AUGUSTA, Ga. – Golf executives weary of negotiating with the unyielding Yasir Al-Rumayyan can draw comfort from his appearance Friday at the Masters, if only because the head of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund came to the iconic meeting place beneath the oak tree at Augusta National’s clubhouse rather than insist the tree be brought to him. His presence meant that LIV had as many executives on site as players near the top of the leaderboard, its new CEO Scott O’Neil having spent a couple of days in the company of the usual habitueu0301s of the trough.
It was all enough to inspire one wag to repurpose Verne Lundquist’s legendary call: “Yas .