The REAL Reason LIV Golf And PGA Have Merged..

from spending billions of dollars to

unify Global Golf to ending all of the

current ongoing lawsuits between them

here's the real reason PGA and live golf

have merged it's been a wild couple of

years for the sport with the emergence

of a rival league and players being

banned for joining it we've had some

really nasty verbal spats protests and

even lawsuits in court it was almost as

if the game itself was imploding with

people saying that golf will not survive

through this chaos and yet after all

that back and forth and so much

animosity the PGA Tour DP World Tour and

live golf are now merging into one

entity to unify Global Golf and guess

how they're doing it with the help of

the Saudi public investment fund also

known as the pif yes the same one that's

been criticized for pouring billions to

set up live golf but now that the money

is also coming to the PGA Tour it

doesn't seem as bad anymore in all

seriousness though the news came out of

nowhere and hit everyone like a truck

full of bricks not even the PGA Tour or

live golf players knew about it heck

Rory McIlroy who's on The tour's

Advisory Board only found out with the

rest of the world so it was definitely

wild that being said the general

consensus is that this was a much needed

move for the sport you know why well

it's because not only does it end all

the feuds in one single move but it's

also going to solidify the future of the

sport in the long run not to mention

with the amount of money that's going to

go into this new entity now thanks to

the pif there's no way anyone else could

even DARE stand up and start another

venture like live golf like that whole

thing is done and dusted and we're gonna

see a golf turn into this giant thing

over the next few years what does it

actually mean for everyone involved

though and more importantly what are the

fans gonna see in the near future well

for starters the pif will get a lot of

control over the new golfing brand in

fact Yasser al-rumian who's the governor

of the pif will be a part of the new

board of directors and yeah the PGA Tour

commissioner Jay Monahan is going to be

right alongside him obviously money has

played a big role in his decision but

there's also the fact that the PGA Tour

was getting weaker and he had to pull

the trigger what about Liv's CEO Greg

Norman though yeah it looks like he's

been sidelined by Yasir because

apparently he found out about the merger

at the same time as everyone else now

whether that means the end of live golf

or not we'll have to wait and see though

most signs are pointing toward a

different team-based League that looks

and works like Liv but isn't actually

live as a matter of fact Rory McIlroy

also says that he still hates those guys

despite the merger and that this deal

isn't about live golf at all instead he

believes it's only limited to the pif

and the PGA Tour meaning the upstart

circuit won't have any say in how things

are run going forward of course that

doesn't mean it's not a major win for

live golf players who took hundreds of

millions of dollars worth of contracts

and are now probably gonna walk back

into the PGA tour in fact that's

actually one of the major points of

debate right now since people like Rory

think that these guys shouldn't be

allowed back into their previous tour at

least not without paying any penalties

anyway and that folks also means that

people are very mad at Jay Monahan

seriously this guy is villain number one

in golf right now which is wild

considering people loved him for taking

a stand against live golf for so long

that's the thing though Jay has turned

his back on every single principle he's

held ever since the emergence of live

golf which is why fans and players think

he's a total hypocrite

let's go through some of the things he

said in the past I mean just look at his

Feud with the Saudi league and his

comments against Greg Norman he

criticized them for taking billions of

dollars from the public investment fund

even backing protests by the families of

9 11 victims after all the Saudi

government has been criticized for its

human rights issues including the

alleged murder of a journalist Jamal

khashoggi and that was the basis for

this whole Feud with live golf but now

after doing all that for months Jay has

just gone out and taken money from the

pif like it's nothing

and all the human rights issues and all

those arguments yeah they don't matter

anymore either and the only thing he

keeps repeating is how this deal is good

for the game

I don't know about you but that seems a

bit hypocritical to me

that said money does talk at the end of

the day so it's no surprise that golf

has gone down this route as well then

again this is not the only issue with

what he's done there's the whole aspect

of 9 11 families and their protests too

in fact they even published a statement

right after the deal was announced

expressing just how disappointed they

were in Jay in the PGA Tour they thought

that there was an American company that

actually cared about these issues but

the PGA Tour also turned out to be paid

Saudi shills what's more than 9 11

families United also say that the tour's

leaders should be ashamed of their

hypocrisy and greed now those are some

serious allegations how did Jay respond

to them

well he was actually asked to address

these things on live television but

horribly fumbled the things he said

first he couldn't even figure out what

to say and the things he did end up

saying didn't make it any better either

basically he said that he was sorry

about not informing the families of 9 11

victims about this deal earlier and that

he regrets doing that sure he's

apologizing but I don't think they're

mad about him informing them too late

like he didn't even address their actual

grievances though truth be told there's

really no way out of this for Jay

because he has been a hypocrite and

nothing he says will make things any

better as a matter of fact things are so

bad that the PGA Tour golfers are asking

him to resign wait what isn't this deal

supposed to improve the game going

forward especially for the golfers

themselves why are they mad it's simple

really a lot of PGA Tour members feel

like they've been betrayed because they

spent all this time and energy batting

for the tour and staying loyal to it

but rather than support them and

actually go through with the stance

they've held the tour has essentially

turned its back on them you know why

because a lot of these players could

have taken massive deals and just gone

to live golf I mean even Rory McIlroy

says that he feels like a bit of a

sacrificial lamb in this Saga because

everything he did for the tour has been

for nothing that being said Jay Monahan

has said that players like McElroy and

woods will be rewarded handsomely for

their loyalty so hey maybe things aren't

so bad after all are they who knows we

could even see some massive bonuses

being handed out just to calm these

players down and keep them happy plus

expect the purses for a lot of future

events to be massive as well

speaking of events though how is the new

entity even gonna work well so

apparently all the involved parties have

only been talking to each other for

about seven weeks meaning we don't have

any concrete details about the structure

Jay has even said that not a single

dollar has been invested yet still it

looks like the PGA Tour and the DP World

Tour will continue except as a single

Global tour with events across the board

as for live golf well the new entity

will look to continue team golf in some

capacity too now whether that's going to

be in the form of the Saudi League like

Greg Norman says or something else

entirely remains to be seen the best

thing that has come out of this merger

though is the fact that all litigation

is now over so you know the antitrust

lawsuit that live golf members filed

against the PGA Tour yeah that's done

and dusted not to mention the PGA tour's

lawsuit which it filed in retaliation is

also gone and that was mostly about live

golf making players break their

contracts by giving them big money

contracts now the first thought that

comes to mind is that these players

won't be banned by the tour anymore and

will be allowed to walk back in though

multiple sources have said that there

could be some Hefty fines that they've

got to pay if they want to come back I

mean it's all a chaotic mess right now

and no one knows what's happening but

that's why we love this game so much so

there you have it from ending all of the

current ongoing lawsuits between them to

spending billions of dollars to unify

Global Golf this was the real reason PGA

and live golf have merged