PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said he’s working to find a way to reward golfers that stuck with him over LIV Golf.
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“He was more about growing the pie and interest in the game, rather than ‘We're gonna do it X way,’” Dunne told Sports Illustrated. “They have LIV, which, at some level, they've got to think was not what they hoped it would be. They have the ability to align with the PGA Tour, and that is meaningful to them. And that’s it.”
How does Xander Schauffele feel now, after meeting with LIV Golf? Well …
In an interview with the Sunday Times, Schauffele’s views on the proposed deal among the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and the Saudi Public Investment Fund were mixed. They were complicated. They were understandable. In an interview last year with GOLF’s Dylan Dethier, the world’s No. 6-ranked golfer said he had met with LIV Golf, who is also Saudi-backed. Could he have received the large, guaranteed money that so many others took? Perhaps. But he stayed with the PGA Tour. He heard propaganda that the established brand was the wise — and morally correct — choice.
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"I think we would form a panel, including Tour players, that would evaluate what the terms would be," Dunne said, via ESPN. "Remember, they're coming back to compete on the Tour, so they have to be confident that they would be good enough to continue to play, and they have to be willing to incur the penalty for having gone. … Players on the LIV [tour] that wanted to reinstate into the PGA Tour would go through a process [and] suspension. Whatever the penalty was, they'd have to decide whether they wanted to do that or not and then they could play."
The PGA Tour rolls out a blood-red carpet for Saudi Crown Prince and LIV Golf
There was a time in the distant past — that is, as recently as Monday — when the official position of the PGA Tour was that its competitor, the Saudi-backed golf tour known as LIV, was a scandalous, even odious, operation. Referring to Saudi Arabia’s horrific human rights record, PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said last June, “You’d have to be living under a rock to not understand the implications of involving yourself with the Saudis.” But Monahan’s strong comment is now just a reminder that pencils have erasers. In news that was initially shocking but upon reflection really isn't, the PGA Tour announced Tuesday that it will permanently merge with the LIV tour. Monahan said, “The game of golf is better for what we’ve done today.”
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And like Russia and China, Saudi Arabia is an especially bad actor: summary executions, erasure of LGBTQ rights, a war in Yemen, the murder of journalist and Saudi human rights critic Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, women’s rights. It is truly something that the country most responsible for 9/11 bought the PGA Tour, but then the businessman who lied about rushing to help on 9/11, who boasted the next day he now had the tallest building in New York, who lied about seeing Muslims celebrate on rooftops — well, they made him president, and might again. Donald Trump loves the deal, of course. The United States edges closer every day to losing any moral high ground it had left.
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