How the Shocking PGA Tour-LIV Golf Deal Went Down

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🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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With hindsight being 20/20, there appear to be a few things PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan would like to take a mulligan on. And towards the top of this list would be using the word “merger” to describe this new alliance between three crucial parties: the PGA Tour itself, Europe’s DP World Tour, and the Saudi Public Investment Fund. It was just one of many confusing developments that shook the Tour and the world of golf this past week. So today, Mark Schlabach is here to share what he has learned about how this deal came together in the first place, why so many people are so angry about it, and whether it can withstand the many headwinds and scrutiny it now faces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	ESPN Daily is presented by YouTube TV. Try it free today at youtube.com slash NBA 23 new users only terms apply cancel anytime
0:14.7	March Leibov tell us where are you right now Mark?
0:18.7	Jeremy I'm at the LA Country Club
0:21.2	Media Center getting ready for the US open the first one in Los Angeles in 75 years
0:27.2	Well, that's historic and it's been fittingly an historic week in golf last Tuesday the
0:35.4	announcement that's done the world of golf and beyond
0:39.0	Can you take us through that day for you what it was like? I sat down at the computer in my office
0:45.5	And had a couple coffee and thought I was gonna open some emails and
0:50.8	start to write preview stories for the US open and I think it was about
0:56.8	30 a.m.
0:58.2	My editor at ESPN.com Elizabeth Ball called me and said are you watching this on CNBC?
1:04.9	And I said am I watching what on CNBC?
1:12.6	Welcome Jay and Yasser. Thank you for being here. Thank you
1:17.8	Just this picture alone is going to surprise a lot of people seeing the two of you together smiling
1:24.2	She said there's an announcement from Jay Monahan and the Saudis and I said about what she said the Saudis and
1:31.6	live golf and the PJ tour of merging and I said are you liking with me?
1:40.0	It's a historical day for the PJ tour in the game of golf and it's a historical day for the PIF and the DP World Tour
1:49.0	What we're talking about today is coming together to unify the game of golf and to do so under one umbrella
1:59.2	If you had called me last Tuesday morning and told me Nick Sabin had taken a job at Auburn
2:04.0	I would have been less surprised
2:08.0	And I don't think I was the only one look I was upset that I didn't know anything about it
2:13.0	Because that's my job
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