Conversations about the PGA Tour’s $3 billion merger with LIV Golf and DP World Tour continue. Ahead of this week’s Open Championship, a PGA Tour pro remarked on a ‘minority’ opinion in a conversation with Todd Lewis.

The news was a shock for many, leading the golf world into a frenzy. Many players learned about it through Twitter. And, with more than a month into the $3 Billion deal, the players are still absent regarding the functioning of the merger. 

Billy Horschel feels his opinion is ‘minority’

7 times PGA Tour winner Billy Horschel, acknowledges the dual nature of PGA Tour as both a player-focused organization and a business running golfing events. But in a talk with Todd Lewis, he also stressed upon the importance of involvement of players in certain decisions. 

“I’m in the minority, probably on this — I don’t think they always have to be transparent with us because I just don’t see the benefit always of being transparent, telling us everything.” Horschel told Lewis.

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“Do they come to us and discuss a sponsor of a PGA Tour event that they’re trying to get; if everyone’s happy with that sponsor; is the agreement that they made with that sponsor, is everyone happy with?”

The seven-time PGA Tour winner admits to not being a business person. But he objects on the reputation of the organization as a member-input space, and demanded the need for transparency in decisions such as the merger itself. 

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Billy Horschel also brought chairman Jay Monahan into focus. He conveyed that the scale at which PGA Tour works is the reason executives exist. Monahan recently turned the light green for negotiating an agreement with LIV Golf, thereby dropping its legal cases against the Saudi funded league.

Other who’ve resisted the merger in the past

PGA Tour policy board member Randall Stephenson, filed for his resignation as a response to the merger between PGA Tour, DP World Tour, and PIF. After serving the organization for more than a decade, Stephenson called it quits, bringing to light the PGA Tour’s governance model. 

Scottie Scheffler also expressed irritation, referring to the lack of clarity in the framework to create a for-profit entity.

The players are currently confused about their future in the leagues. It would be interesting to see how the new merger unfolds. The suspension of PGA Tour players like Phil Mickelson or Dustin Johnson for joining LIV earlier, raises the question of what will the merger hold for them?

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