Even before the inevitable questions about the state of his putting, world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler was asked to address the latest developments in the PGA Tour-PIF deal following the Tour’s testimony at a Senate Subcommittee hearing Tuesday.
“It always surprises me,” Scheffler said on Wednesday in North Berwick, Scotland ahead of the Genesis Scottish Open of the line of questioning at his press conferences. “Sometimes I feel like we’re going to get asked a lot of LIV Golf questions and they never come, but this time these questions came a little earlier.”
Asked for his reaction to watching Tour executive Ron Price and Policy Board Director Jimmy Dunne answer questions in Washington, D.C., for three hours from several Senators led by Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal, Scheffler said, “we didn’t really learn a whole lot, again. As a player on Tour, we still don’t really have a lot of clarity as to what’s going on and that’s a bit worrisome. They keep saying it’s a player-run organization, and we don’t really have the information that we need. I watched part of yesterday and didn’t learn anything. So I really don’t know what to say.”
Scheffler reiterated the company line while also expressing his dismay at how the announcement of the deal was rolled out. “It’s just a framework agreement right now so I don’t know what that entails,” he said. “We are not involved in any of the discussions. None of the players were involved in the original framework greet, and so we just don’t really.”
Scottie Scheffler hits out of a bunker on the 16th green during a practice round of the U.S. Open golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: Kiyoshi Mio-USA TODAY Sports
Asked if he should have been involved, Scheffler said, “Probably not. But I’m sure that a few of our players’ members should probably have been involved.”
“I just try to keep my head down and play golf,” he added. “I don’t get too involved in a lot of that stuff. I love playing golf on the PGA Tour and that’s the spot for me. I’m hoping that’s going to exist for a long time. I felt like we were doing a good job before and then the agreement happened and now we have to navigate the whole deal.
“I think the Tour is working hard to try to get us more information but like I said, it’s tough when you’re in negotiations to make everything public. It’s hard to negotiate the public side. I understand the privacy of it but I just wish that definitely…
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