The Northern Irish golfer has mixed emotions over deal and felt like ‘sacrificial lamb’ for defending the tour
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“So there’s mixed emotions in there as well, as there’s going to be. I don’t understand all the intricacies of what’s going on. It’s a very, what’s the word? There’s a lot of ambiguity. There’s a lot of things still to be sort of thrashed out. But at least it means that the litigation goes away, which has been a massive burden for everyone that’s involved with the [PGA Tour] and that’s playing the tour. And we can start to work toward some sort of way of unifying the game at the elite level.
“All I’ve wanted to do and all I’ve wanted in the past year, from basically this tournament, is to protect the future of the PGA Tour and protect the aspirational nature of what the PGA Tour stands for. And I hope that this does that. “But I think with the headlines being, “merges with LIV,” like that’s not the [case]. I mean, if you look at the structure of how it’s structured now, this new company sits above everything. Jay Monahan’s the CEO of that. So technically anyone that is involved with LIV now would answer to Jay. So the PGA Tour have control of everything.
“And one thing as well is, whether you like it or not, the PIF were going to keep spending the money in golf. At least the PGA Tour now controls how that money is spent. So, you know, if you’re thinking about one of the biggest sovereign wealth funds in the world, would you rather have them as a partner or an enemy? At the end of the day, money talks and you would rather have them as a partner.
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