Unprepared sponsors express mixed feelings on world golf commercial merger

Jay Monahan, 
Commissioner of the PGA Tour. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)
Jay Monahan, Commissioner of the PGA Tour. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

DP World, title sponsor of the European Tour group's flagship DP World Tour, was one of several golf sponsors given scant or non-existent notice of this week’s shock announcement of the commercial merger between the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour and the Saudi-owned LIV Golf breakaway competition.

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