Those greedy American golfers. They are at it again. They are after more money, the shame of it.

These millionaires are at it – they are stealing the soul of the game… Jeez, there’s been some amount of bed wetting with this decision to pay the Yankee swingers for turning up at the Ryder Cup. It’s sacrilegious, blasphemous, a downright disgrace. They already are swimming in cash and they should be involved in the competition for their love of the game and their patriotic pride.

Give us peace. The American team is now going to get a $200,000 stipend – which sounds like a fancy word for payment – plus another 300k to give to a charity of their choice. It’s not entirely new as they’ve had 200,000 bucks handed out on their behalf to their personal good causes since a minor stink back in 1999.

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But according to plenty in the golf world, this move is the final straw. An act of sheer greed by a group of folk who have lost the plot in their pursuit of more lolly.

Hold on a wee minute here. These are the actual guys who are playing in the event – and it’s a competition that makes an absolute fortune. It’s amazing they are not demanding more dosh. Yes, it’s a pure competition with national and continental pride at stake.

But it’s also big business. And why shouldn’t the people who provide the drama after years of blood, sweat and tears to get there, not be rewarded for it?

If the cash brought in from the Ryder Cup was only going to feed the poor or whatever than fair enough, the tartan trews mob should be slaughtered.

But it’s not. On our side of the pond, the Ryder Cup plays a huge part in keeping the European Tour – now the DP World Tour – afloat. And most of the guys on that team know without that pathway they probably wouldn’t be where they are in the game.

So it’s understandable they don’t kick up a stink about getting weighed in. In the US? The PGA of America has got some brass neck. Their former CEO Seth Waugh bleated a few years ago about being sick of hearing about money in the game amid the whole Liv Tour carry on.

Fetch the blow torch for this guy. This is someone who was on $2.5m a year plus bonuses – and never travelled anything but first class. He's no Robin Hood.

In fact, the PGA of America spent $100m a year on management fees and salaries. The top 11 of their bass pocketed more than $11m every year.

Talk about a gravy train. These are the folks Patrick Cantlay wasn’t chuffed with at the Ryder Cup when he took the huff and refused to wear the team bunnet. No wonder. Swanning about, slugging champagne, while the grafters filled their pockets.

We get all this guff about growing the game and so on but how much dosh is actually reaching the grass roots? Are the PGA of America taking golf to impoverished areas and so on? Aye right.

The revenue generated from the Ryder Cup goes to the suits and the television cash – the last deal worth over $400m by the way – goes back in to the game in some form. But again, it’s not going to the actual players. The argument is they already earn enough and they get sponsors bonuses and such for making the team.

That’s fair enough. But that doesn’t get the free loaders a pass. And there are plenty of them.

Go to any golf event and there are hundreds of folk milling around, shaking hands, sipping champers and scoffing buffets while the players are out on the course.

The same goes for other sports as well. Rory McIlroy pointed to the Olympics as an example of athletes who don’t get paid. They blooming well should. That’s another event where suits pocket way more dosh than the competitors who made the sacrifices.

Same goes for football. England’s players got slaughtered for wanting some readies for the Euros.

More pampered millionaires. That may be the case but the likes of UEFA and FIFA are drowning in dosh – all made possible by the people who bust a gut all their lives to get the chance to lace up their boots.

The Ryder Cup is one of the biggest sporting events on the planet and if you want to make it free then just pick 12 random club golfers from each side and let them play for fun.

If you want the very best in the game then pay them for the privilege. You wouldn’t get Tom Cruise doing the school nativity play for free and then charging parents 750 bucks to watch it.

Yet that is what is expected at the Ryder Cup. Golf doesn’t have a soul. No sport does. It’s an entertainment business and the entertainers deserve their share – even if they are already minted.