{"id":437650,"date":"2023-06-11T09:10:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T13:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437650"},"modified":"2023-06-11T09:10:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T13:10:41","slug":"pga-tour-couldnt-afford-to-fight-saudis-money","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pga-tour-couldnt-afford-to-fight-saudis-money\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour couldn&#8217;t afford to fight Saudi&#8217;s money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner Jay Monahan spoke to his employees and shared with them that PGA Tour would end up losing in the legal fight against the Saudi Arabian Fund as they waste millions of dollars, and that would force golfers to leave the organization and join LIV Golf.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan was supposed to speak on a panel at his alma mater\u2014Trinity College in Hartford, CT\u2014entitled: \u2018Committing to the Future: The Role of Sports in Modern Society,\u2019 at 1:30 pm\u2014per a source, attendees found out at 1:15 pm he was a no show\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jennifer X. Williams (@JenXperience) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenXperience\/status\/1667584493027246082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The chief claimed that the fight couldn&#8217;t be won because the financial assets of their rival were unlimited.<\/p>\n<p>PGA Tour decided to merge with the PIF and DP World Tour a few days ago, and we already know the key factor for this to happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot compete with a foreign country with unlimited cash,&#8221; Monahan spoke in front of the PGA employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner Jay Monahan spoke to his employees and shared with them that PGA Tour would end up losing in the legal fight against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":437651,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18544,16988],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[19794,18616,7308],"acf":{"announce":"PGA Tour chief shared that the fight would be too pricey.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437650"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437650"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}