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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Sport
Andy Dunn

LIV Golf rebels are pariahs and mercenaries - but they are treading a well-worn path

Pariahs, the lot of them. The only word for them. Unless you prefer mercenaries, or unless you want to stretch to more than one word.

Greedy, immoral, blood money-grabbing, shameless charlatans who are happy to sell their soul for dollars from a Saudi state that beheads people with impunity. Supporters of the bonesaw brigade…in crisply-ironed slacks and a logo-ed jersey.

When the likes of Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson and Graeme McDowell first donned a patterned golf sweater, you can be sure they never thought the above descriptions would be attached to their like. Yet here they are. The irony of a golfer being vilified for taking cash wherever he or she can get it is beyond priceless. They have always played anywhere for dough.

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