Chamblee pauses Mickelson feud to go after LIV boss: "Why is he on the board?!'
The analyst has now put the LIV mastermind in his cross hairs.
Brandel Chamblee has had plenty to say in recent weeks and was left red-faced when the PGA Tour announced they were going to do business with the very same group of people the analyst has been blasting even before the very first LIV Golf event.
The Golf Channel and NBC analyst has posted a 407-word response with his questions about the proposal to align the commercial interests of the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia's PIF.
Chamblee, who revealed he cracked up at Brooks Koepka's 'welfare check' tweet, has six key questions about the deal:
- Why a tour that seemed to have the upper hand would merge with a tour that was beset with waning interest and seemed to be out of ideas?
- How can a majority investor in a company not have the controlling position?
- What proportion of this merger was driven by discovery and what was driven by economics?
- Did the PGA Tour really not have any other economic solutions?
- If the merger doesn’t go through because it is blocked by the Player Board or regulatory agencies, will the PGA Tour and the Saudis still find a way to be in business together and will LIV still die?
- What does Yasir Al-Rumayyan even know about golf and since the likely answer to that question is, not much, why is he ON THE BOARD?
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Read his full statement here:
It’s been a busy few days with news of the proposed PGA Tour/LIV merger and trying to both understand it and divine out if it does, in fact, mean the Saudis own professional golf.
It raises a great many questions, such as:
Why a tour that seemed to have the upper hand would…
— Brandel Chamblee (@chambleebrandel) June 10, 2023
One thing is clear about the deal: uncertainty. Some details are slowly emerging and Jimmy Dunne, who brokered the deal after reaching out to the Saudis via WhatsApp, has suggested PGA Tour boss Monahan will have more power than previously envisaged.
GolfMagic has already listed some of the questions we have about the proposal.
As for PGA Tour boss Jay Monahan, this former tour exec believes he has played a blinder despite the heat he is attracting from the deal.
"Jay took the arrows," he said. [He] took the hit, he got lambasted and was burned in effigy, but is he going to lose his job? No."
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