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It is about the money

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Originally Posted by jebartle (Post 2073512)

PGA will suspend players participating. Greg Norman the organizer of SAUDI League. Saudi recently had mass execution of 81 people who participated in Anti-government protests, many reasons for players to not participate in this league but it's all about the money, $255 million to be exact for 8 events, 4 will be in US.

If you do well in a few of these tournaments you can retire with less competition than PGA tournaments. It will be an interesting couple of years. It is difficult to figure why Michelson is doing it unless his gambling debt is also huge.

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Originally Posted by Burgy (Post 2097928)

It is difficult to figure why Michelson is doing it unless his gambling debt is also huge.

He says he wants to get the PGA to make some changes, and believes the competition will encourage them to do it.

I have NO idea if that is true, I am just repeating what I heard him say in an interview.