Jack Nicklaus doesn’t see a reason to be concerned about the current stalemate between the PGA Tour and Saudi Public Investment Fund behind LIV Golf and thinks the issue is “in pretty good hands.”
The 18-time Major winner is hosting the latest signature event on the PGA Tour, the Memorial Tournament. He spoke to the press before the Muirfield Village event, where he touched on the apparent lack of progress in negotiations between the PGA Tour and its big-money rival.
He began by saying: “I’ve tried to stay out of what’s going on with the Tour and LIV,” before allowing himself to open up on the subject a little more. First, he revealed he’d sought reassurances from PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan that discussions were still moving on – despite the anniversary of the news talks had opened coming later in the week.
He said: “I think that’s in pretty good hands and I think that – a couple months ago I called Jay about it. I said, ‘Jay, I’m worried a little bit about what’s going on.’ I said, ‘Are you doing alright or are you not?” And he said, ‘We’re doing fine.’ I said, ‘That’s all I need to know.’ So as far as I know, the Tour’s doing fine and their problems are going to get worked out. How it is, I don’t know.”
Nicklaus revealed he had spoken to Jay Monahan about the impasse
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Nicklaus also isn’t convinced the game has to come back together at all, although he admitted it would be for the best. He said: “You can look at it two ways. One is that we’ll have a very successful tournament here and a lot of PGA Tour tournaments will have very successful tournaments and have great fields and great players.
“I think the LIV tournaments have had – you know, have some good players, and they have – and they compete at the Major championships. You know, I don’t know whether that’s imperative that that happen. I think it would be better if they all played together more often. I do think that.”
Another topic of conversation over recent months has been falling TV ratings, which players from both sides of the divide, including Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau, have highlighted as concerns.
However, recent tournaments, including McIlroy’s win at the Wells Fargo Championship, and the PGA Championship, which saw World No.1
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