Over 300 pages of documents released Tuesday by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations shortly before the start of a hearing with PGA Tour representatives reveal not only how the PGA Tour’s framework agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund came to fruition but perhaps some insight into what the two parties have planned.
The documents that were turned over to the Senate and reviewed by GolfChannel.com range from email and messaging correspondence between the Tour and PIF; several iterations and edits of the framework agreement; timing, communications approach, net impact statements and Q&A prep regarding the announcement of the framework deal; and, perhaps most revealing, several PIF proposals to potentially be included in the finalized agreement, including the removal of LIV CEO Greg Norman, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy becoming owners of LIV teams and playing LIV events, and PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan receiving a membership to Augusta National Golf Club.