Most people, who are golf fans, received an email notification last week that read ‘YOU’RE IN!’ regarding the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. The email outlined that you were part of a group that would get a chance for tickets for the golf tournament next Fall. When I received this notification, I immediately sent it to my friend, Murph plus my dad. I could not be more excited. I started to plan how I would use my spot to buy tickets. PGA had other ideas though. The Ryder Cup decided to run a complete sham of a process for people to get tickets. They should be embarrassed with how this worked out for people. Ryder Cup provided a terrible user experience to buy tickets and that shouldn’t happen in 2019.

Ryder Cup could have easily solved this by not inviting everyone to the lobby. In 2016, the Ryder Cup had a lottery where you found out exactly if you were able to get tickets or not. The original Ryder Cup email gave the impression that everyone had a reasonable chance at tickets. They put in big, fucking bold letters ‘YOU’RE IN!’ Except that did not happen at all. They only let a few people grab tickets then the rest were snatched up by ‘approved vendors’ who carried a bigger fee on their website. Ryder Cup made people wait almost two hours for absolutely fucking nothing. This is a joke and the PGA should be embarrassed today. Although they’ve shown zero fucking remorse. Why are we letting these guys come to the State of Wisconsin?

There is nothing worse than getting your hopes up. You feel like shit and wonder how that happened. If Ryder Cup and PGA used less direct nomenclature with their email, there is not as much outrage today. As a golf fan, it is hard for me to support the PGA moving forward when it comes to giving them actual money. I’m not going to boycott the Ryder Cup or stop watching golf, that’s silly and for Twitter users who want fucking retweets. Rather, I will not find myself at a golf event any time soon.

Charlie.