His vitriol was LIV’s bread and butter in getting airplay, but there is no need for any of that in golf’s newly peaceful and beautifully enhanced golden fairways.Įven the R&A has welcomed the partnership, signalling that all the majors will, as will the world rankings. Meanwhile, Greg Norman, the LIV chief executive, looks toast. From St James’ Park to St Andrews links he has emerged as the top player. Yasir Al-Rumayyan happens to be the chairman of both. Nothing has been decided but is likely to involve a team event that will run separately to the schedules of the PGA Tour and DP World Tour, which will be entirely funded by Public Investment Fund, the Saudi sovereign fund that bankrolls LIV as well as Newcastle United. The new, for-profit entity looks to overhaul male golf at the highest level to unrecognisable degrees. There will be billions of dollars, probably in the tens, pumped into golf but the haste in announcing this alliance from the depths of bitterness was utterly extraordinary and the sport reeled in amazement.
PGA Tour Commissioner, Jay Monahan, described the meeting as “heated” and “tense”. Someone had written “LIV” over the top of it. Have the Saudis effectively bought professional male golf? Well, as one high-profile player told Telegraph Sport on Tuesday – henceforth recorded one of the most important dates in the history of the professional sport, “all it took were 15 LIV events until they buckled”.Īnother indication of the brewing dissent was the notice identifying a “Player Meeting” at the PGA Tour event in Canada on Tuesday night. The PGA Tour has caved into the threat of LIV Golf – and carried the DP World Tour along with it – by agreeing a shock “merger” with the breakaway circuit on Tuesday.
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