The PGA Tour are continuing to negotiate with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, but golfing stalwart Tom Watson has outlined where the circuit have gone wrong
Golf legend Tom Watson believes the PGA Tour have made a "huge mistake" in their framework agreement with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia .
Having been a critic of LIV and it's Saudi funding for some time, the Tour's decision to team up with the Middle Eastern backers received widespread backlash, especially from some of the biggest figures in the game. "I think the Board needed a restructuring so that the players had voting power because this is a players’ organisation," Watson told the Five Clubs Podcast. "This organisation went outside of the due process. It wasn’t transparent at all. There were no players involved at all in the negotiations with PIF and Yasir [Al-Rumayyan]. That needed to be.“That was a huge mistake, I think, and I think the players thought so too. A single player needed to be involved in that, at least.
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