https://nypost.com/2023/06/06/phil-mickelson-vindicated-for-long-view-of-pga-liv-golf-clash/
Don't remember hearing about this.
"Mickelson met with PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan in the fall of 2021 with a proposal to create six or eight team events that would guarantee the top players playing together.
The proposal, which included an investor who was prepared to put up $1 billion, was also supported by other top players. The catch was that those six or eight events would be player- and investor-owned, not owned by the PGA Tour.
The PGA Tour refused to go for that proposal, telling the investor Mickelson had for the deal that anything not owned or controlled by the PGA Tour would be considered “hostile.’’
Now, two years later, the same PGA Tour commissioner and board members have gotten into bed with the very Saudi investors they denounced when LIV Golf introduced itself to the world."
I heard this morning that the PGA Tour could get as much as $10 billion from the Saudis. The Saudis basically bought themselves the PGA Tour.