This is a terrible, terrible day for anyone who follows golf, or anyone with a conscience for that matter:
PGA Tour will merge with rival LIV Golf, ending litigation and becoming a larger golf enterprise.
The agreement will combine the golf-related commercial businesses and rights of the Public Investment Fund, which includes LIV Golf, with the PGA Tour and DP World Tour, to create a new “for-profit entity to ensure that all stakeholders benefit from a model that delivers maximum excitement and competition among the game’s best players,” according to a news release.
The agreement ends pending litigation between PGA Tour and LIV Golf. LIV Golf is backed by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, which is controlled by the Saudi crown prince, according to CNBC.
“After two years of disruption and distraction, this is a historic day for the game we all know and love,” said Jay Monahan, PGA Tour commissioner, in a news release. “This transformational partnership recognizes the immeasurable strength of the PGA Tour’s history, legacy and pro-competitive model and combines with it the DP World Tour and LIV — including the team golf concept — to create an organization that will benefit golf’s players, commercial and charitable partners and fans.”
PGA Tour members allegedly found out about the news with the rest of the world. Wesley Bryan, who competed in the 2018 Masters Tournament, tweeted that the PGA Tour should be “ashamed.”...
You're damn right they should be ashamed. After so many players opted to do the right thing and not cash in on the Saudi blood money being offered in the LIV tour, their organization betrayed them and all who despise the murderous Saudi regime of Mohammed "Bone Saw" bin Salman. Like Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods:
Earlier this year, the Human Rights Watch said that Saudi Arabia was attempting to cover up its human rights violations with LIV Golf, calling it “sportswash.” In 2022, Tiger Woods allegedly turned down $700 million to join the professional golf tour. Woods said he disagreed with players who left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf. “I think that what they’ve done is they’ve turned their back on what has allowed them to get to this position,” he said.
Venal hack Monahan says this is an historic day, and it is, but not in the way he imagines. What a disgusting, blood- money- worshipping POS.
BONUS:
“The PGA Tour has wimped out — let's just say what it is — and they've gone into business with the Saudis, the people who killed Jamal Khashoggi, the people responsible for 9/11. I am shocked.”
— The Recount (@therecount) June 6, 2023
— @cbrennansports condemns the announced PGA-LIV Golf merger pic.twitter.com/kH1E47JoNS
So, you preach loyalty to a tour and convince guys not to take 8 and 9 figure deals based, in part, on that loyalty and, in part, on the source of the money. Then those guys find out on Twitter YOU took the very same money?
— Scott Van Pelt (@notthefakeSVP) June 6, 2023
Nino Brown, “Always business, never personal.”
BONUS II: As you might imagine, there are a lot of Twitter assholes (oxymoron) mocking PGA players for not taking the blood money and running. Here's how certain classy, two- legged rats are taunting McIlroy --
BONUS III: 9/11 Families United has issued a blistering statement on Monahan's hypocrisy and betrayal.
(Image: Phil Mickelson and Bone Saw/ Paul Childs-Action Images/Reuters via USA TODAY; Pool via REUTERS/Andrej Isakovic)
