Golf is a simple sport to understand, because the winner is never determined by judges sitting on the sidelines or the technical merits of a swing. The player who uses the fewest strokes is the winner, and that can’t be argued.
But when it comes to the new structure of the game with the partnership between the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour and the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, there are definitely winners and losers in degrees. The swift and sudden announcement last week of the new structure of men’s professional golf left people reeling. And some people and issues from the corporate changes came out of the first week looking better than others.
Here’s a list of the winners and the losers from the corporate change and week of analysis: