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Edition No. 82.1 | May 10, 2024
Hey,
This is Kyle Porter. I wanted to apologize for accidentally sending out our newsletter about Rory and the Board today before we fully edited it.
Hitting send too early led to us incorrectly counting how many thoughts I wrote — there were actually 15 — not just once …
But twice …
Fortunately, the actual newsletter was fully written and mostly edited. Also fortunately, when we miscount, we don’t get disqualified.
Unfortunately, we don’t get TIO relief in the newsletter game, and once we hit send, we couldn’t reel it back in or play the next one from outside all the trees and brush with a clear look at the green.
You know what, though (and this is what I told our tiny team after we realized what had happened) … who among us hasn’t hit “send” on an email too early? Who among hasn’t needed one more edit? It’s the first time we’ve made that mistake, but will almost certainly not be the last.
Below I wrote out the only thought from the original newsletter (No. 9) that had been left incomplete.
I’m sorry for the mishap because it looks goofy and unprofessional but also not dismayed about it because I think it shows what I’m always trying to show, that all of us are simply human.
Have a good weekend.
There’s a major (!) next week (!!).
9. Given Rory’s revelation that he’s actually on the negotiation committee, this entire saga says a lot about the discombobulation of the PGA Tour from a direction standpoint.
Here’s an interesting nugget from a WSJ article on the whole thing.
What [Rory] didn’t say was that a small handful of players on the board—Woods, Jordan Spieth and Patrick Cantlay—were viewed as being responsible for his failed bid. They argued that Simpson’s request skirted the proper procedures for filling a board seat. But people familiar with the matter also say that they saw McIlroy as a threat to the power they currently wield and that their views on key issues diverge with the Northern Irishman.
So Rory is important enough to be negotiating with the Saudis but we’re concerned enough about his vote for a global tour over a U.S. tour or the LIV boys returning without punishment that we’re going to keep him off the board.
That says a lot, yeah?