Perspective: When the golf world wakes up Monday morning, the champion will have his claret jug, but the rest of the sport will still have looming problems to deal with.
Here is a realistic notion from Martin Slumbers, chairman of the R&A, which stages this century-and-a-half-old tournament and considers itself a steward of the sport and its values.
There you have the forces at work when the 151st British Open tees off Thursday morning: the purity of the competition among a talented field of 156 on a classic layout — and what to do about the river of filthy money that will be used to present that purity to the public for decades to come. The two don’t go together at all, yet they’re partners in the sport for the foreseeable future.
Translation: If Saudi Arabia comes to us with some lightly laundered money through its Public Investment Fund, we almost certainly would take it. The winner of the last major of the season will earn $3 million from a record $16.5 million purse for beating 155 of the best in the world. The winner ofon the Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit: $4 million for beating 47 dudes, some of whom are still among the best in the world.
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