Tiger Woods says he never received scripted comments reportedly sent from the PGA Tour last year when the tour was intensifying its defensive stance against the just launched LIV Golf circuit.
The framework agreement between the PGA Tour, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and DP World Tour only broadly outlines how the former rival entities intend to coexist, with LIV Golf’s future still undetermined.
Mike Whan knows as much as you do about the PGA Tour’s proposed partnership with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Which is to say, not much at all.
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.
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.
PGA of Australia chief executive officer Gavin Kirkman has addressed Wednesday’s bombshell revelation of a merger between Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and the PGA Tour.
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.
Multiple sources, some of whom spent years working at Pumpkin Ridge, described the local conversation around the first LIV event in the US as tense, divisive and the last thing the Portland area needed.
Australian Golf Digest sources have also confirmed an announcement of a new golf league – separate to the 10 new Asian Tour events – is imminent, and that Norman will be confirmed as its inaugural Commissioner