Paul McGinley: PGA Tour players will feel like the losers out of golf merger

The Dubliner believes there is no guarantee the deal will go ahead as planned.

BOGEY DEAL: Paul McGinley feels PGA Tour boss Jay Monahan faces a “real problem” to win over players unhappy with the deal with LIV Golf. Picture: Clodagh Kilcoyne/PA

Paul McGinley believes commissioner Jay Monahan faces a “real problem” to persuade PGA Tour loyalists they are not the losers in golf’s peace deal.

Players reacted with shock and a sense of betrayal at the proposed merger of the PGA Tour and DP World Tour’s commercial operations with those of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which bankrolls LIV Golf.