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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Rick Morrissey

LIV Golf is letting us know what the stars are really like, and it’s not pretty

Bryson DeChambeau prepares to tee off during a practice round last month before the PGA Championship in Tulsa. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

With so many big-name professional golfers revealing themselves as having the morals of a contract killer, this seems like a good time to explore the massive gap between the type of people we were told they were and the type of people they actually are.

No other sport has TV announcers who paint a picture of its athletes as saints the way golf does. It’s not even close. And it’s nonsense, as shown by the number of men willing to take money from the Saudis, who are funding the new LIV Golf Invitational Series when they’re not murdering their own countrymen. Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed and Sergio Garcia, among others, have decided that making an ocean of cash will wash away any blood that threatens to lap up against their consciences.

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