Opinion: Is Greg Norman’s Saudi-backed rebel league the fast food golf needs? | Andrew Webster
Forget, for a moment, about the grotesque amount of money and the murderous, wicked regime from which it comes because, if we’re being honest, you would be hard-pressed to find many major sports that don’t dance with the devil so it can line its pockets.
Verdict: it was underwhelming at best. I’ve seen more exciting four-ball, best-ball competitions at Urunga Golf Club. Being nailed to the lounge for four days is palatable, though, when the golf is actually quite good, or it has some sense of history attached to it instead of its participants just making loads of filthy cash.On that score, Sharkie’s rebel league has a long way to go.
I know: exciting. Presumably, in time, these teams will become golf’s version of Barcelona FC or the New York Yankees. Or, most likely, they will not. Golf’s ugly civil war isn’t just about players, past and present, lining their pockets with millions of petrodollars from the Saudis, who are using sport to obscure their deplorable crimes against humanity otherwise known, according to Norman, as “mistakes”.
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