Last week’s surprising announcement that the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund plan to partner has swallowed the game whole, and that includes this week’s U.S. Open.
It’s hard to answer what you do not know, and if the past week in golf has told us anything, it’s that so few people have any idea of what’s going in in the professional game.
They are journeymen, and you will hear about their journeys this week because they qualify as feel-good stories. But they’re also something more, because in a past week and year when everything in the game of golf has seemingly had a dollar sign attached, they are stories that are priceless.
In a letter to PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations asked for records and communications between the tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
In a federal lawsuit filed at the end of last week in district court in New Jersey, Cool Brands Supply, a corporation in Argentina that specialises in skateboard lifestyle merchandise, accused LIV Golf and Mickelson of using a “nearly identical logo”.
In response to last week’s announcement that the PGA Tour will attempt to partner with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, LIV Golf’s Martin Kaymer told the Telegraph that golf’s “hypocrites” should go play in Japan.
Fitzpatrick said he expected the questions to come and wondered how he should answer them. Ultimately he came to the conclusion that anything regarding the new entity, the re-integration of LIV players, and other issues about the tour’s future is “not really my job”.
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said he doesn’t envision LIV Golf events running concurrently in 2024, and there’s belief the PGA Tour’s new deal with Saudi Arabia could fold the Saudi-backed circuit entirely. LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman, it appears, has other plans.
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan confirmed, after Tuesday’s historic partnership between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, that LIV Golf members will have the chance to regain membership with the tour. Rory McIlroy, however, believes discipline should still be in order.
Speaking with the media ahead of this week’s RBC Canadian Open, McIlroy – who has served as the face of the PGA Tour during its battle with the Saudi-backed league – expressed that his feelings towards LIV remain unchanged.
To those who sensed that McIlroy might be feeling betrayed after Wednesday’s stunning announcement between the tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, well, you’re right.
While it remains to be seen what role, if any, LIV Golf will have in the new entity created by the PGA Tour, PIF and the DP World Tour, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan told the media that he doesn’t foresee LIV Golf events being run concurrently next season.
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is well-aware that Wednesday’s surprise announcement that the tour will merge with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund – the primary financial backer of LIV Golf – will be seen as a major reversal, to put it lightly.
Augusta National Golf Club and the R&A released statements Tuesday regarding the merger between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, calling the deal a “positive development” for the game.
The PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which is the primary financial backer of LIV Golf, have announced a treaty and potential merger, ending two years of civil war in professional golf.
Viktor Hovland, fresh off of capturing the Memorial on Sunday afternoon, was still in the Columbus area Monday morning, and for good reason: He was serving as caddie to friend and former Oklahoma State teammates Zach Bauchou as Bauchou attempts to make it through final US Open qualifying.
According to Endeavor chief executive Ari Emanuel, the company was pitched a stake in the Saudi-backed circuit by Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau.
This week at Colonial showed Grillo has the game and form to be one of the game’s better international players, to be the performer that was promised so many years ago.
Australian Golf Digest
