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Golf Monthly
Golf Monthly
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Nick Bonfield

Two Years After The Shock Merger Announcement, Men’s Professional Golf Is Still A Mess. Here’s My Plan To Fix It…

Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau wait at The Showdown.

In June 2023, PGA Tour chief executive Jay Monahan (who will be replaced later this summer by Brian Rolapp) and PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan stood in front of television cameras and announced a shock 'framework agreement' that pledged to unify men’s professional golf. Two years on, very little has changed.

At the time, the announcement came out of the blue and felt extremely rushed and vague, almost irresponsibly so. Given what’s happened since, those with that initial view have been vindicated and then some.

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