Among all the questions about the partnership between the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, the money behind the LIV tour, there is one question that many people haven’t considered.
What if the deal falls through?
Not because many PGA Tour players are somewhere between concerned and furious with the new structure proposed by the three entities. Some players are stunned by the PGA Tour’s hypocrisy in the matter, but that won’t stop the deal.
But what if the United States government, with the Department of Justice and the U.S. Senate permanent committee on investigations, believes that the deal is illegal at worst and just plain rotten at best? It’s possible, you know, as both the DOJ and the Senate have launched investigations into the six-page framework agreement that was somehow leaked to The Athletic only days after it was handed over to the government.
The next step couldn’t possibly be to just go back to April when none of this deal had been agreed to or discussed in public. So what would happen?
Here are a few guesses: