Whether it was staging tournaments at places that practiced racial discrimination, or playing the Masters at a world-famous club that didn’t allow female members, golf only surrendered in the way former Augusta National chairman Hootie Johnson once swore his men’s-only retreat never would — at the point of a bayonet.
So the PGA Tour capitulated Tuesday because it felt it had no choice, at least as it relates to the bottom line. Never mind that the LIV Golf tour funded by the Saudis was something of a ratings disaster on the CW Network, or that its events were beyond meaningless, or that its team competition was nearly impossible to follow or care about.
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