Episode 38: A few golf morsels ahead of Fat Tuesday | One Take with Alex Miceli

Alex Miceli heads to New Orleans, of all places, to ponder this question: If golf's top stars won't play a big-money WGC event in North America, why would anybody expect them to travel around the world to take a chance on an upstart pro tour?

What’s crazier than Alex Miceli at Mardi Gras in New Orleans? The recent finish at Riviera, with Adam Scott as the champion, for one. And here’s something else to ponder while sipping a frosty beverage, trolling for beads and pondering that commemorative tattoo on Bourbon Street: If the Saudis and the other backers of the proposed Premier Golf League think they’re going to get golf’s top stars to fly halfway around the world for another million bucks or so, just look at this week’s WGC Mexico Championship for some guidance. If many of the game’s top stars won’t even appear at a big-money event in North America, Miceli asks, why would anybody think that they would travel much greater distances?