I occasionally get some interesting information, and JAB128 does not disappoint with a rather interesting take that the PGA Tour may only be held up by Mob/The Usual (American) Suspects money-laundering.
Miles Mathis, in late June, in response to the Saudi sportswashing with the LIV Tour, published a brief opinion PDF where he called "Bullshit" on the entire PGA -- wondering how the PGA Tour could, feasibly, throw the better part of $150,000,000 and finance at least the logistics of their own Tour (and perhaps the Korn Ferry, etc. as well).
He links to a Forbes article which states that most of the PGA Tour's finances are off the books, and that's the first basis of the call of "Bullshit".
In short, Mathis concludes this, like many other operations (and I'd be interested to see how many sports he adds to this number) is laundering money from basically everywhere it can get EXCEPT Saudi Arabia, it seems (though the Asian Golf Tour is also (and, in this case, openly) Saudi-financed).
He states that he would like a boycott of all professional sports (don't stop there, then, Mr. Mathis -- college can go just as quickly!), and literally stomped his television set into the ground in 1993.
Read that. Largely, it's a matter of "there's no other way the kind of money they are representing to be involved is actually involved without money laundering", but there it is for you.
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