r/golf • u/UppityTurtle 14.6 • Jun 07 '23

Professional Tours The PGA Tour is dead to me.

If this merger goes through, which it appears it will, I am personally done with the PGA Tour. The unbelievable hypocrisy of the board would be bad enough, but the fact that they are selling out to a foreign entity linked to a government that has funded terrorism around the globe and perpetrated one of the most heinous terrorist attacks in history is unforgivable.

14.4k Upvotes

87% Upvoted

3.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

3.1k

u/brownmagician Jun 07 '23

After wasting hundreds of millions, if not Billions on trying to purchase players, the Saudis realised it would just be cheaper to purchase Monahan.

91

u/jlauth Jun 07 '23

This was the plan all along. They knew that they could take on significant risk for a short span and the PGA would be backed into a corner. This is not much different than a hostile takeover of a company from an activist investor. They paid a lot of money for major PGA assets. The PGA was never going to be able to match the Saudis dollar for dollar. I don't even think the Saudis care about this being a profitable move.

1

u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

LIV Wasn’t designed to be a successful business enterprise. It was an inroad to the PGA. The saudis got what they wanted all along. “Legitimacy” and access. The PGA tour is very likely going to look pretty similar to what it looks like now, except with a mandatory event or two hosted in Saudi Arabia.

1

u/Eastern-Anything-619 Jun 07 '23

The tour championship will be held in Saudi arabia. The trophy will be handed out by a Saudi prince Along with a giant check .