Who knew? Pádraig Harrington is nerdish about a Clash of Clans which, in talking to Joe Duffy on RTÉ radio, about the whole PGA Tour, DP World Tour and the Saudi Arabia sovereign wealth Public Investment Fund (PIF) merger into its as-yet-unnamed new professional men’s golf entity, was a rather fitting titbit of information giving the ructions that have been going on in the sport for over a year since LIV’s arrival on the scene.
And Harrington — as ever — was open and upfront in admitting, “all the golfers [on the PGA Tour] were blindsided, nobody saw this coming … everybody was exceptionally surprised. It came from nowhere. It’s a huge U-turn by the PGA Tour and the likely reason is they were forced into it [for commercial reasons].”
Harrington, on a short break home in Dublin before resuming tournament duty at next …
- June 10, 2023
