The PGA Tour, Presented by Saudi Arabia

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Some weeks are more hectic than others. On Tuesday, the PGA Tour announced that it intended to partner with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, the financial backer of LIV Golf, to create a new for-profit entity. If this agreement becomes a reality, the war between the Tour and LIV will come to an end, with the sides merging interests. This episode of The Fried Egg Podcast attempts to make sense of the whole mess. First, Andy runs through the basics of what happened and gives some initial takes. Then former PGA Tour player (and member of the player advisory council and policy board) Joe Ogilvie joins Andy (11:50) to discuss his thoughts on the deal, how the coming months and years might unfold, and where the Tour went wrong in the past. Later, Andy brings on Fried Egg contributor Joseph LaMagna (1:09:20) to talk about the future of LIV and how the dynamics between players might play out.

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0:00.0	I'm Mr. Green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
0:05.0	And when I find my ball in a fried egg.
0:07.0	Fried egg. The dreaded fried egg.
0:09.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:10.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:11.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:12.0	I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.
0:30.0	Welcome back to another edition of the Fried egg podcast.
0:39.0	Whoo! What a day, what an announcement on Tuesday.
0:44.0	This is one of the biggest stories ever in the history of golf.
0:49.0	The PGA tour, the DP World Tour, and the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund, the PIF,
0:57.0	the PIF, the PIF Fund, have announced a partnership.
1:03.0	Let's get into some of the specifics. I have brought on a couple of esteemed guests.
1:07.0	I've got Joe Ogilvy, who was gracious enough to take some time out.
1:12.0	We had him on earlier this year.
1:14.0	He was a member of the PGA Tour's policy board as a player, as well as the pack.
1:21.0	So I'm excited for his insights into, you know,
1:26.0	the deal and kind of we can get into the nitty-gritty there.
1:29.0	As well as Joseph Lamonio, we talk a lot about where we could see this thing going,
1:34.0	where we would hope it would go on the back half of this podcast.
1:39.0	So a big podcast.
1:41.0	What I wanted to do was knock out some of the nuts and bolts of this.
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