Golf Thread 2.0 - Zach Johnson hates you and your family

That's a really tough look for the tour.

Shitty golfer: they only care about stars.

Star: well actually they don't care about us either.

 

I assume the ones where he was hitting up high school girls got scrubbed

 

Oh fuck yeah, uhh, you can lose the violin for Grayson. I forget it was him that was creeping out underage girls on Twitter

 

If he was playing well he wouldn’t have written this. Probably all that needs to be said.

 

I know a couple people that know a couple people in this bracket really well (yeah, second hand info, whatever) and it sounds like it’s absolutely miserable even for the 50-125 range. You travel 30 weeks a year away from family, absolute constant pressure, the stress of every shot is incredible, you don’t know if your job is guaranteed more than a few months out, your job essentially revolves around finishing strong enough in the Bumfuck Classic to make it to the Players or a major, you may have signed a contract with a ‘sponsor’ when you were 23-24 who paid for all your Korn Ferry events and allowed you to make a living wage for 5 years but now gets 40% of your PGA Tour career earnings, etc etc. Do they have a better life than the average IT Manager in Bethesda making $85k a year? For sure. But by no means is it an easy life

 

Sorry- don’t have much sympathy for the 100th ranked PGA Tour player who has to fly twice a week and perform in high pressure situations in beautiful settings across the country for a chance to earn $1M+.

This isn’t a double A minor leaguer making $400 a week and crashing in a local family’s bonus room.

 

Well he's actually made less than those double A guys the last 7 weeks.

 

And he’s also completely responsible for all of his own expenses

 

Because he sucks, he made his own bed when it came to getting any sponsorship money(tour had nothing to do with that)

 

“winning every year can bring about other challenges” never change Phil!

 

I don't think Murray was complaining much when he made 2.5 million in 2017-18.

 

Double yikes. Yeah this dude can get fucked.

 

So, I have a wedding in Santa Cruz in September and i should probably make a Passatiempo tee time…right?

 

Yes

 

There are a lot of shitty, exploitative jobs for people age 22-27.

 

The 125th guy on tour in 2021 is at just under $900k and based on the article below getting at least $300k in sponsorship money. At $1.2M if you pay your caddie and other support staff 20% he's sitting on $960k less travel so call it $800k. You take home 60% of that and you're at just under half a million take home as the 125th money winner. Doesn't seem too bad

https://www.google.com/amp/s/golf.c...-made-and-paid-by-the-average-tour-pro/?amp=1

 

Every time pro athlete pay is brought up my mind always goes to this clip.

 

What this really gets down to is what is the function of the tour. They organize tournaments and put together sponsorships for the golfers. Do they have a responsibility to provide additional services to the card holders? Golf is such an outlier because of how individualistic it is. I’m also not saying they shouldn’t do it. More of that I am not surprised they don’t do those things.

 

Another point worth noting: when Chris Kirk was on the NLU pod last year he talked very specifically about his battle with alcoholism and the leave of absence he took from the Tour to get sober. He said the Tour was very accommodating, offering to help out how they could and giving him essentially major medical to preserve his status. Kirk and Grayson were around the same world ranking in the years before Kirk’s leave (Murray was actually higher) so it doesn’t seem like he would’ve gotten some special treatment.

 

Murray is obviously a piece of shit and a terrible person so it’s no surprise he’s blaming others for his troubles

 

The irony of him complaining about what the top 1% make and lack of healthcare is tremendous

 

I don’t have much sympathy for the rugged individualism maga guy blaming the tour that’s player run and exists solely to enrich him for his troubles.

 

I know the nlu have their death panel bit, but cam tringale is just wasting space. Hasn’t ever won anything, hasn’t finished better than t26 in a major. Get him out of there, he’s just taking up a spot. He’s had 11 years.

 

Billy Horschel that team captain

 

He's having a great year.

 

hes so interesting that someone quit filling out his wiki in 2016. it hasn’t been updated in 6 years. Boot him.

 

Man he’s annoying but at least he provides some kind of entertainment value.

 

Really bad comparison

 

Ok tron

 

Sung Kang with a 12 on the last hole. Goes from -7 to E

 

Was watching a little earlier and Rickie was cruising, in the lead and -6 on the day. Just checked scores and wow ok nice 8 to end the day.

 

And +5 over the last 6 holes.

 

Going through scores and Joel Dahmen also had an 8 on 18 today. Wild.

 

Actually gasped at the take-quake that's about to occur on golf twitter.

Also, heaven forbid they replace him with someone that people actually want to root for...

 

Ah, thx, haven't really paid much attention to the format.

 

Well it is semi amusing

 

I can get behind an Olympic Reed.

 

Bryson wasn't vaxxed?

 

Shocker!

 

I really hope he wasn't. The emergence of vaxxed folks having breakthrough infections is alarming, to say the least.

 

I mean I hate billy ho as much as the next guy, but hasn't he won a FedEx cup?

 

Almost had another hole in one yesterday. 120 uphill with a gap wedge. Landed a foot in front of the pin, hit the pin and then rolled 2 feet to the left.

 

Going to die of laughter is Bryson really isn’t a science guy

 

Not your related, but has anyone put a artificial putting/chipping green in their backyard? If chipping could you hit 40-50 yard shots onto it and not damage the surface?