PGA Tour deal with LIV Golf details leaked with stunning change

Particular particulars from the PGA Tour’s cope with the Saudi Public Funding Fund (PIF) have lastly begun to emerge.

In accordance with a report from the Day by day Mail, an English outlet, an elite international golf tour that includes the world’s finest gamers will start in 2025.

The tour will stage 18 tournaments, with 12 of these occasions happening in america.

Prize cash for these marquee occasions would improve by roughly $25 million, as gamers from the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, and LIV Golf would all be eligible to compete.

Golfers from every league would even be allowed to crossover and play on every tour, starkly contrasting how issues presently stand in skilled golf.

Since June 2022, the PGA Tour has suspended those that bolted to LIV Golf. The DP World Tour invoked the identical precept and even barred LIV gamers from enjoying on the European Ryder Cup crew.

Picture by Jason Allen/ISI Images/Getty Photos

However beneath the brand new construction, the PGA Tour will keep management over all golf operations, one thing PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan emphasised throughout his press convention forward of the Tour Championship.

“The PGA Tour is within the driver’s seat,” Monahan mentioned on Aug. 22.

“Our dedication is to maneuver from the divisive nature of the connection we needed to a productive one, for us to have the ability to make a elementary transition to our enterprise with the formation of NewCo, to have an investable entity for PIF to consider in and in a position to put money into that beforehand didn’t exist, for the PGA Tour to be accountable for the way forward for males’s skilled golf and for us to be companions.”

Monahan didn’t delve into what skilled golf will appear to be past 2024 on the Tour Championship.

However the Day by day Mail report appears to have unearthed some secrets and techniques. Whether or not this would be the construction stays to be seen, but it surely seems believable primarily based on discussions and different variables inside the framework settlement.

Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Taking part in By. You’ll be able to comply with him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. Make sure to take a look at @_PlayingThrough too.