The Bottom Line, will the Merg...

This article is short and sweet as more accurate details will be forthcoming about the merger, so let’s not stir up too much controversy after all its just a business decision rooted in Money.

The PGA Tour is one of the most prestigious golf tours in the world, it is primarily based in the United States. It organizes and sanctions professional golf tournaments for both men and women. The PGA Tour has a long history and is widely recognized as the premier tour for professional golfers.

LIV Golf is the relatively new professional golf league launched by the Saudi Arabian Golf Federation in 2021. The league quickly elevated itself to the ranks of a competing tour by attracting top golfers by offering significant financial incentives. That sparked a raging legal battel.

The two-year-long fight between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf ended with a stunning announcement, the archrivals are now joining forces and formulating a super tour sort of speak.

The decision, announced Tuesday, concluded a battle for golf’s best players and prompted an about-face from the PGA Tour, which had in a previous lawsuit accused Saudi Arabia of offering athletes “astronomical sums of money.

It now ends pending litigation between the two organizations. The agreement will combine the commercial businesses and rights of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf into a new, yet-to-be-named for-profit company.

“The game of golf is better for what we’ve done today,” PGA Commissioner Jay Monahan told CNBC in an interview after the news broke.

Depending on where you lean in the political, financial, and sporting spectrum of the world there will be cheers and jeers and many accusations as well as the usual name calling, mudslinging and yes probably additional law suits, all rooted in the bottom line of the money spent and yet to be realized in the big business of professional sports.

The bottom line the deal will stick as neither side wants to compete with having to pay ridiculous signing bonusses and the escalation in tournament purses to attract competing talent for participation in two leagues. Anyway, here at SportsbookStuff.com we’ll continue to follow the developments and offer our interpretation of them in an objective way.

So, in the meantime, as for me and the usual foursome I golf with every weekend these developments will not improve our game nor make us enjoy the sport of golf any less than we do. Golf for us is a great fun day out, we get a little exercise, BS the guy sports thing, brag a little when we hit the ball well, cheat a little when we get frustrated and have a beer at the end of the day. I then go home and may or may not catch a sporting event on TV. but I think for us and others, the topic of conversation when we are out golfing this weekend might be, are we going to eventually watch more or less golf tournaments on TV because of the merger? That I don’t have an opinion on that yet. Perhaps you do so go ahead and share one.

Well until the next time I get inspired and write something to submit here at Sports Book Stuff, and of course if they choose it to publish it, I wish you all an enjoyable sporting experience whatever you watch.

Regards Georgie Zee