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    From Eric Ramon@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 30 14:40:42 2022
    Watched for a few minutes. It's interesting to see them play where I've played. Other than that, who cares? The crowd is pretty small. I wonder if these golfers will flip out because they crave attention.

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  • From Michael Falkner@21:1/5 to Eric Ramon on Thu Jun 30 17:28:36 2022
    On Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 2:40:46 PM UTC-7, Eric Ramon wrote:
    Watched for a few minutes. It's interesting to see them play where I've played. Other than that, who cares? The crowd is pretty small. I wonder if these golfers will flip out because they crave attention.

    No. Consider these men are making more blood-money as Saudi whores than their entire long careers (Mickelson, etc. are making more in appearance money than they ever got on the PGA Tour).

    Mike

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  • From Eric Ramon@21:1/5 to Michael Falkner on Sun Jul 3 20:19:09 2022
    On Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 5:28:39 PM UTC-7, Michael Falkner wrote:
    On Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 2:40:46 PM UTC-7, Eric Ramon wrote:
    Watched for a few minutes. It's interesting to see them play where I've played. Other than that, who cares? The crowd is pretty small. I wonder if these golfers will flip out because they crave attention.
    No. Consider these men are making more blood-money as Saudi whores than their entire long careers (Mickelson, etc. are making more in appearance money than they ever got on the PGA Tour).

    Mike

    the Saudis do have a lot of money to throw around. Branden Grace "won" the event and takes home $4.35 mil for an exhibition contest that nobody cares about. Compare that to the winning share of the British Open which will be $2.5mil in 2022.

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  • From Michael Falkner@21:1/5 to Eric Ramon on Mon Jul 4 09:55:24 2022
    On Sunday, July 3, 2022 at 8:19:12 PM UTC-7, Eric Ramon wrote:

    the Saudis do have a lot of money to throw around. Branden Grace "won" the event and takes home $4.35 mil for an exhibition contest that nobody cares about. Compare that to the winning share of the British Open which will be $2.5mil in 2022.

    And the real absurd part is the appearance fees (which, for most of these golfers, is more than they ever made in professional golf!).

    Mike

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