After a year and a half of quibbling and legal battles, The PGA Tour and LIV Golf team up for Saudi cash. At the beginning of this mess, when LIV Golf launched in late 2021, the PGA Tour made it abundantly clear they thought the new league was dirty. Dirty, as in taking cash from a kingdom known for funding terrorist acts.
Jay Monahan, the commissioner of the PGA Tour, was very vocal on the matter by bringing in the 9/11 community and the victims’ families. Today, however, he is whistling a new tune with the merger of the two groups.
Jimmy Dunne is the guy who negotiated the sportswashing deal with LIV Golf. I wrote about it over at the Victory Girls Blog.
Today, The Gent (my husband), who spent 36 years in the golf business as a professional, joins me on my podcast to discuss the merger.
This Is Big
There is so much to discuss about this story.
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- The Players and how they feel
- The administrators who made the deal and why
- Jimmy Dunne and Jay Mohanan
- The politics of the deal
- What it means for golf’s future, it isn’t good
- The Saudi’s trying to buy a better reputation
- and how the PGA Tour sold the world of golf to a foreign entity.
What happens to the players adamant about not going to LIV Golf? What happens to them now?
Jimmy Dunne and Jay Mohana are hypocrites with greedy souls who don’t give one single damn about “growing the sport.”
The politics of Saudi Arabia want to buy a better reputation with the American people. I wonder what Terry Strada has to say about that?
How is this good for game of golf? Every kid out there with dream of playing on the tour will be contractually bound to the murderous kingdom & muzzled like a rabid dog. #NeverForget https://t.co/Y6GoIlFHnK
— justterry (@TerrySStrada) June 10, 2023
Terry Strada is the National Chair for the 9/11 Families United group. She lost her husband, Tom, in the attacks on September 11, 2001. Terry and her coalition have been busy getting our government to become transparent about the responsible people for that tragic day.
My husband recently retired from the golf industry/business. The game isn’t the same anymore with the rapidly changing times. There were other reasons why he retired too. I don’t think he can enjoy watching it on television anymore.
Politics infiltrating every aspect of our lives makes me wonder what will be next and whether we will ever be able to enjoy any leisure in our lives genuinely.
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