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.
The documents, which can be read in full within this story, include internal e-mails, text messages, and other communications between both parties that show some intricacies of how a high stakes deal like this came together.
In the aftermath of this week’s stunning news that the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund were joining forces to create a new company that will run professional golf, some of the biggest questions were about how players who remained loyal to the PGA Tour might possibly be compensated, and how those who defected to LIV Golf would be punished.
Dunne is a member at some of the most exclusive golf clubs in the world, allowing him to rub elbows with some of the biggest power players in the sport.
The golf impresario Jimmy Dunne, the ultimate elite-golf clubby insider with the disarmingly candid demeanour of an old-school New York City cab driver, will be joining the PGA Tour policy board in the new year as an independent director.