LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Every college student, every journalist, everyone filing their taxes knows there’s a reason why deadlines exist. You put a deadline on a task, that task takes on more urgency. Major challenges get broken down into smaller challenges, and smaller challenges get resolved or ignored.
Conversely, there’s nothing quite as worthless as a “self-imposed” deadline. Without the threat of outside consequences, it’s easy to rationalize away why you missed that deadline by a few hours, a few days, or — in the case of golf’s governing bodies — a few months and counting.
Nearly a year after the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced their “framework agreement” for reworking the structure of men’s professional golf — and more than four months after they blew past their “self-imposed deadline” — there’s been no action.