Instead of going to work, Dunne was trying to qualify for the U.S. 11 were Saudi citizens, and the Saudi kingdom was the birthplace of Osama bin Laden, the head of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the attack.ĭunne would have been in the south tower that day if he hadn't been on the back nine of his Wall Street career. All but four of the 19 hijackers on Sept. Open, the fractured sport seems closer than ever to reuniting.ĭunne, an independent director on the PGA Tour's policy board, was one of the founders of Sandler O'Neill and Partners, an investment banking firm that lost 40% of its employees when hijackers crashed a plane into the south tower of the World Trade Center in the Sept. As the game's best players gather this week at Los Angeles Country Club for the 123rd U.S. Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, with about $620 billion in assets, is financing the rival LIV Golf League, which has traded blows with the PGA Tour during a bitter two-year battle to topple each other for supremacy in the sport. The fact the sender was James Dunne III, a Wall Street dealmaker, makes the alliance even more improbable. THE MOST UNLIKELY union in professional golf history - the PGA Tour's stunning partnership last week with the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund - started with a WhatsApp message. How the shocking PGA Tour-LIV Golf deal went down You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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