But it can be about the money without being about the money.

What I mean by that is: the players can feel like they’re being undervalued and disrespected because of how the players don’t get paid on play in tournaments. Personally I cannot ever be on board with this, if you have players playing for your league, you should pay them, period. It’s like a century outdated system that is honestly disgusting, you have the best players in the universe playing for 0 dollars at a chance to make pga money, while pga is raking in ad money non stop at the expense of the players.

So you can be against that system (which has to do with money), while not necessarily caring about a higher $$ amount. There should be guaranteed money for these players from the league, a contract like literally every other sport in existence. So when they say it’s not about the money, they can sorta be telling the truth. It’s about how PGA are greedy fucks and don’t pay them unless they play good, it’s a terrible system objectively. It can be about making the statement, not the money itself - they’re all rich anyway, but PGAs system is like an abusive girlfriend. They keep reeling you back in because you aren’t getting that steady love and appreciation