PGA Tour, DP World Tour and PIF agreement investigated by US Senate

The US Senate has written straight to Jay Monahan, commissioner of the PGA Tour

The US Senate is investigating the planned commercialized merger betwixt the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF).

"PIF's relation arsenic an limb of the Saudi authorities and PGA Tour's abrupt and drastic reversal of presumption concerning LIV Golf raises superior questions," wrote Blumenthal.

"Prior to this agreement, PGA Tour was 1 of the loudest critics of LIV Golf's affiliation with Saudi Arabia."

The documents requested indispensable beryllium provided by 26 June.

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Blumenthal, the Democratic Party legislator for Connecticut, besides talks astir the "risks posed by a overseas authorities entity assuming power implicit a cherished American institution" and notes that the PIF is utilizing its concern successful athletics to "further the Saudi government's strategical objectives".

Last week's announcement of the merger followed a twelvemonth of disruption successful the men's crippled and was met by daze with the bulk of players.

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