Hall of Famer and eight-time major championship winner Tom Watson wrote a letter to the PGA Tour on Monday asking for answers regarding the league's new deal with LIV Golf and Saudi Arabia.
, sent a letter to Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and the Tour's board on Monday to ask whether the new partnership with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund — something Monahan announced earlier this month before receiving widespread backlash — was the only way to solve the Tour's financial hardship. The questions he posed, he said, were"compounded by the hypocrisy in disregarding the moral issue.
"My loyalty to golf and this country live in the same place and have held equal and significant weight with me over my lifetime," Watson wrote."Please educate me and others in a way that allows loyalty to both, and in a way that makes it easy to look 9/11 families in the eye and ourselves in the mirror."with groups like 9/11 Families United, which slammed him shortly after the merger was announced.
Many details of the new partnership between the Tour, the DP World Tour and LIV Golf are not yet known. Monahan called it a “framework agreement” when he first announced it ahead of the RBC Canadian Open, and both the Tour and LIV Golf have since filed motions to dismiss their litigation against each other in court. It’s unclear if LIV Golf will continue to exist after this season.
A Player Advisory Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday before the Travelers Championship this week in Connecticut, though Monahan will not attend.
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