Maggiore: I’m all in on the Fenway Sports Group helping the game of golf
I’ve been a Boston Red Sox my entire life. I’ve lived the high of celebrating a World Series victory (4 times) and I’ve endured the heartbreak of the things like the 2003 ALCS. To see the team go from spending like a big market team to acting like a small market team has been entirely frustrating as a lifelong fan. However, something that could be leading to the Red Sox not spending money is the reports that the Fenway Sports Group is potentially investing in the PGA Tour as they look for a resolution to all the drama surrounding golf. As a fan of the game of golf, the PGA Tour especially, I have to say this….I’m all in on John Henry and the Fenway Sports Group trying to save the game I love.
Over recent years my love for baseball has shrunk and my love for golf has grown. On a typical Sunday during the spring and summer months you will find me watching the golf over baseball. Baseball has taken such a backseat to me that if the golf is in a weather delay or if the tournament is in Europe and ends early in the day I don’t even consider putting the Red Sox on, I just go on with my day (and am most likely hitting chip shots in my front yard).
The sad reality of golf right now is that the LIV Tour and PGA Tour commissioner, Jay Monahan, have broken the game of golf. The LIV Tour has poached a handful of the game’s best players and has taken all of the biggest characters, which has left the PGA Tour, on occasion, a very tough and boring watch. And the LIV Tour, as it has been from the start, is basically an unwatchable product. Both sides in that drama are at fault for the game of golf being the way it is today.
Hearing that the Strategic Sports Group, which is led by the Fenway Sports Group, wants to invest in golf and try to save the game makes my day. And to be honest, I have NO IDEA what any of it means, who’ll be playing on what Tour, and whatever. I don’t know how the deal will work and I get more and more confused the more I read about it. However, if this is a start to saving the game of golf so that my Sunday’s can be enjoyable again then I’m all in. Save the game, John!
If John Henry and the Fenway Sports Group can bring golf together again and it comes at the expense of the Boston Red Sox being a team that cares about contending then see ya later Red Sox, it was nice knowing ya! Enjoy your stupid “Sweet Caroline” in the 8th inning Red Sox fans! (I’ll see you all in a few years when John Henry ultimately gets tired of the PGA Tour and looks for the next thing in his portfolio!)