Colin Cowherd says the PGA Tour’s decision is pretty simple. It needed the biggest stars back. It needed the top draws on the top tour. So, when the opportunity to merge with LIV Golf was presented, all of the moral aggrandizing its golfers and leaders were doing last year went right out the window.
He couldn’t help but think about the crow those people and their supporters are having to eat now that they are willing to take money from the Saudi Arabian government, something they said was morally objectionable.
“The only people that are only right on the Internet are anonymous. Isn’t that a coincidence? They’re always right,” he said Tuesday on FOX Sports Radio. “And the only people with morals and values in the world are never offered big money or enormous opportunities. I don’t have to love the LIV Golf tour and everything it stands for.”
Cowherd added that he was offered money from LIV Golf. He didn’t accept it, but understood that others might.
“I was offered six figures to do some reads for the LIV Golf tour. I didn’t accept it, but. BUT! I didn’t bad-mouth other hosts that did. That’s the difference. I was offered six figures to do stuff with LIV Golf. I was invited to tournaments. I said, ‘No, thank you,’ but I didn’t lecture sportscasters that did. I didn’t lecture anybody that did. I’m not in their shoes. I don’t pay their taxes. I don’t have their life. I don’t know what’s going on.”
Some of golf’s biggest names defected from the PGA Tour last year to join LIV Golf. All of them were offered huge paydays to make the move. Cowherd said that sometimes the people that are lecturing others have to stop and think about how hard it would be to turn down that kind of windfall.
He added that there is a lesson in that that can be extended to everyday life as well. Money it is easy for him to turn down may mean something completely different to the members of the sports media that chose to do business with LIV Golf.
“I’m not in your shoes,” Cowherd said. “I don’t know what it means to your family. Maybe get your kids to college. I don’t know. You don’t know.”
