Pebble Beach, California – Rory Mcilroy hopes that the agreement between PGA Tour and the Saudi Public Investment Fund “should and will be done”.
He decided that repairing other fractures in the game could take longer.
Mcilroy he said two months agoAfter the presidential election in the USA, the return of Donald Trump to the White House should help “explain” the agreement between the two fighting parties in terms of approval by the Department of Justice. Trump is an avid golfer, said Mcilroy and would probably enjoy the possibility of saying that he helped to cure this sport, being more transactions friendly.
Indeed, now that Trump returned to Washington, Mcilroy said that the state “does not seem such a big obstacle anymore.”
“I think that from the point of view of the investment this contract should and will be done,” said Mcilroy on Tuesday at Pebble Beach, where he debuts on the road.
This can even happen “soon”, he said before he warned, “But I said it for the last two years.”
This agreement is complicated due to regulatory approval, but it may be even more difficult to heal a broken golf landscape with so many players, management, shareholders and partners involved in the process, all with different points of view and priority.
“The biggest obstacle is perhaps different visions of what Golf should look in the future,” said Mcilroy.
And there is no immediate solution for this.
