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PGA Tour board member Jimmy Dunne vowed during a Senate hearing with the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Tuesday that the circuit’s leadership would meet with 9/11 victims’ families in response to the tour’s partnership with the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), LIV Golf’s financial backers.
Dunne testified before the committee alongside Ron Price, the PGA Tour's chief operating officer, fielding several questions about last month’s announcement of a landmark partnership between the rival golf entities.
Ron Price, chief operating officer of the PGA Tour, left, and Jimmy Dunne, a PGA Tour board member, are sworn in during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Dunne and Price maintained that the announcement was a framework agreement and not a merger, noting that the only finalized detail was the end of all pending litigation between the Tour, LIV Golf and the DP World Tour.
"We pursued a peace that would not only end the divisive litigation battles but would also maintain the PGA Tour structure, mission and long-standing support for charity," Price said. "While negotiations toward a definitive agreement are currently underway, the framework agreement contains important safeguards that ensures the tour will operate fundamentally as it does today.
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"The tour will control its operations. The tour will control the board of the new PGA Tour subsidiary, and the tour
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