McIlroy cautioned that the current state of affairs, with two entities currently holding very different forms of competition and some players secured by LIV through the late 2020s, will require patience to be worked out.
Multiple sources familiar with the matter told Golf Digest that LIV Golf’s team component is one of many highly contested subjects in a potential deal.
Spieth did not go into any detail about who else would be there or if it was taking place three days from now, though he did say he believes this potential meeting could be beneficial for both parties.
Though the incontrovertible takeaway from the past two years in professional golf is that no one knows anything, at least for certain, we’ve spent much of this week at TPC Sawgrass gathering intel on the status of the deal.
Yasir Al-Rumayyan, head of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and the de facto head of LIV Golf, has been accused of “having carried out the instructions” of Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with “malicious intent” according to a lawsuit filed in Canada.
Monahan spoke at the New York Times DealBook Summit, covering a number of topics from the tumultuous past year that included the continued threat of losing players to LIV Golf, the tour’s surprise framework agreement with PIF in negotiations unknown to the players, and the subsequent leave of absence Monahan took to address his own mental health issues.
The US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has invited PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan to testify at a public hearing on July 11.
The United States Department of Justice has notified the PGA Tour that it will review the tour’s planned partnership with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Since news broke last week of a framework deal between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), professional golfers and officials have mostly emphasized they don’t know what the future holds. Bryson DeChambeau, though, was not shy in voicing what he thinks will happen, and what he wants to Read more…
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Australian Golf Digest
