Two hundred seventy-four days have passed since PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia sat side-by-side on CNBC and announced a landmark “framework agreement” that was to be the basis of a new cooperation between the two groups.
That new cooperation now seems like a pipe dream as the PGA Tour has its newly found billions and the PIF has continued to grab marquee players like Masters champion Jon Rahm, Englishman Tyrrell Hatton and DP World Tour Player of the Year Adrian Meronk.
Now LIV CEO Greg Norman is throwing another rock at golf’s glass house by dropping LIV’s Official World Golf Ranking application because, as he wrote in a letter to his players, OWGR “has shown little willingness to productively work with us.”
