Month: September 2024

The “Dead” Presidents Cup

Presidents Cup Trophy Photo courtesy of bvmsports.com

I forced myself to watch a little bit of the Presidents Cup on Thursday, with hopes the International squad was going to do something exciting against the American team.  Of course, it was the same old song, the United States finished the day with a 5-0 sweep.

The coverage? The same old NBC Sports/Golf Channel coverage, not much golf and a lot of nonsense.

The Canadian fans were as dull as a butter knife. Not event Tom Kim could bring those people to cheer.

The course looked beautiful on television, but that is as far as I can go on praising this event.

The International team is taking on an American team that cannot be beaten without the best International players.

Before you go on to say the event is a PGA Tour sanctioned event therefore LIV Golf players are not eligible, I will not disagree with you.

Having said that, let me say to you the PGA Tour always do whatever they want to do as long as it is convenient for the PGA Tour.  They change the rules as they please time and time again.

The International team did not have a chance to begin with. You cannot compete without the best international players on your team. With all do respect to Captain Weir, he did not pick the best international players to win this competition.

Like it or not, the best international players at this moment are in LIV Golf. Again, the PGA Tour changes the rules all the time, they could have done the same this time and allow Captain Weir a chance to pick a winning team.

Having said that, I am not sure if Captain Weir even brought up the subject, so I am going to assume he toed the line and went along with whatever the PGA Tour mafia told him to do.

It is a shame, but this competition has become a joke. You cannot expect to be taken seriously when the best players are not in the field.

These are not the best international players in the world. On the other hand, these are the best American payers in the world, even ignoring the corrupt OWGR system.

Which players got left out from consideration? Abraham Ancer, Carlos Ortiz, Joaquin Niemann, Dean Burmester, Louis Oosthuizen, Cameron Smith, Lucas Herbert, Anirban Lahiri, Marc Leishman, Sebastian Munoz, and Mito Pereira. These guys are the hottest international players in LIV Golf, hands down.

Go to the DPWT, and the list is even bigger. No Triston Lawrence on the International Team? Seriously?

As the great William Shakespeare once wrote, “Heavy is the head that wears the crown.” Unfortunately, the PGA Tour does not understand their responsibility and the importance of having the best players in the field, regardless of tour or corrupt OWGR influence.

LIV Golf League And Buyer’s Remorse

Is Jon Rahm On His Way Out of LIV Golf?

Is this the face of Buyer’s Remorse? Photo courtesy of yardbarker.com

A year ago, LIV Golf was rejoicing with the signing of their biggest star today, Jon Rahm. They gave him a huge contract, including his own team, Legion XIII.

There is no denying that Legion XIII has done pretty well in their first year, including Rahm winning the 2024 Individual LIV Golf Championship.

But it was not an easy trek for the Spaniard in 2024. He did not perform well in the Major Championships, withdrawing from the U.S. Open with a foot injury, and it took him several starts to win his first LIV Golf individual championship in England.

Rumors have been floating around about Rahm’s feelings and the LIV Golf League. Mostly coming from voices on the Golf Channel, who are not in love with LIV Golf and will go at any length to discredit the league.

I personally posted the question about Rahm’s rumors to LIV Golf via their YouTube channel and got no response from their PR department, Greg Norman, or Jon Rahm.

Fast forward to LIV Golf Individual Championship week. During his press conference, Rahm was asked about his future in the DPWT and the ongoing saga on the payment of fines and his participation in the Ryder Cup.

Rahm said that he was not planning to pay fines, and he wanted to be part of the Ryder Cup. At this time, the case has been reviewed by a DPWT panel and in the meantime he will be eligible to play in the Acciona Open De España .

To add more mud to the already murky waters, Rahm skipped the LIV Golf Team Championship citing an illness. I would guess he let Norman know from Spain as the Acciona Open De Espana is going to be played this week.

Most LIV Golf doubters will see this as a “Buyer’s Remorse” move from Rahm. I do not know what it means, but in the absence of LIV Golf management addressing the aforementioned rumors, it is easy for the opposition to create lots of chatter.

Will we see Jon Rahm in LIV Golf next season? Perhaps or perhaps not. The PGA Tour would be smart to buy his contract out from LIV Golf and return him to the PGA Tour, but I am not sure how these contracts have been negotiated to begin with.

One thing is certain, Rahm leaving his team out to dry during the LIV Golf Team Championship is not what been a team captain is all about and has left a lot of questions about his future with LIV Golf.             

Hit Them With Your Wallet

How To Reject Woke Culture With Your Personal Wealth

Very much so!
Photo courtesy of alamy.com

Since the Obama years, this country has been peppered with woke culture left and right. From companies adopting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies to government agencies lowering standards of employment in the name of “equality.”

Companies like Meineke, Safelite, and Vrbo, to name a few, want you to think masculinity is a thing of the past as they continue to feminize males in their television commercials.  

Financial services companies like Chime and SoFi encourage financial irresponsibility by offering their customers the ability to access money they haven’t earned.

Advertising companies continue to use people in their television commercials who are not representative of the overall make up of American society. Omitting those with the purchasing power is not a winning strategy, but companies continue to fall down that rabbit hole. They think this omission is the right thing to do because of their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies.

I decided a long time ago that I was not going to cater to these companies and institutions. They have the right to conduct their business and aimed their advertising to certain segments of the population, but I also have the right to choose who I will give my business to.

During Covid, I refused to patronized businesses who wanted me to wear a mask. Despite the fact our government said masks were useless, these businesses insisted on enforcing it. I have adopted the same approach towards the DEI culture and any company who pushes this nonsense down our throats.

My first victim was XM satellite radio. I got a 3-month freebie from my car dealership after a service, but after those three months I decided XM was not for me.  The service is expensive, and the programming is poor. Any broadcasting service who excludes a race of people should not be allowed to exist.

For example, why do they have to have Black channels only? If any other outlet would offer White only channels that would be deemed racists, but for some reason XM gets away with it. So, when they called me to subscribe to the service, I told them no thanks.

The best part was when the customer service representative asked me why. I told him I was not going to patronize a business who excluded a group of people based on their skin color. I added their programming was not geared towards people like me, and I was not going to pay for a service that was not inclusive.

I have to say that it felt really good, very refreshing knowing the power of my personal purse is a powerful one. Unlike our Congress, I do understand the power my money has over my everyday life decisions.

XM is not the only company I have rejected in my everyday life, but I think you understand where I am coming from.

You do not have to settle for less.  You have the power to tell these companies, no. Money moves the world, and as a consumer you have the power to reject companies who do not share your values.

Your hard-earned money means something, use it wisely.