Because the PGA Tour continues to barter with Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, two main gamers within the talks will compete in opposition to one another on the golf course.
Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan are grouped for the primary spherical of the DP World Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship, which begins Thursday and shall be contested at three programs within the Fife, Scotland, space – St. Andrews’ Previous Course, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns. Monahan’s skilled associate for the occasion is Billy Horschel whereas Al-Rumayyan will staff with LIV member Dean Burmester.
Within the group behind them for the opening spherical at Carnoustie shall be Rory McIlroy and his dad, Gerry McIlroy. On Friday at Kingsbarns, Monahan will play with the McIlroys whereas Al-Rumayyan’s staff is paired with one other LIV member in Louis Oosthuizen. On Saturday at St. Andrews, McIlroy shall be paired with Al-Rumayyan with Monahan and Oosthuizen’s groups collectively.
Monahan spent final week on the Presidents Cup in Royal Montreal, although didn’t converse to reporters in regards to the standing of the negotiations. Earlier this month, the 2 sides met for a number of days in New York Metropolis.
“I’d say that the precedence, it’s been enhanced,” Monahan mentioned on Aug. 28 throughout the Tour Championship. “It’s stronger. That’s a direct results of dialogue and dialog and actually beginning to discuss in regards to the future, future product imaginative and prescient and the place we will take our sport. I believe once you get into productive conversations, that enhances the chance of optimistic outcomes and that enhances the spirit of these very conversations. I believe that’s the place issues stand.”
Additionally within the area are a number of extra LIV gamers, together with Jon Rahm (who final Tuesday celebrated the start of his third little one), Brooks Koepka, David Puig, Tyrrell Hatton, Patrick Reed, Talor Gooch, Eugenio Chacarra, Branden Grace, Caleb Surratt, Hudson Swafford and Peter Uihlein.
