What has professional golf become?

[Its On A Slab]

I'm not sure, but Judas paid the country club dues with the money he stole out of the kitty.

He was good at sandbaggin'. So a friend of a friend told me.

 

[Go Bama]

*I wish that was all "wrong" with the human condition, but yes, the desire/lust/craving for power, prestige, and wealth is a part of the human condition. A better description would be the desire for "more". Human beings aren't content with much of anything, we always want "more", then when we get "more", it isn't long before that "more" isn't enough. It is a part of our fallen nature

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My previous attorney, now deceased (93), used to say most people are not satisfied with “enough” and they make themselves and those around them miserable thinking more money will make them happier.

My new attorney is pushing 80. I like for my attorneys to have plenty of experience.

He’s a super nice guy with pictures of Yellowstone National Park hanging in his office. The first time I met with him, my wife went with me. She was wearing a Yellowstone T-shirt. After about 30 minutes of talking about Yellowstone I had to tell the two of them that was enough about Yellowstone for fear of what the conversation was costing me.

I read an article a few years back which said once a couple earn $75,000/year their happiness doesn’t increase with more income. Of course, you have to adjust for inflation and the size of the family. IOW, once you have enough income for basic necessities and are able to start saving, more money doesn’t necessarily make one’s life better

 

[Bamabuzzard]

He was good at sandbaggin'. So a friend of a friend told me.

But he was bad at golf though, getting hung under trees killed him.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

My previous attorney, now deceased (93), used to say most people are not satisfied with “enough” and they make themselves and those around them miserable thinking more money will make them happier.

My new attorney is pushing 80. I like for my attorneys to have plenty of experience.

He’s a super nice guy with pictures of Yellowstone National Park hanging in his office. The first time I met with him, my wife went with me. She was wearing a Yellowstone T-shirt. After about 30 minutes of talking about Yellowstone I had to tell the two of them that was enough about Yellowstone for fear of what the conversation was costing me.

I read an article a few years back which said once a couple earn $75,000/year their happiness doesn’t increase with more income. Of course, you have to adjust for inflation and the size of the family. IOW, once you have enough income for basic necessities and are able to start saving, more money doesn’t necessarily make one’s life better

If I recall, in an interview he expounds on this quote by basically saying that people who have never been rich cannot speak from a perspective of someone who has been both poor and rich (like he has).

 

[mrusso]

Dana White has his eyes on full-contact golf.

"All eyes on Tiger Woods in the octagon!!!'

This I would watch!

 

[crimsonaudio]

My previous attorney, now deceased (93), used to say most people are not satisfied with “enough” and they make themselves and those around them miserable thinking more money will make them happier.

My new attorney is pushing 80. I like for my attorneys to have plenty of experience.

He’s a super nice guy with pictures of Yellowstone National Park hanging in his office. The first time I met with him, my wife went with me. She was wearing a Yellowstone T-shirt. After about 30 minutes of talking about Yellowstone I had to tell the two of them that was enough about Yellowstone for fear of what the conversation was costing me.

I read an article a few years back which said once a couple earn $75,000/year their happiness doesn’t increase with more income. Of course, you have to adjust for inflation and the size of the family. IOW, once you have enough income for basic necessities and are able to start saving, more money doesn’t necessarily make one’s life better

Despite our immense wealth, contentment truly is rare. It's sad, really.

 

[TexasBama]

Not golf, but in the context of absurd money, the contract Ohtani got from the Dodgers was insane - 10 years, 700 million. Granted 90* percent of it is deferred, but the math works out to about three bucks for every second he’s awake over the next ten years.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Not golf, but in the context of absurd money, the contract Ohtani got from the Dodgers was insane - 10 years, 700 million. Granted 90* percent of it is deferred, but the math works out to about three bucks for every second he’s awake over the next ten years.

They probably think they got a bargain. He's a freak, what Babe Ruth probably could have been. They even modified a rule for him, allowing him to stay in the lineup as a DH, when he's pulled for a reliever. He hits when he's resting as a pitcher and has hit two HRs while pitching! Add to that the star power and they only pay him two million annually until the end and I'm sure they're satisfied. He's a freak...

 

[TexasBama]

They probably think they got a bargain. He's a freak, what Babe Ruth probably could have been. They even modified a rule for him, allowing him to stay in the lineup as a DH, when he's pulled for a reliever. He hits when he's resting as a pitcher and has hit two HRs while pitching! Add to that the star power and they only pay him two million annually until the end and I'm sure they're satisfied. He's a freak...

I'm guessing they'll give him a percentage of the club at the tail end. I don't see them coughing up 680 million.

 

[twofbyc]

I strongly disagree. That's one of the most pessimistic views of humanity I've ever seen. No, I don't think that possessing wealth and the love of wealth equate. The scripture writer knew exactly what he was saying. The problem is greed...

We have always lived in different worlds - but looking around socially, politically, and economically, I can’t be “optimistic”. Doesn’t mean I’ve quit, just that I see what’s happened, what is happening and it’s not unrealistic to draw the conclusions I have about what will happen.
A “kid” can inherit great wealth without ever having much, a person can work hard and be successful maybe beyond their own expectations and be rewarded with great wealth, when the work was their main focus all along. So just having it doesn’t necessarily create an untamable desire to accumulate as much as possible.
Yeah, JC knew what he was saying with his “eye of the needle” comment, too. He never said it was impossible.

 

[JDCrimson]

This is interesting conversation in that I have a list of people I have kept up to date who I have directly advised, introduced, or profited off an idea I gave them, person I introduced them to, or work I have produced for my employer or client. I'm up to 11 millionaires and approaching $500 million in wealth created. I'm not bragging and I'm not jaded in the least, but I'm not a millionaire myself. My wife jokes and says when you gonna make us rich instead everybody else... But I can say firsthand there is a lot circumstances outside one's own control and devine intervention that contribute to wealth creation.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

We have always lived in different worlds - but looking around socially, politically, and economically, I can’t be “optimistic”. Doesn’t mean I’ve quit, just that I see what’s happened, what is happening and it’s not unrealistic to draw the conclusions I have about what will happen.
A “kid” can inherit great wealth without ever having much, a person can work hard and be successful maybe beyond their own expectations and be rewarded with great wealth, when the work was their main focus all along. So just having it doesn’t necessarily create an untamable desire to accumulate as much as possible.
Yeah, JC knew what he was saying with his “eye of the needle” comment, too. He never said it was impossible.

I don't even know what you mean by this. My father was a millworker. I never had any head start in life. I'm well-off, but not rich. Never aspired to become rich, just to do my job and help people. I think that, if you polled my church and the charities I donate to, I think you'd find them very pleased with me. From your remarks, I hope the same is true for you. When I look around, surely I see greedy people, and not just the rich. I just don't see the universal greed which seems to bother you so much. If I had that worldview, I would be miserable indeed...

 

[TIDE-HSV]

This is interesting conversation in that I have a list of people I have kept up to date who I have directly advised, introduced, or profited off an idea I gave them, person I introduced them to, or work I have produced for my employer or client. I'm up to 11 millionaires and approaching $500 million in wealth created. I'm not bragging and I'm not jaded in the least, but I'm not a millionaire myself. My wife jokes and says when you gonna make us rich instead everybody else... But I can say firsthand there is a lot circumstances outside one's own control and devine intervention that contribute to wealth creation.

I think I could probably just about say the same...

 

[crimsonaudio]

Not golf, but in the context of absurd money, the contract Ohtani got from the Dodgers was insane - 10 years, 700 million. Granted 90* percent of it is deferred, but the math works out to about three bucks for every second he’s awake over the next ten years.

It's yet another example as to how screwed up we are as a society.