I disagree with Jimmy Dunne’s assessment that unification of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf is a necessity (“Left un-Dunne: PGA Tour’s hopes for a deal,” May 20 GGP).
The entities are playing two different games. It’s like asking the PGA to unify with the NBA. It can’t be done.
Team exhibition golf cannot be reconciled with the individual sporting competition on the PGA Tour.
The public is free to watch whatever it wants and let the business “metrics” be what they will be. If sponsors want to believe there is some systemic issue with the game, they will be proved wrong.
Stay the course, and the PGA Tour will be just fine.
Keith McIntyre
Statesboro, Georgia
Great piece by Jim Nugent (“Left un-Dunne: PGA Tour’s hopes for a deal,” May 20 GGP). His take on the “merger” – or in this case, non-merger – is insightful and says what many of us are thinking.
Most would agree that a cardiologist is required in a heart transplant, not a chiropractor. An experienced businessman should be spearheading a merger instead of the ego-driven, not-necessarily-smartest men in the room, professional golfers.
Dave Richner
Kingwood, Texas
Isn’t this publication “Global Golf Post?” Because the way it is formatted, you’d might as well retitle it, “Men’s Global Golf Post with the Women as an Afterthought.”
I am a big Xander Schauffele fan, and the 2024 PGA Championship was awesome (“X-ceptional,” May 20 GGP). It deserves the cover story. But Nelly Korda won her sixth tournament in seven starts, an amazing feat. Yet in this edition of GGP – as in most – you must scroll through many, many pages of nearly everything else before you see anything about the women (“Korda bounces back in New Jersey,” May 20 GGP).
I’m aware this discrepancy is not only in GGP. Another regular “women’s golf” email focuses mostly on golf apparel and accessories, rather than the players, tournaments and lessons.
Why not list all tournament results up front, in the first few pages? I have absolutely no doubt some will grouse. But to me – a short, older woman with a mobility disability – golf is for everyone. But unless you are a man without a visible disability, this diversity of players is not reflected in golf publications.
It's difficult to attract people to a game that needs more players when they don’t see themselves reflected.
Violet E. Horvath
Honolulu, Hawaii
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