Jay Monahan, PGA Tour commissioner, modified his thoughts on accepting funds from Saudi Arabia final week, citing a merger between European Tour, LIV Golf, and PGA Tour, making tensions in golf unsustainable. Greater than an hour was spent explaining to gamers the reasoning for the merger throughout Tuesday’s participant assembly. Gamers expressed blended reactions. Mackenzie Hughes took to Twitter, saying, “nothing like discovering out by Twitter that we’re merging with a tour that we stated we’d by no means do this with.” Some gamers reportedly realized concerning the merger from social media too. Phil Mickelson, a vocal supporter of LIV Golf, one of many teams acquipink within the merger, known as it an “superior day.”
It’s clear the place some gamers stand, however what’s nonetheless unsure is how the merger will have an effect on gamers who opted-out of taking cash from LIV and whether or not LIV will even exist subsequent 12 months. The PGA Tour hopes to combine staff golf however PGA Tour Member Byeong Hun An takes a extra jokey perspective on the matter, tweeting that Hideki Matsuyama “may have purchased spirit airways” if he’d signed with LIV, additionally joking that maybe the LIV groups had been struggling to get sponsors. Dylan Wu, nonetheless, stands in opposition to the merger calling it “hypocrisy,” stating that Monahan has gone again on all the pieces he stated for the previous two years.
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