Ever since the PGA Tour and LIV Golf saga started, there have been several revelations in the golf circuit. Golf journalist Alan Shipnuck recently blasted the PGA Tour for partnering with LIV Golf and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF).

The PGA Tour has been accused of ‘poisoning’ the realm of professional golf. As per Shipnuck’s disclosure, the PGA Tour was offered the chance to collaborate with the Investment Fund in 2021, prior to the formation of the LIV league.

At that time, Jay Monahan dismissed the PIF participation. Nevertheless, now it seems that they made a mistake since they acknowledged that they had no choice but to join forces with the PIF.

Alan Shipnuck feels that Monahan and the company have affected the professional golf world in several ways. He went on to discuss the same on Mirror Sport, stating:

“Naivety would be a kind way of putting it. It was cluelessness, it’s denial and the Tour has paid a heavy price for that. After two-and-a-half years of strife, they are negotiating with the Saudis, which they could have done before LIV launched.

“Before a bunch of their best players left, before poisoning professional golf in a lot of ways. So it was predictable.”

The PGA Tour didn’t realize the threat the Saudi powerhouse posed until June of this year, at which point they announced a ‘framework agreement’ with PIF.

This would give the Saudis direct access to the tours and give them the ability to have an impact on both the DP World Tour and the PGA Tour.

LIV League planning for a third season amid uncertainty with PGA Tour

The LIV League wraps up its second season this weekend in Miami. And now, it’s time for the league to set up another schedule for the third season.

Although the merger news has been buzzing around for quite a long time, the LIV league is gearing up with a third-year schedule for 2024.

There could be a possibility that by the end of this year, the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund may run LIV Golf as a component of a newly established for-profit company.

Alternatively, the league might continue to be its own separate tour and try to undermine the golf industry. But the chances of reaching a consensus and engaging in negotiations appear to be dwindling daily.

As a result, LIV league executives are trying to set a worldwide schedule for their third season, which might or might not include more players as well as teams.