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Charles Curtis

6 pressing questions we have about the PGA Tour – LIV Golf merger

Is your head spinning over the PGA Tour and LIV Golf merger that has players similarly in shock and golf fans making The Office jokes?

Yes, ours too. There’s SO MUCH to take in from this news that has sent shockwaves around the golf world and the fallout may take a while before things settle.

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As we heard the news on Tuesday morning, we all had so many questions to ask. So we’ve collected some of them here and attempted to answer them as best we can with the news changing seemingly by the minute. We’ll update this if we need to:

1
Why is this happening in the first place?

(Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP) (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

The short answer: Money. And also, the future of the PGA Tour.

The longer answer: The merger creates a giant for-profit behemoth that gets rid of the upstart LIV Golf league and instead proves that all the talk of the Saudi sportswashing that the PGA Tour and its golfers called out was for naught.

But it was becoming clear that the LIV Golf route was a huge problem for the PGA Tour. Even with the moral issues of joining LIV, the PGA Tour had to content with LIVers getting guaranteed money for less work instead of grinding it out more on the Tour without the cushion of a good payday.

All of this takes care of that issue.

2
How do players feel about it?

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No official word yet, but …

How should the players feel?

3
Is Jay Monahan going to be as involved as he was?

(AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Hmm.

Monahan is also rightfully being raked over the coals for this quote from a year ago and now selling to the Saudis:

4
Will we get to see all this in the next season of Full Swing?

(Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

A timely tweet here:

5
Did anyone know about this from the PGA Tour's pros?

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We don’t have that answer, but there’s A LOT of speculation over Rory McIlroy’s recent quotes:

That said, he was still fairly anti-LIV:

6
What will the new tour look like?

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No answer to that yet. But: The teams format from LIV? The 54-hole tournaments? Not cuts? The payouts the golfers can receive? No word yet.

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