Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for May 21, 2024

No soup for you!

It just doesn’t matter, there’s enough golf and money to go around. Each side wants it all. To us mortals nothing’s changed.

You have to admit that the Vahalla PGA championship was a very entertaining tournament.

That’s not how the LIV golf people would use a carving knife.

It’s time for Cooking with Pro Golfers.

Four day stroke play tournaments with large cash prizes?

Good thing I don’t care much for golf…

Proof once again: nothing destroys so absolutely as money. Next up to be destroyed? Division I college sports.

I hope that sports washing proves to be a spectacularly disastrous and expensive failure for all parties concerned. Paying attention Manfred, Goodell and Silver?

Making a Khashoggi (cash hoagie).

The PGA is in charge of holes 1-8 and 12-18.

The Saudis are responsible for 9-11.

54?

I’ll confess I know nothing about golf. From what I’ve read, the broadcast audience value is not the bulk numbers of viewers, but the specific viewers… people who have money to spend on golf. I only know there’s a tournament going on when I tune in to see 60 Minutes and a Golf show is going over into its time slot. It’s OK. I don’t know anything about Curling, but there’s a fanbase for Curling… and Soccer — apparently.

Golf: more boring than baseball. More boring than cricket. (Cricket is boring beyond belief except for international matches involving England and any match involving both India and Pakistan. Everyone loves beating England, and India and Pakistan hate each other with the fury of 10,000 suns, so those matches are always lively.) More boring than a footy match between the bottom two English Div 6 teams. If golf were banned, there would be much rejoicing internationally.

I fail to see the huumus in this.