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June 9 - July 16, 2025
Arnold Palmer arrived at the same time as color television, dazzling the folks at home with a game as vibrant as the flowers at Augusta National. He won four Masters titles from 1958 to 1964,
It has become common to call the LIV Golf era the most contentious period in professional golf history. This overlooks the fact that the PGA Tour was born of a rebellion fueled by secret player meetings, lawsuits, threats of suspension and boycotts, and very public recriminations. Ever since then, the PGA Tour has tried to sell a polished image of golfing gentlemen, but bitchiness and controversy will always be in the professional game’s DNA.
one of their most favored patrons was the construction magnate Mohammed Bin Laden, whose company, Saudi Binladin Group (SBG), built castles for the royal family and rebuilt the mosques in Medina and Mecca, among the holiest sites in the Islamic world. It is said that Mohammed
Bin Laden had fifty children by more than a dozen wives; his most pious son was Osama. SBG would become a business associate of George H. W. Bush by investing in the Carlyle Group, the monolithic private equity firm based in Washington, DC, that moves billions of dollars around the world in what the writer Michael Lewis dubbed “access capitalism.”
In a secret program overseen by Vice President Bush, the U.S. government funneled state-of-the-art weaponry to the jihadists, sending them $700 million worth of hardware in 1987 alone.
Much of it went directly to Maktab al-Khidamat, a fighting force cofounded by Osama Bin Laden. It remains mind blowing: the United States armed Bin Laden and helped him form the precursor of al-Qaeda.
“Cancel culture” has become an overly broad term employed in many ways, but a useful
definition is “the consequences of one’s actions.”
D. J. Piehowski of No Laying Up tweeted, “I know the numbers weren’t great when it was publicly available to anyone on earth for free on the most popular app in the world, but this could change everything.”
“Yeah, we’ve been telling him to stop trying to find a girlfriend on Instagram,” says one of DeChambeau’s teammates.
Brooks Koepka, who arrived at Oak Hill still smarting from his shaky Sunday at Augusta National, was straining for his own return to form, back to when he was golf’s most ruthless big-game hunter.
