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Tom Edrington

Tom Edrington spent the first 10 years of his misguided youth as a sports writer for the Tampa Tribune. His career brought him face to face with many of sports greatest stars -- Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Muhammad Ali, Don Shula, countless Hall of Fame NFL stars, more PGA Tour players than he can count. In 1980 he was honored by the Golf Writers Association of America for writing the best news story that year, his coverage of Jack Nicklaus' U.S. Open victory at Baltusrol. Today, 36 years later, golf is still a great part of his life, thanks to competitive playing days and the wonderful people he has met on this fabulous journey.

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    baxter cepeda

    IMO the pga tour is going too far.

    DJ has a chance to do his own Leading here. Yes the Saudis have done some things but may the first country who hasn’t done some things cast the first stone…

    If the pga tour is doing this because of the competition from a rival golf league, that is even worse.

    It would be terrible for golf leaders to ruin careers because players are doing what they have always been able to do as independent contractors. If the pga tour is going to do this they need to do a lot more for players; specifically financially.

    There’s a lot of shadiness involved in this story, a lot of bad characters, but the tour is being the worst character of all by affecting its athletes so negatively simply because they are threatened by a competitor.

    The pga tour has a lot of pull clearly, but they need to uphold some of the values they dislike about their rivals, such as freedom and autonomy.

    Unbelievable irony really.

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      Tom Edrington

      You may recall that the USFL was crushed by the NFL back in the 80s (before your time, Bax); This is about Human Rights issues and the Saudis are pretty darn bad when it comes to that, it’s a monarchy and a tough one with a very tough royal ruling class; I’m with both tours on this.

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        baxter cepeda

        I get all that but The tours are not nearly as concerned with human rights as their wallets.

        The pga tour wants to basically do what they criticize the new leagues of : controlling the players schedule… Their lives. That’s not cool IMO.

        I just don’t see the point. There are so many good players in the world and so many good tournaments. Just let it be.

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          Tom Edrington

          Talk about control, if one were to sell their soul to the Saudis, their schedule would be TOTALLY dictated to them in a Premier Golf League…..you play when and where they tell you…..

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            baxter cepeda

            But they also be rewarded in ways the traditional tours cannot come close to matching.
            It’s a tough one but the tours have enough going for them; even with smaller purses; to keep the status quo without having to threaten players so much.

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