Golf fans are fed up, so are the players and it appears some of the game’s leading bodies are too.
It was June 6 last year that the PGA Tour and LIV Golf announced the creation of a new entity that would combine the assets of men’s professional golf’s warring factions, as well as those of the DP World Tour, and bring peace to the kingdom.
But roughly 16 months on, there is little progress to be shown except for symbolic gestures which suggests a treaty is on its way.
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund – who fund LIV Golf – Yasir Al-Rumayyan recently played in the same group at the DP World Tour’s famous pro-am event the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland.
They were all smiles and embraced one another with a big hug to show that all is well.