PGA Tour Latest: Rory Mcilroy speaks on PGA’s potential landmark deal with the PIF

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Whilst Scottie Scheffler has continued to show his dominance at the top of the golfing ladder at this year’s Players Championship event.  We look at the fine margins to his victory and a landmark meeting set to occur between the PGA and Saudi Arabia’s Public investment fund (PIF).

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00:00 Scottie Scheffler clawed back a five-shot overnight deficit to become the first

00:06 player in the 50-year history of the Players' Championship to successfully

00:11 defend his title. A week after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the

00:15 American comfortably cemented his status as the world's number one golfer by

00:20 carding a final round eight under par. He spoke following his historic title

00:25 offense which equated to his eighth PGA Tour title. Yeah, yeah it's good to be

00:31 sitting back here again. You know today was another battle, it was a hard-fought

00:35 week. You know a lot of guys played some really good golf this week. You

00:39 know a few of them finished at 19, I finished at 20. That's some really good

00:42 golf around this course. I'm not gonna remember the exact numbers but like

00:47 we're playing at RIV this year and I hit my t-ball and this guy yells out like

00:51 congrats on being number one Scottie. You know 11 more years to go. 11 more

00:57 years to go. Anytime you can be compared to Tiger I think is really special but I

01:02 mean the guy stands alone I think in our game. Brian Harmon was so close yet so

01:08 far at this year's event. He built on a solid start to sign for a 64, the best

01:13 score of the week at one point and put himself into contention at 15 under.

01:18 However it was not meant to be for the American at this year's Players

01:22 Championship which he views as a missed opportunity. I had my chances just

01:27 didn't cash in 400 today. You know proud of the way I fought back.

01:33 You know birdies 7, 8, 9 and birdie on 11. He's just the best player in the world.

01:38 You know and this is a championship golf course and so you know I

01:43 mean as far as if you looked at it on paper you know the best player this

01:48 week won. Yeah it's kind of what you want in a golf tournament. We

01:51 had we all had our chances and he just performed he out executed two or

01:57 three more times than the rest of us. Rory McIlroy's bid for a second Player

02:02 Championship victory received a late rally with birdies on the final three

02:07 holes for a sign of 69 to sit 9 under overall. Away from the course a landmark

02:13 meeting between the PGA Tour player directors and the governor of the Saudi

02:18 Arabian Public Investment Fund for a possible takeover deal took place this

02:22 week. McIlroy had his say on the situation hinting those in charge of

02:27 Live Golf has done a disservice to the PIF. That happened months ago so I'm glad

02:34 that it's happening and you know hopefully that progresses conversations

02:38 and gets us closer to a solution. I see the two entities and I think there's a

02:42 big actually think there's a really big disconnect between PIF and Live. I think

02:45 you've got PIF over here and Live are sort of out there sort of doing their

02:49 own thing. So the closer that we can get to Yasser, PIF and you know hopefully

02:55 finalize that investment you know I think that would be a really good thing.

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