The Senate finance committee has introduced legislation that would revoke the PGA Tour’s tax exemption status and deem Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund ineligible for lucrative tax breaks.
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan announced initiatives on a “Player Benefit Program” to compensate players who remained with the tour and “Player Discipline” for LIV Golf members who seek to return to the tour.
Harman was 36 holes away from weekend of his life, one that could end with him capturing the claret jug, and he had to play in front of fans who didn’t want to see him do it.
Against a changing golf and socio-economic landscape, the head of the R&A said he would not rule out the governing body getting into business with Saudi Arabia.
So far the proposal has elicited strong, emotional responses from all walks of the game, but R&A boss Martin Slumbers said there have been two areas receiving the most interest.
The hope is that the African Amateur Championship will give players from Africa a pathway into the top amateur and professional events, and is part of a wider R&A effort to develop the sport in the continent.
For the better part of two years, in the void of true, public-facing leadership in the PGA Tour’s battle against an existential threat, Rory McIlroy has stepped into the role and took a stand for what he believed was right.
Golf’s civil war is over. Well, it might be over. Depends who you ask. The professional game has at least reached detente, and though no one knows for certain where the sport is going and who will be guiding it and what it all means, there is one incontrovertible takeaway from two years of drama, conflict, instability, and struggle:
Those doing the questioning made sure the proceedings were entertaining, and occasionally informative, with a 267-page document dump at the hearing’s onset offering a number of surprising admissions.
In his opening remarks during the overnight US Congressional hearing on the planned partnership between the tour and PIF, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) said there had been a side-agreement among members of the PGA Tour and PIF negotiations that Norman would be pushed out in involvement with the new alliance.
In prepared remarks for today’s Congressional hearing on the proposed deal between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) will assert the new alliance shows how a “brutal, repressive regime can buy influence – indeed even take over – a cherished American institution simply to cleanse its public image”.
In the piece Price writes there remains misinformation and misunderstanding about the framework agreement, although concedes that the tour is partially at fault for the messaging.
Originally scheduled for the first week of November in Jeddah, LIV Golf’s $US50 million championship will now be played in late October outside of Miami at Trump Doral, which hosted the inaugural LIV Golf team championship last season.
Attorney Larry Klayman, who has been seeking a class-action antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour, wrote that the release of the documents appeared to be a clerical error by the court.
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