Connecticut Senator questions new PGA Tour-LIV Tour relationship

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Well it appears we at The Sporting Base are not the only ones that have questions for those in charge of the golf world, particularly the PGA Tour and LIV Tour. Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal, the Chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, does as well.

On Monday according to the Associated Press, Blumenthal stated he has sent out letters to PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and LIV Chief Executive Officer Greg Norman with “serious questions” about the new relationship between the two golf organizations. Blumenthal is also looking for reasons why the agreement took place, and how the PGA Tour plans to keep its tax-exempt status.

The fact that the United States government has now got involved enhances the seriousness of the partnership between the PGA and LIV. If one would have thought that the PGA Tour could go about their business without government interference, inquiries, and scrutiny, you would be mistaken.

Since Blumenthal stated he had questions, Monahan has tried to supply some answers. On Tuesday, according to the Associated Press, Monahan stated he “told congressional members the ‘PGA Tour’ was ‘left on our own’ to fend off Saudi Arabia’s bid to take over the sport with LIV Golf because of the United States’s geopolitical alliance with the Kingdom.”

So in other words, is Monahan shifting the blame to the Biden administration and the Democratic government as to why the PGA Tour felt it was necessary to have a relationship with the Saudi Arabian-owned LIV group? Would things have changed or been any different whatsoever if Donald Trump was the current president of the United States? According to the LIV Golf Nation Twitter account, “President Trump said players who didn’t take the money would regret it because there was going to be a deal in the future with the PGA Tour, and they’d be missing out on their big pay days.”

With this new relationship, will the players who changed leagues, still receive all the guaranteed money they were promised by the LIV Group for switching? How much will the American government investigate the new partnership? How according to Trump, is this “a big, beautiful, and glamorous deal” ? There continues to be more questions. This story isn’t going away anytime soon.

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