There are many questions still to be answered about what the PGA Tour’s stunning merger with Saudi-backed LIV Golf will mean, and perhaps most prominent among them is how PGA loyalists like Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm must be feeling after leaving hundreds of millions of dollars on the table.
The LIV deals were eye-popping when they came out — $300 million for Phil Mickelson, plus $150-odd million apiece for Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau and Australia’s Cameron Smith.
Meanwhile, Woods, McIlroy, Rahm, Scottie Scheffler and others took what were trumpeted as principled stands, leaving hundreds of millions of dollars on the table, only for PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan to turn around and merge forces with LIV in the end.
LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman said last year that Woods turned down an offer in the range of $1-1.2 billion to stick with the PGA…
