Woods pragmatic on merger discussions | 00:55One of the key figures behind the rejection of LIV Golf’s application for official world ranking points has suggested “some promises” were made to players who joined the breakaway circuit and those behind the Saudi-backed tour “assumed” it was a given they would be approved.
Watch every round of the PGA Championship LIVE & Exclusive to Fox Sports, available on Kayo. New to Kayo?PGA of America chief executive and Official World Golf Ranking board member Seth Waugh said LIV officials “misunderstood” the process before removing their application when it became clear that while the 54-hole, no cut concept could be worked through, the limited field format and lack of mass opportunities to join couldn’t.
“You know, that’s just never happened. We always kind of look at new tours, and they take a bit of time. One is, are they going to be successful? Are they actually going to launch. Are they going to survive more than one season, and what quality of play is going to be there before we kind of begin to think about it.
“But there is two fundamental things that we weren’t sure we could solve with math, which was relegation and promotion, and what that looked like because that was murky and they didn’t want to share exactly who was sort of there and so we never knew the percentages of what that would look like.“Kind of went back and forth a few times, but they didn’t change their position. We didn’t really change ours.
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