A putrid stench of intolerance has stung the nostrils of those who follow men’s professional golf this year – and last week, it got worse.
Responding to a social media post by Greg Norman, in which the LIV Golf CEO announced the death of his father, one keyboard warrior seized the opportunity to troll the Australian in particularly sickening fashion.
The specifics of the since-deleted post are too crude to share. Suffice to say, they fell deplorably short of basic human decency. But should we really be surprised? Social media is a septic soapbox where every voice, thought and opinion is amplified out of propotion to its worth. Men’s professional golf, meanwhile, has become a deeply divided, caustic environment, ripped asunder by an uncivil war waged by three competing tours.
Combine those two things and you get what we’ve got: a boiling hot cocktail of bile and spitting fury.
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Of course, it would have been naïve to expect LIV to emerge without some robust dissent. That, after all, is what happens when an unstoppable force, as it appears to be, meets an immovable object (in this case the PGA Tour and, to a somewhat lesser degree, the DP World Tour).
It’s a fight that will ultimately be resolved, legally at least, in the courtroom. Until such times as that, we’re left to watch the enmity manifest and multiply on an almost daily basis. Rightly or wrongly, LIV and its players feel hard done to. Rightly or wrongly, the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and their most loyal subjects think that “having your cake and eating it” is a privilege that should not be afforded to those on the Saudi-backed tour.
Both sides will tell you they are right and the other is wrong. No ifs, no buts. No shares of grey nor compromise. Their collective obstinance has created a hostile,…
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