One for @Polski_Filip
Volume on, this isnāt a screamer. 
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Just played 18 at the municipal off of the avenue for the first time. Got the most out of it by going round in 130! 

I should probably stick to rugby.
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Im not surprised. You musst have had trouble playing in the dark.
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Kid from Roryās home course wins a grown up DPWTC event. He was 1 shot ahead, Par 5 last 205 yards to flag blocked behind a tree, water in front of green, play it safe with your second nipper just get it doen.
Nah, Whacks it to about 7 feet to win.
Clearly a real talent
Talking of Rory. He was 2nd in The Memorial after 6 when I switched on. Heās bogeyed the next two holes.
Changing channels.
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Such a tough course set up. Literally miss a landing atea by 6 inches and everything changes.
Bed time tbh
Not happy. But the US PGA are merging with the evil LIV.
Someone on the Saudi side had an Aha moment
Instead of spunking gazillions on the players, they realised its cheaper to buy the executives
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Interesting how that is going to work??

Well thats amazing.
They finally put their dicks away
Nope, greed and all that is wrong with sport won out⦠PGA was fucked financially so let itself be bought by the sportswashing princes and the Europeans had to follow suit or be left fighting over scraps⦠as with Newcastle though, most folks wont give a shit and simply ignore all these āwokeā twats wittering on about human rights⦠blah blah blah⦠shameful day for golf tours
The difference is that Arab money & Golf have been in a mutually beneficial marketing arrangement since long before anyone heard the word sportswash. and Iām never going off into any political debate about the Middle East
The very 1st Desert Classic was in 1989. Golf has been good to Dubai and Dubai has been good to Golf. Abu Dhabi came next, big marketing and big budgets, followed by Bahrain, Qatar Oman and then before LIV, the Saudi Invitational.
Saudi worked to get the European Tour to co-sanction their event (with the Asian Tour) and the Saudiās used big bucks to bring in Americans with appearance money garantees that made what Dubai paid Tiger all those years ago seem like small change for the bus fare.
The issue from day one has been Greg Norman he is old old skool antagonistic git. He really is the epitome of a Polish Businessman.
It is easy to sit in the Ivory tower and say Saudi is bad It is easy it is an open goal. Non negotiable.
It is also lazy. Because it fails to understand that Saudi is on a journey and it is changing and it will take time and the bad guy is not going to jail any time soon. (But then who desnāt have a range of people who should be going to jail)
Anyway. at some point in the next 20/30 years, Saudi will be unrecognisable, unfornuately it is so very easy to wave the sportswash card and feel good about the moral high ground.
The fact is LIV & the Tours were starting from the same place. An ego (Greg) pissed off a bigger ego (Jay). A lot of people made a lot of money.
Now the future of Golf can be worked out by grown ups.
And if you donāt like Saudi spending money then join Just Stop Oil and stop giving them more money.
I appreciate your defence, which given your time spent in those countries and love of golf is not unexpected, and I appreciate its heartfelt⦠but I cant agree. These things the always been about the $$$ for the tours and to support the commercial interests abroad of nations that have dubious and downright appalling human rights records records.
Itās lazy to say they are on some journey to enlightened attitudes (that has been the excuse for over 40 years) and that more interaction with western culture and human rights ideals would soften the hard line. (as with bible belt America, the hardliners are very liberal with their interpretation of the Koran⦠) The reality is it has not moved - it could also be argued that the increased exposure to western ideals has caused regression as the more orthodox religious doctrine has attempted to reassert itself.
You may wish for 20-30 years of change leading to an unrecognisable Saudi, but I suggest it wont be. All they may have managed to do is control more of our sport and clubs in an attempt to get average joe to defend them like a python sketch āwhat have the Saudiās ever done for usā - already the case with Newcastle fans, the majority of which seem happy with success on the European stage at any price.
All that will change is less people will give a shit about gay folk being incarcerated or whipped in public in those countries as there is more focus on the 'benefits of their investments in our clubs, sports or infrastructureā¦
PS. I do understand what you are hoping for and its certainly not a bad ideal to hope these nations evolve in their tolerance, perhaps through our influence, but there have been too many reversals⦠anyone remember the āArab springā? As I see it when its a religious doctrine as opposed to political, the more its challenged, the deeper it becomes entrenched or when there is huge $$$ involved the more willing folks are to overlook those thingsā¦
Already drive fully electric 
Fueled by oil and gas powered power stations
Well I live in Scotland where we have around 80% renewables⦠OK so the grid also takes power from other sources but its heading in right directionā¦