"Lucy Li, Tony Romo Situations Are Another Blow To Amateur Golf"

The USGA letting off Lucy Li for a blatant amateur status violation was not a huge surprise, but juxtaposed with Tony Romo’s Skechers golf shoe ad campaign running during golf telecasts, and the overall commercialization is expediting the de-legitimization of amateur golf and the organizations charged with enforcing the rules.

Even worse, there is a growing sense of the rulemakers playing favorites. My Golfweek column.