If the PGA Tour and LIV Golf had used GolfLync Inc., Maybe They Would Have Gotten Along Better
Golf is about doing something you like, with people you like – what a concept. It’s hard to blame players and golf lovers from feeling blindsided by the announcement of a full-blown merger between two of golf’s major tours. The unexpected agreement between PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and Saudi businessman Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan, governor of the Saudi Public Investment Fund (“PIF”), that the PGA and LIV Golf would suddenly merge, was out-of-the-blue. After months of increasingly rancorous suits and court battles, “merger” wasn’t a term seen on a lot of radar screens. The PGA Tour, hosting tournaments in…