Nate.

Hope the players on the policy board have good Directors and Officers insurance (with massive limits) because antitrust legal heavyweights Susman Godfrey have delivered their own version of holiday cheer to Tiger, Jordan Spieth, and Patrick Cantlay et al.   The policy board received a letter from Susman on behalf of the hard-working Tour professionals that have been treated like dirt for years (under meritocracy banner) otherwise known as “the Mules”.    The PGA Tour is supposed to be a trade organization that acts on the behalf of its’ members and the Mules are finally pissed off enough to demand to know what’s happening in the negotiating process and how they are going to be compensated fairly.  After the ridiculous PIP payments being dished out like a high school popularity contest, it looks like they’ve had enough of King Monahan flying around in a Tour jet and fancy headquarters buildings while they labor in the mud.   Look for any decision that gets made to end up in court unless they get higher minimum pay for making the Tour, travel & caddies paid for, physical therapy help, and other things athletes generally get when they sign with a team (like basketball, football, baseball, etc..)   Mules work hard for nothing but scratch.  But if you really piss them off, they have a ferocious kick.