PGA Tour and his power brokers seem to have another vision of reuniting golf than their counterparts in the Liv.
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If you were listening to Rory Mcilroy and PGA Commissioner Jay Monahan on Wednesday, you can get the idea that PGA Tour and Saudi Arabic Public Investment Fund are making progress in their negotiations. If you want to make a generous reading of Monahan’s comments, you can even say something is on the horizon.
But you may have lost something after Mcilroy spoke honestly for the evolution of his thinking Towards Liv Golf and Monahan appreciated President Donald Trump To hope to play a role in getting the agreement on the finish line. You may have lost a few lines that can end up as a contagious point as negotiations begin to clear their last obstacle and a vision for men’s professional golf has been created.
The goal, from the point of view of Mcilroy and Monahan, is the “reunification” of the game. Ever since the framework agreement was first announced, the question of whether and how Liv Golf would exist after the game came back together.
If you ask those who play in Liv, the detached tournament will still have a home in the golf ecosystem.
Phil Mickelson believes The link is just starting. Bryson dechambeau There are plans for crushers exclusivity.
This week in Liv Adelaide, the New Liv Golf Scott O’Neil Director General said he hopes a finished PGA-PIF deal will help accelerate things for Liv.
“For us in Liv, we are hoping this will unblock the possibility,” O’Neil told PGA-Pif union this week in Liv Adelaide. “This can unblock the opportunity with markets, with courses, marketing partners, with television networks, with the game growth, with competition opportunities, with new formats.
“I’m excited about the deal,” said O’neil later “I think now we’re going to the moon and back, and I hope it will help like an accelerator, but I’m very sure where we are in this business and the interest we currently have. “
Great winner five times Brooks Koepka believes that recent decisions from USA and R&A to give Liv players a way to gain an exception in the open and open championship of the US makes a clear statement about Liv’s country in this sport.
“This is the first step of many people I think we’re looking to get,” Koepka said Tuesday before Liv Adelaide. “The opportunity is there. I think organizations around the world – R&A, USA – they are watching Liv Golf as part of the golf ecosystem now. This is a big, big step forward for us. “
All this will make you believe that Liv Golf and its members believe they will stay around when the union is over.
Finally, the Liv-Pga Tour Deal appears on the eve of-something
Mcilory and Monahan hinted at something different on Wednesday as their visions passed for what a unified sport will look like.
When asked about his meeting with Trump, Monahan described the PGA Tour’s vision for Endgame.
Which is the golf game operating under a tour with all the best players playing in that a tour.
All the best players playing under a tour.
Asked what PGA Tour and Liv look like, Monahan did not leave the stated purpose.
“What it means is the reunion of the game, which is what we have been and are focused,” Monahan said. “Sandicily, this is what fans love. So when you talk about reunion, this is all the best players in the world competing with each other and against each other.
“If you think what fans want,” Monahan said later. “Fans want reunion. This is what we are focused on. “
For his part, Mcilroy said on Wednesday that PGA Tour should allow LIV players who still have the status of return and play and eventually allow them to earn capital at PGA Tour. The big champion four times noted that it would be good for everyone on the tournament if players like Dechambeau returned.
Asked about the idea of reunion and if he heard from players in Liv that they want to return, Mcilroy admitted what a contagious point in negotiations could become.
“I would say, look, you have heard it yourself. Like Jon Rahm would like to play here this week or he would like to play Phoenix Open,” Mcilroy said. “There are certain events that they eventually miss. I think the hard thing for me, you know, is that they want to do it, but then they also want to play some events here. Well, okay, do not know if it will be a good opportunity.
Mcilroy said he could see PGA Tour trying to use liv in certain markets where it is popular, like Australia, but it is ultimately unsafe where or how the team format will go into the schedule in the game of reunited.
“We’ll see,” Mcilroy said about Livi’s role in the unified game. “Do they get a smaller part of the schedule maybe or, you know, we try to – there are some markets in which their product has worked. Adelaide, for example, this week. So are there certain markets where We try to choose the best cherries that make sense and try to do something with them?
“I don’t know. Like this is a lot – that’s over my salary class these days. “
While Mcilroy has removed himself from his previous role as the top of the spear in the Battle of PGA Tour with Liv, he made a clear thing about Breakoway League’s place after the dust is set.
