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Daily Mirror
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Tom Blow

PGA chief insists LIV Golf deal is not a merger and explains reasons behind decision

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan insists the deal with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) is not a merger with LIV Golf.

Monahan is facing calls to resign after the PGA Tour and DP World Tour agreed a controversial deal with PIF. The decision was not expected, as the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour have spent the previous year in a bitter dispute with PIF's LIV Golf circuit.

Masters champion Jon Rahm insists players who remained loyal to the PGA Tour "feel betrayal" from the organisation's management in the wake of the deal. Yet Monahan insists the PGA Tour had little choice but to strike an agreement and end golf's civil war.

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