Former Golfer PGA Brandel Chamblee, now an analyst, was a frank critic from Liv Golf.
Chamblee said once the League supported by Saoudie had been “financed by a murderous regime” and said that the “gourmet” players who joined the tour “helped a dictorial murderer to bleach her reputation”.
In June 2023, the two professional golf tours shocked the world when it was announced that they would work together to improve the game.
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Brandel Chamblee on the set of the golf channel on the second day of play at the Presidents Cup on October 4, 2013 in Dublin, Ohio. (Scott Halleran / Getty Images)
Discussions are still underway, but the PGA commissioner Jayu Monahan recently said that the tour “had asked” President Donald Trump “to get involved for the good of the game, the good of the country and for all countries involved “.
Liv played several courses belonging to Trump.
“We are grateful that his management has brought us closer to a final agreement, opening the way to the reunification of professional male golf,” said Monahan in a statement this week.
Chamblee said he had the chance to play golf with Trump last year, and both discussed Liv and how it could be beneficial for golf.
“He was so magnanimous about our differences. At one point, he said:” Listen, I know you and I have a difference in this opinion, but listen to me. “He said: ‘[LIV Golf chairman] Yasir [Al-Rumayyan] Like golf more than you and more than me. Now it’s hard to believe because President Trump plays a lot of golf course, and I’m crazy. But he was serious, “said Chamblee during the waste management open on Friday.
Yasir al-Rumayyan during the Pro-Am before the Liv Golf Invitational-Chicago in Rich Harvest Farms on September 15, 2022, in Sugar Grove, ill. (Jonathan Ferrey / Liv Golf via Getty Images)
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“They have 32 billions of dollars of oil under this sand, and they must really diversify their economy. He said they were all on this, and they are not going out. As the turn progressed , he would like to speak almost all hole on Liv, on Saudi involvement and how excited he was for that. “
Chamblee said he had since grown up to “understand why we nodel and need Saudi Arabia as a partner in the Middle East”, adding that his own “problems concerned the concerns of human rights and the how the golf course would have to apologize at some point for a problem.
Chamblee added that he did not totally agree with Trump, but the president made convincing arguments “” “[make] I think of Yasir as a partner in the golf game. “”
Donald Trump played golf before the golf series tournament at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster, NJ, August 9, 2023. (Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images)
Golf star Rory McILroy said in November that he thought Trump becoming president for the second time could help “open the way” for an agreement between the PGA and the Liv.
