Too many players are willing too look the other way and take (greedy) appearance money from a country looking to ‘sports wash’ away is reputation as a human rights violator. Pure and simple.

As far as the celebrity aspect. If we remember right a few years ago comedian George Lopez was the host of the old ‘Bob Hope’ tournament. His antics upset the old guard and he was fired from that duty. After that many celebs boycotted the tournament.

And it spilled over to the Pebble Beach Tournament. Ironically when George Lopez interviewed Lee Trevino on the Golf Channel when he was the host, Lee said he thought that he (George) saved the tournament.

Too many of the younger players in ALL sports don’t bother to learn the history of ‘their’ sport. It’s a shame really. Golf like baseball is reliant on tradition and historical perspective more than other sports.

Too many of the younger generation are ignorant of their own sports history. To their own detriment imo.

Rickochet I always preferred watching the celebrities. I can watch the pros anytime. It's just that the "celebrities" went from being Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin to guys I never even heard of.

    I know they're not Frank Sinatra but you've never heard of Josh Allen, Mookie Betts, Don Cheadle, Josh Duhamel, Larry Fitzgerald, Macklemore, Huey Lewis, Bill Murray, Chris O’Donnell, ScHoolboy Q , Alfonso Ribeiro, Ray Romano, Darius Rucker. or Steve Young?

      Yeah, I think part of the problem is we've aged and the old celebrities are all dead. And there were always plenty of B and C level celebs, but we've forgotten about those guys and remember Crosby, Hope, Glen Campbell, the big names of celeb golf of the 1970s. Ray Romano was an A-list guy for a while, Huey Lewis and Darius Rucker were big for a few years, too. Steve Young is a Hall of Famer and Larry Fitzgerald will be. When you watch reruns of Hogan's Heroes, Murder She Wrote, and Matlock instead of any new shows, you don't get to know any younger stars.

        azgreg
        Yes I have all ...it's called the same as it always has been called,
        Attuned ....keep current by reading and accepting current events and times.
        It's not difficult ... you just have to open your eyes ... ears ... and especially the biggest part of you, Your brain ...
        Obviously some can not or won't.

          ptjn1201 This.
          I subscribed to Rolling Stone and to Entertainment Weekly well into my 50s, but after I stopped reading those magazines, I started to lose touch of the current celebrities.
          They always had a mixed bag of big names and more minor people, but if you were keeping up with the world you knew who most of them were.

            azgreg mookie Betts?? Schoolboy q???
            Who the eff named these people??
            The rest I have heard of in some form. Probably couldn't tell you what some of them are famous for, then others I could...

              Walterjn
              The most strategic team sport exemplified by the best team that you mentioned (born into a yankee household) ... yes.

                  You mean the Dallas Cowboys of baseball? Overhyped but under performing for recent history, living in the past?

                  Red Sox fan here... Lol.

                    Walterjn
                    You didn't play it enough. Us neighborhood kids played every day in the alley. We used a plastic golf ball and a sawed-off broom handle as our bat. If you could hit that you could hit a regular baseball easily. Also no mitts needed. 😁

                      Tinker All the big names were at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey last week.





                        Culturally it’s different in many ways today entertainment wise, for me anyway. For one I couldn’t name one song from any of todays top artists. Maybe because there’s no more top 40 on the radio.🙄

                        We used to go to the old Outback Pro Am on the Champions Tour in Tampa. It was fun seeing some of the celebrities play golf like Keven Kostner, Mark Wahlberg, George Lopez and Bill Murray. A few are very good golfers like Vince Gill and Huey Lewis.

                        Several sports stars played as well like Jerry Rice, Boomer Esiason , Joe Theismann, Lou Pinella and some Buccaneer players. Plus most of the top Champion Tour players and former greats played in it. A guy I played golf with at the time caddied for the head of NBC Sports (nice guy). So we got to walk with them for a few holes. Always a great tournament. Sorry to see it go.

                        Went to a celebrity Pro Am on Cape Cod back about 20 years ago. My nephew was supposed to be the walking scorer for Annika. We got there late and his choice from what was left was Skip Kendall, Glen Day and Bill Glasson. He chose Glasson. Glasson's celebrity partner was Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield. Wakefield could smoke the ball.

                        Got to walk inside the ropes which was fun. Funny story. The caddie for Glasson once his score got to be 4 over said to my nephew, 'don't go past 4 over, we're not here to embarrass anyone.' lol