When information broke initially of summer time that Jay Monahan had secretly labored on a proposal to merge the PGA Tour with LIV Golf’s backer, Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, it appeared like a union was all however a performed deal.
However after the PGA Tour commissioner lastly held a gathering with gamers at TPC Southwind in Memphis this week relating to the matter, a shadow of doubt has been solid over whether or not a deal will likely be finalized in any respect.
“There [are] a variety of shifting components which have to come back collectively for it,” PGA participant Tom Hoge stated Tuesday, by way of The Guardian, including that there is a “very actual risk” {that a} deal would not get finalized.
Rickie Fowler informed the Golf Channel: “There [are] a variety of issues which have to come back collectively for this to occur, and I might say you’d must promote everybody on the concept that is the most suitable choice for the Tour, for the gamers, for everybody shifting ahead.”
Fowler’s attendance at Tuesday’s assembly was noteworthy not simply because he’s a member of the PGA Play Advisory Board, however as a result of so few PGA execs had been even in attendance for Tuesday’s assembly. Golf Month-to-month reported solely 25 of the 70 gamers competing on this week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship had been in attendance for the assembly.
Fellow advisory board members Patrick Cantlay and Rory McIlroy had been notably absent. McIlroy reportedly walked in on the very finish of the assembly after he had completed a exercise.
