Running 2022 Golf Thread

I am.

 

Fair enough, and it's your right.
But next month apparently Biden is flying to Riyadh to kiss the ring of Saudi Arabia. What's the difference between that and Phil pocketing their generational-wealth level blood money?

 

There is no difference.

I can condemn both. Both as US petropolitics and reputation-laundering on behalf of MBS.

That MBS dismembered a journalist is of some specific interest to me.

On top of which I'm old enough to remember whence most of the 9/11 hijackers came to us.

I get it. Gotta have gas.

But at what fucking price to the national soul?

 

For the best. He has precisely one chance left in his career to win a major, and it's in July at the Old Course.

 

We still doin' business with the nuclear power that runs over its own citizens with tanks and has an ethnic minority tortured and killed in concentration camps? Can't keep it all straight.

 

Spot. On.

 

When Lefty joins the Tiananmen Tour we can condemn that, too.

Speaking of which, per Patrick Hruby, what's in this for Saudi Arabia? Of all the things MBS could choose to throw a billion dollars at, why golf?

New tourist initiative?

 

No. Women.