Rahm’s stance is childish
Jon Rahm is like a child when he doesn’t get his way (“Conundrum colors Rahm’s Masters arrival,” April 6, GGP). He knew the rules when he jumped to LIV for a boatload of money. But now he wants his cake and to eat it too. Stop crying, you made a fortune, even after you said you wouldn’t leave the tour as you had enough money. Guess we all have our number; you took it so live with it.
Rich Maddalena
Port St. Lucie, Florida
Self-importance will cost Ryder Cup
I would bet that as a European, John Hopkins really wants Jon Rahm on the Ryder Cup team (“Conundrum colors Rahm’s Masters arrival,” April 6, GGP). Actually, as an American, I want him playing too.
I want to have the best players from both sides battling it out. The best players will make for a better match, which makes the Ryder Cup an event, not just a match.
Rahm comes across as a dilettante. It appears he thinks himself to be more important than the DP World Tour. He betrayed his fellow players on the PGA Tour and now the DPWT players.
Tell him I will play those two extra tournaments in his place and will wear a Jon Rahm mask. And tell him I, too, can act like a petulant child for a few million.
Charlie Miller
Westport, Connecticut
LIV players are ‘The Irrelevants’
It’s been awhile since I ranted about the Saudi Blood Money League, or as I nickname them, “The Irrelevants.” Every player in that ridiculous endeavour is, to me, irrelevant. I very simply don’t care or want to hear what any of them have to say about anything. I won’t watch them when they are allowed to play in majors and I won’t read anything about them. Hence I totally skipped the article in today's GGP about Jon Rahm (“Conundrum colors Rahm’s Masters arrival,” April 6, GGP).
For me they have ceased to exist and although I would prefer they still continue to operate in obscurity I realize they will gradually migrate back to the PGA Tour as Brooks Koepka has done. I won’t watch them when they are on tour or have any interest in their results or anything related to them on or off the course. As I say, they are all completely irrelevant.
Ross Couchman
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Saluting simplicity
Lovely article and I enjoyed it (“Masters magic is in the simplicity,” April 6, GGP). I never knew most of what you mentioned about the Masters – no running, no phones, etc. There is something special about the Masters, and you are correct, it’s the simplicity. I actually read it out to my wife, who was amazed but totally in agreement with all of those simplicities.
John C. Hayes
Rye, East Sussex, England
Hog heaven in Augusta
Since moving to Florida from Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 2015, I have become accustomed to having to search the internet for information about my Razorbacks. It was really wonderful having a Lady Razorback, María José Marín, win the Augusta National Women's Amateur and seeing the coverage in Global Golf Post (“Poise and good fortune spur Marín to Augusta title,” April 6, GGP), except there was only one mention in the entire article about María being an Arkansas golfer. And that was near the end of the article when it said “That’s where the 5-foot tall Arkansas junior wobbled for a moment …” Thanks for mentioning it, albeit in a somewhat negative statement. I immediately thought that the author was a Floridian.
In any case, thanks to GGP for including a nice picture with María in her Arkansas shirt with the Hog prominently displayed. Congratulations to María, and Woo Pig Sooie go Hogs!
Woody Bell
Bradenton, Florida
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