McIlroy has the attention of some of the most powerful people in the world, and he’s not afraid to offer an opinion or listen intently when the time is right.
Monahan spoke days after the tour announced that he (along with player representative Adam Scott) met with US president Donald Trump regarding negotiations between the tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
The news came as part of a statement the tour released in which it confirmed that commissioner Jay Monahan and PGA Tour pro Adam Scott met with Trump on Tuesday.
At the moment, it seems negotiations between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s PIF and its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, are enmeshed in anti-trust regulation hell, forcing a harrowing holding pattern in which all of golf’s lawyers and all the kingdom’s men can’t seem to put what’s left of the tour back together again.
The longer that “framework agreement” negotiations take, the more a general apathy sets in among golf fans, who remain the biggest victim in this whole mess. There’s rising apathy among the players, too.
The PGA Tour commissioner continued to assert progress is being made in discussions with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment towards unification in professional golf, but stressed negotiations remain complex regarding an ultimate deal.
The framework agreement between the PGA Tour and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia reached its one-year anniversary on Thursday, and while tour players continue to express optimism that a deal can be reached, they also seem resigned to the possibility that a resolution might still be quite a way off.
In a letter to the PGA Tour’s directors of the policy board, Dunne said he’s done with his position effective “immediately”, citing a lack of progress on a potential deal with PIF as one of his reasons.
Australian Golf Digest
