Jordan Spieth the USA on duty at the the 2023 Ryder Cup at Marco Simone Golf Club in Rome. It remains a cash cow for the PGA of America and the European Tour. Photograph: Tom Dulat/Getty Imagess was asked if he would prefer to win this tournament or be part of a winning team at the
Woods’s comments in Mount Juliet came three years after the fractious Ryder Cup in Brookline, when players on both sides forgot their manners. Around that time David Duval and Mark O’Meara had raised complaints about the players not being paid. Duval even suggested that a player “boycott” was “imminent”.
Here’s the thing: nobody cares if 24 of the best golfers in the world feel like they’re being fleeced for playing in the Ryder Cup, pro bono. Nobody cares what corporate entities are prepared to pay to entertain their clients at the event. Nobody really cares how much the blue-chip golf resorts are prepared to pay – through the nose – to host the event. But when punters are being fleeced, there is a different noise.
He didn’t mention the Super Bowl in the same breath because, for ticket prices, that exists in a different realm. The cheapest, face-value tickets for this year’s Super Bowl, sold directly by the NFL, cost $2,000. In the week of the game the re-sale platform, StubHub, told CBS that the average ticket price was $8,600. Last-minute tickets were selling for more than $30,000.Karns also described the Ryder Cup as a “bucket list” event for golf fanatics, and that is true.