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PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger: 9/11 families tear into 'hypocrisy and greed' of commissioner Jay Monahan

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The announcement of the PGA Tour's merger with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf (and DP World Tour) was bound to trigger a full spectrum of emotions across the golf world.

On the happiest side were probably the newly legitimized people behind LIV Golf and their players, who will have their cake and eat it too by playing PGA Tour events again while receiving LIV money. Below them would have been the PGA Tour officials who compromised pretty much every statement they made in the last three years.

On the sadder side, the players who stood up for said tour and were rewarded with nothing, and are now reportedly furious.