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@MyGolfSpy Ballesteros

Age yourself by naming a golfer you grew up watching at the Masters….. I’ll start: Davis Love III

@BredsguardDalen Stupid take, so the world buys American oil. And once the Strait opens again, then what? Iran controls it.

Have you seen this Iran theory? What's your thought on it?

@CreasonJana Blah blah blah, we’ve heard this weapons of mass destruction story before. There’s no proof, just like there was no concrete proof with Iraq.

I came across this opinion piece regarding what’s going on in Iran, and it is quite informative. Let’s get something straight, because this hasn’t been talked about enough. And I’m tired of seeing people grabbing headlines and posts that agree with their narrative instead of doing their own research. What’s happening right now in Iran is not Israel’s war. It’s not a Jewish vendetta, it’s not a Middle East skirmish that has nothing to do with the rest of us, and contrary to Tucker Carlson, it has nothing to do with Chabad. You need to know what’s actually going on. Thread 🧵Continued 1 of 7

@WarClandestine Sounds great in theory but policies can change every four years in the US.

There it is again! 👀 Trump calls NATO a “paper tiger”, then criticizes South Korea, Japan, and Australia, for not helping us, despite benefiting from our protection. I’ve been suggesting that Trump is setting up a withdrawal of our military footprint abroad, and will consolidate our military presence to the Western hemisphere. Trump appears to be laying the ground work. I think the end goal is to withdraw from NATO, which will in turn end the war between Ukraine/Russia, then bring all the troops home to our region, then leave the areas of influence in the hands of the nations in each respective region. After Deep State destabilization assets, i.e. terrorists/cartels, have been neutralized, the need for our military presence around the globe, will no longer be necessary. I think Trump is leveraging the situation in Iran, to show the public why we need to withdraw from NATO and bring the troops home from Germany, South Korea, Japan, Australia, and more. I think Trump is using Iran to end the Cold War between the US and Russia/China, and prevent full-scale WW3 from ever happening in the future. Trump wants to make a deal with Russia and China, and this surely will include removing our standing armies from their doorstep. I think Trump is using Iran to reshape the global order to a “multi-polar world”, where a variety of nations hold spheres of influence, as opposed to the complete US hegemony. A world where we are allies/trade partners with Russia and China, not enemies on a collision course for world war. I think we are witnessing a historic global transformation.

@USronaldcarter Trump got the same briefing 60kg of 90% uranium with 4 weeks to breakout, but where was the breakout with Clinton and Obama? It’s been 4 weeks for the last 25 years.

I just got off the phone with someone who works in defense policy in Washington. What they told me should end every "Trump is reckless" argument permanently. "Every single president since Clinton received the same intelligence briefing on Iran's nuclear timeline. Every single one was told the window was closing. Every single one chose to kick it down the road because the political cost of acting was higher than the political cost of waiting." Trump got the same briefing. 60kg of 90% enriched uranium. 4 weeks to breakout. Material for 2 bombs. He chose to act knowing it would tank his approval to 35%. He chose to act knowing his own base would split. He chose to act knowing NATO allies would refuse to help. He chose to act knowing gas prices would spike. A senior analyst I know at a major think tank put it this way: "The difference between Trump and every president before him isn't intelligence. They all had the same data. The difference is courage." Read that again. Every president had the same file on their desk. Only one opened it and did something. I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

@hispanicnomad Been to three: Chiangmai, Alicante, and Da Nang. Alicante for me. Da Nang is ok. Chaingmai just boring AF that’s why you buy doobie to pass the time.

The best cities in the world to retire with a $2,000/month budget, according to International Living: 🇨🇴 Medellín, Colombia 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai, Thailand 🇪🇸 Alicante, Spain 🇪🇨 Cuenca, Ecuador 🇲🇾 George Town, Malaysia 🇲🇪 Kotor, Montenegro 🇲🇽 Oaxaca, Mexico 🇻🇳 Da Nang, Vietnam 🇧🇬 Plovdiv, Bulgaria I've visited most of these. The list is solid Maybe missing some more South American places, but good overall

@hispanicnomad Bangkok because if you want to light a spliff at the end of a long day, you can.

If Southeast Asian expat hubs were honest about why people move there: 🇹🇭 Bangkok: "We have everything. Malls, temples, street food, nightlife. You'll never leave and you'll stop understanding why you would" 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai: "We're Bangkok's chill cousin. $800/month, co-working cafés, and nobody judges you for leaving your laptop there all day" 🇮🇩 Bali: "Instagram found us first. The vibes are real but so is the visa queue" 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City: "We move fast, we're loud, the food is absurd, and rent is still $400. Come before that changes" 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur: "Muslim-majority, English everywhere, cheap as hell, and zero one talks about us. Our loss, your gain"

@elonmusk Why don’t we just say it, Nelson Mandela started the downfall of South Africa.

South Africa has extremely racist laws

@thwacknicklaus That would be a 4-iron loft today. But even so, that 1-iron was zero forgiveness, so sharp you could shave with it. Nicklaus was on a different planet.

Hitting a butter knife 1-iron from 220 over water and making it stop on the green is the peak of golfing skill. These scenarios should be returned to the game. ASAP. Let’s sort out the players and the imposters. Let’s return to golf as it was! thepropergolfer.com

@Milajoy No. We saw color. We could laugh at each other too and it wouldn’t bother anyone.

When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s no one saw color. We were all just Americans. Why did that change?

@SHistorians What Tiger does outside the course shouldn’t matter.

Nick Faldo’s judgement on Tiger Woods: Quotes from the Telegram article by James Corrigan. Sir Nick Faldo: “Tiger Woods should not be welcomed back with open arms.” The Englishman also believes that the 15-time major-winner should not be “welcomed back [to the sport] with open arms”. Faldo is perturbed by the manner in which golf’s authorities responded – Augusta National sent out a similarly fawning statement after revealing Woods had withdrawn from next week’s Masters. The Englishman is concerned that, as in his previous scandals, the incident will ultimately be brushed under the carpet. The Tour will look after him, as they always have done. But then you’ve got Jack [Nicklaus] saying it has tarnished the entire sport. There has to be some accountability. Forget about golf. We are not meant to be on the streets with two pills in our pocket.” Faldo believes there should also be some sort of recrimination from within the sport. “Our sport is based on discipline. You rule yourself, you police yourself. I would have thought the PGA Tour – behind closed doors – must be very disappointed that they pay Tiger tens of millions to be on the course and off the course with this business role he has got [as chairman of the player-driven Future Competitions Committee]. “He has only finished nine tournaments in the last five years, yet they feel he is the future on the golf course and the future in the decision-making and they must say… ‘oh boy, what do we get out of that?’ In the normal walk of life, there would be some accountability.”

@TourSwingsTommy I’d three or maybe even four putt it. And I consider myself a pretty good player.

A 10-handicap has to 2 putt from 10-feet to win the Masters. Nerves. Green speed. Silence. Pressure. Everything. Is he doing it?

@OfficialTourPro I’ll pay $3,000

What’s the most amount of money you would pay to play Augusta National?

@justlenasart Bali is a shithole if you really look at it.

I am in Bali now for 2 weeks …. And I’m too old for this place. The crowd is easy to spot. Yoga mats. Linen bags. Tattoos. Matcha to go. Scooters. No helmet. No shirt. It’s almost a UNIFORM/ BRAND of the consciously awakened nomad, spiritually aligned, recently escaped from the 9–5 pressure of the West. Three months in Bali. Sometimes more. Living well on prices they’d complain about back home. Sitting in cafés, MacBooks open, talking about healing, spirituality, the next cacao ceremony. And how much they LOVE this island. Sure you do. You love your photos. The aesthetic. The affordable “healthy lifestyle”…. bowls, matcha, sunlight. But DO YOU actually love Bali? Because loving a place isn’t just consuming what’s beautiful. It’s taking responsibility for what isn’t. And the other Bali exists too…. trash in the streets, sick street dogs, stray cats, the parts that don’t fit your feed. They don’t disappear just because you crop them out. So here’s a thought: Skip one smoothie. One. And donate that money to the people actually doing the work here… cleaning up what your version of Bali ignores. Or at least BE HONEST. You don’t love Bali. You love the version of it that looks good on your social media feed.

@GolfDigest Not a good fix from Blackburn because he didn’t tackle the root of the OTT. It’s basically a lesson where you place an object and say don’t hit this.

Our Number One Teacher, Mark Blackburn, shares a quick drill that can completely change your golf swing. 🙌

@mikealfred If Option B is loving wife and two good kids that’s the way to go.

Imagine you had to choose your life at age 40: Option A: Single. No kids. $50M net worth. 850 credit score. Private jet. Option B: Married. 2 kids. $3M net worth. Drive a Toyota. 10 BTC in cold storage. 500 credit score. Fly Southwest. Be honest, which life are you choosing?

@NUCLRGOLF Its probably 40-60 jail is in my cards, but I’m going for it.

🚨💰👮‍♂️ #DISCUSSION: — You have a four shot lead standing on 18 tee and need a triple bogey or better to win The Masters. Win and you get $4 Million. Fail, and you go to prison for a year. Would you do it?

@jakeshieldsajj Communism as one party system you mean. Vietnam is no longer run by a pure Communist- Ho Chi Minh, which wasn’t a very nice place to be.

I’m in Vietnam a “communist” country and they are clearly on an upward swing It’s clean safe beautiful, zero homeless, free healthcare and little crime Their GDP is growing 4 times faster than in America Now I'm not a communist but this isn’t the horror we were told

@Top100Rick Why can’t these rich sports billionaires just hire drivers full time?

Tiger Woods is 100% at fault. But this could have been avoided if the police did their job. Tiger should have gone to jail the last time. Should have had severe punishment. Instead he wasn’t even tested. Maybe real jail time would have changed him.