Tour has banned 17 players, including San Diego's Phil Mickelson, for renouncing its golfing citizenship
On any course. In any country with a water supply — except Russia. In a plane. In a train. In a car. In pasturelands . On mountaintops. In rainforests. On bike lanes. In heaven. In hell.There wasn’t a single professional golfer attacking the Capitol with a 2-iron on Jan. 6.Reports are sketchy, but many Biblical scholars believe Judas hanged himself from a tree — and not because he couldn’t get out of an impossible lie behind it.
A few players are being besieged by the misguided hypocrites, the overly jingoistic, who used to be truffles, hard to find, but now grow like bamboo. Mickelson reportedly is getting $200 million, Johnson $125 million, basically just for appearing. Tiger Woods, apparently offered a sheik’s ransom, gave LIV the Heisman, as did Jack Nicklaus.
The nation’s human rights history is awful, but China’s is worse, and it’s hard to purchase anything here not made there. Do we not have athletes making money in China — or in Russia before the war?
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