Wayne Brown ends the PGA Tour / LIV Golf standoff

Sport Review #238

Gday. Thanks for being here.

Golf? Don’t have a clue. In Auckland, we’ve got roughly three golf courses per person. Brilliant. Some of the boys in the Whats App reckon it should be more but that doesn’t say ‘second term’ to me. Hah! Hah.

I’m an engineer. I keep things pretty simple.

These LIV guys - they’ve got shitloads of money. Saudis. Greg Norman. Oil. Brilliant.

These other guys. PGA. Good old boys, corporate bankers, clubhouses with lots of rules. Well, it’s still shitloads and they’re not dipshits, but it’s less loads of shit. You with me?

When two sides don’t get along, start where you can agree. And the common factor seems to be cash. Some good cash, some bad. But guys. Read the balance sheet. Forget the other shit. Tell my council colleagues how to do it while you’re at it! Yeah cheers.

At the end of the day, if you want things you have to pay for them. Bring asset rich doesn’t put fuel in the private jet.

If I was you guys I’d just get all those morals and values and that funny kind of bile taste, and just push it way, way down inside. It won’t come back up for years. Years.

I’m just an engineer, and don’t have a horse in this race. The Tāmaki Makaurau / Jeddah sister city link up is co-incidental.

Get around the table. Get on the putting green. Get in the locker room. You guys aren’t drongos. You’ll work it out. I can send Desley.

Thanks for reading - Richard

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