One of the oldest and most tradition-bound sports was thrown into chaos on Tuesday after the Professional Golf Association Tour announced it would merge with LIV Golf, a one-year-old interloper backed by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia. LIV had disrupted the sport by luring away some of the world’s top male players with eye-popping paydays in a multibillion-dollar sportswashing effort.
”The binding element to it is the drop of the litigation,” said Mr. Monahan, of the agreement, underscoring how significant a threat the lawsuits had become. Putting the PGA Tour further on its back heel, the United States Department of Justice began an antitrust investigation of the organization. That action is said to be unaffected by the agreement with LIV.at the Toronto-area Oakdale Golf and Country Club after last year’s edition – the first in three years to take place without pandemic restrictions – had teed off during LIV’s inaugural weekend event.
The swirl of uncertainty pulled in the British golfer Matt Fitzpatrick, who had suggested earlier this year that former colleagues who had defected to the LIV Tour should be banned from the PGA circuit. Mr. Fitzpatrick chose to avoid his scheduled press availability on Tuesday.
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