Pablo Torre

We are talking as he has just again hosted this tournament, a live tournament at Trump National in Washington, D.C., and the PGA was at Doral the week before yesterday.

For the 2026 Cadillac Championship, it was the first PGA Tour event to be held at one of Trump's properties since he became the president.

And so even as all of the chaos is swirling and erupting, Trump is, as always, cashing in everywhere.

But the idea that even as the PGA is capitulating to Donald Trump, that there are places in this world, there are places in the world of golf that will not abide by him because they do have some sense of a code.

That is not simply financial.

It is, in the way that you put it, the thing that I do almost perversely love about sports.

And this is the through line through this whole story, which is you could have $900 billion at your disposal.

You could have all the money in the world.

You could be the president of the United States.

But there are some things that money cannot buy you when it comes to sports.

And...

As much as I've never thought of a golf club as a place that could be a fortress against the power of money, it does remind me that some things can't be bought.

And that might be the only thing left in terms of a moral high ground or anything resembling one that professional sports can offer us at this point.

I truly believe that.

Yeah, I think much like Alan Shepnuck's neck, he has a lot of scar tissue at this point around this topic.

Oh, look at that.

It's covered up.

Almost, almost.

The flip side of this metaphor is that sometimes you can just pick at a scab and it starts bleeding all over again.

It's been an incredible ride.