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Bob Harig

Ryder Cup Legend Ben Crenshaw Has a Bold Opinion on Whether U.S. Players Should Be Paid

Ben Crenshaw, pictured after the U.S. Ryder Cup victory in 1999, believes players should not be paid in the biennial matches. | Bob Breidenbach/Providence Journal-USA TODAY NETWORK

If Scottie Scheffler appears inevitable in 2025 following a strong showing in the Bahamas, so, too, does the issue of pay-for-play among U.S. Ryder Cup team players.

With a chance to squelch such talk and perhaps return the narrative to some other money-related issue, those queried at the Hero World Challenge—including PGA Tour Policy Board member Tiger Woods—instead played a semantics game that is bound to keep the issue at the forefront, with an unsatisfactory ending for all but those who get enriched further.

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