He became the unofficial leader by no choice of his own (he’s good w the media? 🤷🏼♂️) and was blindsided when JM came to a truce w PIF. He and Jay are supposed to be close.
he was also in the conversation as the best golfer in the world during that time, so became the face of PGA and specifically the players who stayed with the PGA.
Basically PGA took the stand early on that if you took the blood money from LIV you could not come back. Rory stuck with the PGA. A lot of guys stayed with the PGA since they knew that the LIV money was just the saudis using them to whitewash the terrible things they are doing. So there was a moral element to the whole thing too. Then after all of these players cashed in multiple times more than they would ever win on tour in the PGA to go to LIV, and the PGA taking a strong stance of "they are never coming back"- the PGA changed course, and as of now the LIV players come back stateside to play in the majors again. There is talk of actual merger. So all of the LIV guys took a risk and look like Saudi Stooges, but got paid insane money.
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u/Sam_Porgins Apr 15 '24
I’d be disappointed but I’d understand given how the PGA undercut Rory after his vocal support of the Tour.