and no, we're not talking about the PGA Tour's developmental circuit, which Korn Ferry has been the sponsor of since June 2019. We're talking about the actual Korn Ferry brand, which golf fans likely never gave a second thought ... until now. Korn Ferry is the management consulting company that prepared a memo for the Las Vegas Raiders highlighting Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores' strengths and weaknesses, and that memo became public on Tuesday as Flores remains in a legal battle with the NFL over alleged racial discrimination:

For a consulting firm like Korn Ferry, a full, detailed memo like this is standard procedure (Korn Ferry consulted on the PGA Tour's hiring of new CEO Brian Rolapp, too). But that doesn't make some of the bullet points in the memo any less controversial. This Flores vs. the NFL saga isn't going anywhere, and now the Korn Ferry brand has been thrust into the middle of it. And now golf fans know what the brand does, too.