PIF Proposed Unification Deal to PGA TOUR Last Week – Here’s What They Offered

The Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) reportedly sent the PGA TOUR a letter last week that included two terms of what could have been the first steps in the reunification of professional golf, only for the TOUR to deem the requests unacceptable.

A new report from The Guardian states the PIF sent correspondence to the TOUR sometime last week, hoping for LIV Golf to continue operating as it has for the past several years and that the PIF’s governor, Yasir al-Rumayyan, would take a job as co-chairman of PGA TOUR Enterprises.

The PIF, in turn, would invest $1.5 billion into PGA TOUR enterprises, a match of the investment from Strategic Sports Group. The TOUR replied this past Monday and said neither of those terms was acceptable:

“Those with detailed knowledge of the situation stress reunification of golf is the PGA Tour’s core aim, a matter that is hardly assisted by LIV continuing in its present form. There would also be understandable unease within the PGA Tour should Rumayyan, whose organisation has bankrolled LIV, be afforded such a prominent position as the breakaway tour continues on its own path.”

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It was supposedly the first interaction the TOUR and the PIF had since meeting at the White House in late February, when President Donald Trump started to get involved in the professional game. 

The two sides are still remarkably distant in terms of what the true middle ground might be. Jay Monahan, PGA TOUR Commissioner, said recently:

“We believe there’s room to integrate important aspects of LIV Golf into the PGA Tour platform.”

But those aspects are unknown. Still, several years into the PIF and PGA TOUR announcing the establishment of a framework agreement, we seem just as far off as we were then.

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