The most disruptive year in golf is coming to an end
that week and said pointedly about any player who joined LIV or was thinking about it:"Have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour?"“They were going down their path, we were going down ours, and after a lot of introspection you realize all this tension in the game is not a good thing,” Monahan said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.
The deal was in the works for the last seven weeks, when Monahan first met with Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of the PIF. Players typically approve changes to the schedule and other competition matters. On this one, they were left out. “In the short term, I expect a lot of questions and criticism,” Monahan said. “In the long run, players who stayed with the PGA Tour will see they benefited in many ways.”— including LIV Golf — with those of the PGA and European tours. The new entity has not been named.
As for the new role of Greg Norman, Al-Rumayyan said only that Norman is LIV Golf's commissioner and details of his future role would be announced in the coming weeks.
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