Pharmingdale, NY – even according to the standards of Long Island, the latest figures show that the cost of real estate around this Ryder cup is increasing.
List price for four square inches across Patrick Cantlay’s forehead? $ 300,000.
Of course, there is no way to know if $ 300,000 Ryder Cup Ryder’s payment from 2023 to 2025 is the reason he chose to arrive at Bethpage this week by wearing an embroidered USA hat. The man himself has denied any involvement in igniting the conversation about the player paid with him now infamous decision to go without lid In Rome two years ago, the persistence of his decision was much more about the fabric than the substance.
“For the time, the hat didn’t fit,” he said on Tuesday morning at Bethpage Black.
However, Cantlay arrived at Bethpage with a hat and with the knowledge that his performance this week’s Cup would now be worth $ 500,000, a $ 300,000 jump on his check from his performance without a lid in 2023. These things may not have links, but European fans of Ryder Cup have already captured the idea.
America’s PGA will give US players Ryder Cup more money in two ways in 2025. First, $ 300,000 will be divided by charity for each of the 12 USA players ($ 100,000 more than split in ’23). Second, each player will receive a 200,000 new “player” dollars that can be spent anywhere. The DP World Tournament, responsible for the European team of the Ryder Cup, will not change its payment practices in 2025. The tour will not give a currency to its players for their performance, and instead earns most revenues from the Cup tour in their cash registers-a generator of revenue that shows that the financial records are that the financial data is being lived.
Given these facts, it is not particularly challenging to create a story about the salary of players and Ryder Cup; Countless golf commenters and fans have already tried to do so during Bethpage. In their story, American players represent the worst instincts of the Golf greed era, and capturing their flagrant money flies in the face of long ideals of sports and good will of Ryder Cup. European players, meanwhile, represent the true golf purists and their willingness to give up a pay check indicates not only the depth of their commitment to the cup but also the depth of their commitment compared to Their American counterparts, who clearly love Golf and Ryder Cup much less to know how to seek payments.
In another accounting of the same story, one separated by Xander Schauffle Stefan’s father In the Ryder ’23 Cup, the roles are rolling. Americans are heroes of modern sports era, fighting to pay those who have rightly won against unsaturated corporations, with shades that do not want to share it. Europeans, in the same story, are not wrong to reject the salary, merely naive to the ways of the world in a way that allows them to be exploited.
The truth is that both sides are wrong. These arguments are not just lazy, they miss the point completely. Boogeyman here is not Cantlay, Americans or Europeans. Boogeyman is not money or strengthening or net capital. The solution for Ryder Cup Player Pay is staring at us on our face, and it’s not that difficult to understand: Consistency.
If we can agree with this Ryder Cup is a really special event, then we can also agree that the responsibility for achieving this goal lies equally with all parties. No one-no players, cadas, agents, sponsors, hospitality hospitality, fans, management bodies, television partners or someone else-let them down to reduce the farthest of Ryder Cup’s ideals. The social contract is binding.
In Bethpage Black, it is difficult to find the evidence of a greater good that is served beyond the limits of an excel Spreadsheet. The pricing of ticket tickets at this year’s event, held at one of the excellent Golf courses in America that has shown any commitment to affordability and accessibility, was a $ 750 astronomicalMore than ten times the cost of a time in the state. At the corporate level, $ 10,000 for ticket hospitality offers are a well -known seller.
Even those who survived the receipt price should be prepared to spend and spend some more. Food and soft drink are included with a purchase of tickets, but alcohol is not. Beer costs at least $ 15 and up to $ 19. Inside the commodity tent, a simple Ryder Cup blouse costs $ 82 -82 $ !!! – While some jackets are priced at more than $ 150. The parking, set a boat travel 20-minute away from property to Jones Beach, costs $ 55 a day. Hell, even those who look at home have justified concerns: NBC returns to broadcast the event after intense checking in Rome on an attack on trading interruptions.
Think about how wild these prices sound in the context of masters, where crazy dirt tickets, free parking and Pimento cheese sandwiches of $ 1,50 have become a special part of the tournament, and where a TV deal is signed annually in tracking limited advertising and stunning visuals. Augusta National still does and accuses a lot during the week of masters, especially in its fabricated goods center, but there are significantly fewer cases of the player’s suspected protest, and significantly less hand from the Gallery of Kikirik. Maybe Azaleas and Green jackets have a calming effect, or maybe it’s just that everyone has agreed to play with the same set of rules.
Masters is a suitable example for a supporting golf writer to pursue goodness over profit. Also a farther one – a tour -free tour from the laws of the economy and the difficult financial realities of a biennial match event. However, it is not difficult to look at the remainder of the golf world and see examples of money making enterprises with a diligent interest in doing the right thing (free children’s tickets to the open championship, for example, or trading interruptions in the US Open).
The point of all is not that one is wrong to collect a check. The pointing is not even to prerequate a check is bad. The pointing is that it seems extremely unfair that standards are so contrary to people who give money to controls so publicly.
Of course Nice nicely theorized for a world where golf stars threw their wallets and return to the Golf game. But any conversation about money and golf should start with a conversation about consistency.
In golf, as in real estate, the location is everything. And as long as Ryder Cup’s trade and competition engines and competition take place in various songs, real estate between ropes will only grow more precious.
