Congressional lawmakers are expected to grill two PGA Tour officials on Tuesday in a hearing focused on the organization's controversial deal with Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf.
Ron Price, the PGA Tour's chief operating officer, and Jimmy Dunne, a member of the group's governing board, are set to appear before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Price amid criticism that the alliance between the once bitterly competitive professional golfing Lawmakers also have raised concerns that the deal violates federal antitrust laws as it would merge two golf organizations into one super league where the world's most talented golfers would compete,...
"The PGA Tour brazenly announced the deal as an agreement to 'merge commercial operations under common ownership,'" Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden wrote in alast month to the U.S. Department of Justice."While the PGA Tour apparently has attempted to backtrack from its initial statement by removing the word 'merge' from the press release announcing the deal, its impacts cannot be erased.
Last month, the PGA Tour abruptly announced it was forming a partnership with LIV Golf's parent organization, the Public Investment Fund, or
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