Just like that, a flick of a switch as it were, the angst between the PGA Tour and, by extension, the DP World Tour with LIV Golf and its Saudi Arabian benefactors disappeared. Abracadabra, or some such sorcery at play. For, like a lightning bolt out of the blue, the factions united with a merger that will have one and all singing from the same hymn sheet and countless amounts of oil money pouring into the coffers.
Who saw it coming?
Not many of the players, it would seem, with reactions from those previously on either side of the divide flummoxed by the development which established a new, as yet unnamed, entity to propel men’s professional golf going forward. All friends again, all supping from the same source of filthy lucre and all hard feelings and wild words forgiven and forgotten apparently.
It is, for sure, a remarkable and complex turnaround, especially from the PGA Tour …
- June 7, 2023
