In a letter to lawmakers, commissioner Jay Monahan said he pursued for the deal, in part, because he didn’t get help from them.
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan defended the decision to join forces with the Saudi-backed rival league LIV Golf in a letter to Congress, saying inaction from lawmakers left him little other choice.
Monahan did not specify what type of help he was hoping to receive from lawmakers, but some critics in Congress used their position to call for a federal probe into LIV Golf’s dealings in the U.S.to call for an investigation into whether the Saudi league had potentially violated the law by failing to register as a foreign agent of the Kingdom.
“Let me be clear that despite numerous reports, this arrangement is not a merger between the PGA TOUR, LIV Golf, and the PIF,” Monahan wrote. Last week’s announcement by LIV and the PGA Tour sent shockwaves through Washington, where a small army of lobbying shops and PR entities had been fighting for months over claims that LIV was a Saudi attempt to “sportswash” its poor human rights record on one side, and that the PGA Tour was a monopolistic enterprise on the other.
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