The PGA Tour and LIV Golf have been at each other’s throats in public for years. But in recent weeks, leaders of the rival golf circuits had been hard at work in secret on a detente.
Yasir Al Rumayyan, the golf-crazy chairman of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund that is LIV’s biggest backer, jetted around the world for several rounds of discussions with top officials from the PGA Tour about a possible combination, according to people familiar with the matter. On Tuesday, his efforts paid off: The PGA Tour and LIV announced that they would merge, ending their pitched ...
