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Bob Harig

Paying U.S. Ryder Cup Players Was Never Going to Be Popular

Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay and other U.S. Ryder Cup players could be paid for their efforts at Bethpage next year. | Adam Cairns-Imagn Images

This was never going to go well. No chance. Zero. Especially not in this climate, not with the men’s professional game caught up in an unending, exhausting dialogue that seems to be an unsustainable situation given there is more and more money offered to players with a questionable return.

The Telegraph report last week that said the PGA of America was considering payouts of $400,000 per U.S. Ryder Cup player at next year’s competition to be played at Bethpage Black has been received as expected.

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