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It was during a lunch following the golf writers’ annual match with the Golf Foundation that a journalist’s phone pinged as someone was telling another tale about some golfer or other. Then the phoneman told us he had just had a message that the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour and the Saudis were coming together as commercial partners.
Unexpected doesn’t cover the reaction. Who knew? Almost no-one is the answer, apart from