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Jon Rahm’s becoming a member of LIV Golf precipitated a number of response. PGA Tour officers are actually livid in regards to the Spaniard’s departure, particularly given his earlier statements. One of many PGA Tour officers, who wished to stay nameless, expressed his frustrations with Jon Rahm in an interview with ESPN. He couldn’t however point out Al-Rumayyan, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, who realized that he can do what he desires with cash.
“Yasir stood down for some time”– he instructed ESPN.
“However as he stored studying about all these different suitors, I feel he simply determined, let’s go after the Masters champion, the man who stated he would not be purchased for any worth, and identify him a worth he could not refuse.
The lesson right here is when you have sufficient cash, you are able to do no matter you need to in America.
The Saudis have figured that out. Yasir understands that.”
PGA Tour official: It was nothing greater than a shot throughout the bow
The PGA Tour official believes that the PIF despatched a transparent message to the PGA Tour leaders with this transfer. The actual fact is that the PGA Tour doesn’t have the monetary energy to compete with the Saudis. Exactly due to this, many imagine that one of the best answer could be a merger. The deadline for an settlement between PIF and the PGA Tour is December 31. It will not be unusual if the Saudis would “steal” a couple of extra stars within the coming interval and supply large figures for his or her arrivals.
“It was nothing greater than a shot throughout the bow.
It was a * you by PIF to the tour that they will seize anybody, even the man who was adamant about not becoming a member of.
300 million {dollars} is a rounding error to the Saudis.
Their message was: ‘You need to preserve preventing with us, actually? You need to preserve speaking to everybody and field us out? Good luck with that.’
That is their message.”
