Tuesday will be a historic day for professional golf.
PGA Tour Chief Operational Officer Ron Price and Board Member Jimmy Dunne were sworn-in at a Senate Subcommittee Hearing in Washington D.C., to discuss the proposed agreement between the PGA Tour DP World Tour, and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund which is the primary financial backer of LIV Golf.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is the chairman of this committee. He has publicly criticized the deal that will bring together the two golf factions who were once at war under a single commercial umbrella.
Blumenthal’s opening remarks were excerpted on the day of the hearing. He said that this wasn’t just about golf but “how a brutal and repressive regime could buy influence, or even take control, of a beloved American institution, simply to clean its public image.”
We’ve gathered some of the most interesting nuggets from the Senate Subcommittee Hearing.
