virtual slave labour conditions of the workers from both Africa and the Indian sub continent in Dubai I would never go anywhere near this part of the world again. | | | |
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