Comments on: Peter Jacobsen sounds off on PGA Tour pros who chose Saudi International over Pebble Beach

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:49:39 +0000

In reply to Kram. actually everything is run by Greed and power and those who have it.

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:45:39 +0000

In reply to V. Amen Jack. If everybody listened to ESSM this world and the PGA tour would be going to hell .

By: Kram

Kram — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 20:55:32 +0000

There are two very viable arguments to this issue. Peter is right in that loyalty is a concept, and there is an amount of merit to it, and it does factor into this conversation, and the PGA is what has traditionally enabled these players to be multi millionaires… but business waits for nobody. The fact that there’s a new shiny object that is pulling new interest from the players is simply the way of the business world. This new wealth infusion to the game may be short lived, and it may even go down as a giant fireball, and maybe those who participated have an asterisk beside their names for rest of days, but maybe it doesn’t. It’s down to risk/reward, and how much that potential reward means to anyone at any given time and how much loyalty does or doesn’t factor into their decision process. Peter J. has Lexus and Netjets on his shirt but should he exclusively sign with companies to adorn his shirt that have been around and supporting the tour since the dawn of his career? It’s the same thing but on a smaller scale.

By: V

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 18:52:36 +0000

He’s been a real Yank. As in, he’s just protecting “American interests.” In the end, golf is NOT an American sport, even though, at least in the 20th century, due to the Northern European Caucasian world-domination rhetoric the game became American-centric with 3 “majors” being played in the US that became the norm – it’s time to dismantle that and consider the future, where the game is a truly global sport, where the players can decide where he or she wants to play and make a living, globe-trotting while doing it. Who cares about Pebble Beach. If the Yanks cared about it so much, it would have been made a national monument 70 years ago and never been allowed to be “sold” like every other piece of property in the country. But nah – they went for the money at that time as well. In the end, what is “property” in the US? Somebody OWNS the land, supposedly. It’s just a piece of paper.
Golf needs to be extricated from its own US-trappings, and the majors need to be dismantled and shifted into global ones like in tennis.

By: PGA PRO

PGA PRO — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 18:29:42 +0000

Let the best players leave and allow the golfers on the horizon to become the next ‘great players’ on the PGA Tour. Great Golf is not restricted to those handful who have already secured enough $$$$ for several generations.

By: Albert

Albert — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 17:51:18 +0000

Players are independent contractors. They should be able to decide where and when the decide to play. Also, they are obligated to play the pro-am once in the next 2 years if they decide to skip one year, so it’s not like they aren’t going to ever play the AT&T pro-am. I don’t know what the Saudi organizers paid the players, but would Jacobsenneeds to ask himself, would he have turned down $2-3 million (or whatever it is) if he had the choice when he was playing?

By: Bill Bamber

Bill Bamber — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 17:41:04 +0000

I’m with Peter Jacobson’s comments. All so know better especially Mickelson!!

By: Jack Diehl

Jack Diehl — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 17:12:36 +0000

KUDOS to you Peter Jacobsen, You understand the value of loyalty and integrity upon which the PGA TOUR grew. As well, you understand the value of “giving back”.

By: Jack Diehl

Jack Diehl — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 17:10:44 +0000

Perhaps it is time for the PGA Tour to become a FOR PROFIT entity. Let the players go where they wish. Twentyyears from now, the top 20 players will be trying to find places to play or retired and the NEW generation will not have so much money in earning and have to find places to play. BUT without having made and spent the money and time they will no have the fame. The PGA Tour can survive in similar fashion to the European Tour which offers purses as low as $2-3 million versus $8-10 million.
The Tour will be more profitable and the players less financially rewarded. Also, with less tv time, the equipment and clothing sponsors will pay less.

By: ESSM

ESSM — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 16:33:02 +0000

Its all about choice & freedom. PGA Tour is becoming suffocating, no more room for criticism. Whats the alternative to PGA Tour, it has no competition & it does whatever it wants & wants the players to do whatever it wants. People like Peter Jacobsen literally survive due to PGA Tour, so how can he say anything different? If he did, he would be fired already. And Why support these woke corporations that are banning everybody who does not live woke? Mandated vaccines & tragically forced thousands of people all over USA.