LOS ANGELES : Last week's bombshell announcement that the PGA Tour will accept massive investment from Saudi Arabia will take a back seat to the drama on the course when the U.S. Open kicks off on Thursday, United States Golf Association CEO Mike Whan said. The news that the Tour would partner with Saudi-
LOS ANGELES : Last week's bombshell announcement that the PGA Tour will accept massive investment from Saudi Arabia will take a back seat to the drama on the course when the U.S. Open kicks off on Thursday, United States Golf Association CEO Mike Whan said.
"I'm not going to avoid the elephant in the room," Whan told reporters at the Los Angeles Country Club on Wednesday. "All of us got together on Wednesday and said, gosh, all these stories we wanted to tell, maybe it's going to be harder to tell because media will be focused elsewhere." "And following that there was player suspensions and we were kind of depressed thinking this great country club setting here in Boston that really deserved to be talked about wasn't going to get its due.
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