Jordan Spieth contradicts Rory McIlroy’s claim PGA Tour-Saudi talks are crumbling: ‘Things are actually moving positively from both sides’

Jordan Spieth has a seat within the room the place the selections on the PGA Tour-Saudi PIF merger are made, and he is chosen to contradict the claims of the person that was shut out of that room weeks in the past.

Within the aftermath of Jimmy Dunne departing the PGA Tour coverage board throughout final week’s PGA Championship, Rory McIlroy acknowledged that his confidence was at an all time ‘low’ for a deal between the 2 sides to be executed.

However Spieth – who sits on that tour coverage board with Tiger Woods, Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott, Peter Malnati, and Webb Simpson – had an alternate take when talking to reporters at this week’s Charles Schwab Problem.

‘I believe the narrative that issues are in a nasty place and are shifting slowly and, you recognize, a few of the issues which can be requested to me or stated are unfaithful,’ Spieth stated on Wednesday. 

‘I believe that I — I do know that it is false, really. Issues are literally shifting positively from either side. 

McIlroy stated he had ‘low’ confidence in a deal after Jimmy Dunne (above) left the coverage board

‘I believe finally we’ll find yourself in a spot the place skilled golf is perhaps the very best that it is ever been. I believe either side imagine that. 

‘I believe though there’s at all times frustrations I believe in deal making — and I am not part of the deal making. 

‘From what I do know, it is cordial, there’s open dialog, and it is shifting alongside on the tempo that it is shifting alongside. And the rest that is stated about it’s simply, I simply know to be false. 

‘So I am very optimistic I believe is what I might say out of all of it. I believe that is beginning to resonate amongst gamers as they’re capable of get increasingly more data on the matter and it’ll proceed to get increasingly more data over the approaching months.’

Dunne was one of many prime architects that received the PGA Tour and the Saudi Public Funding Fund to the desk to comply with type out a deal final June.

However in his resignation letter from the board, Dunne claimed his place was ‘completely superfluous’ after he was reportedly frozen out of talks. 

In line with the New York Instances, the potential for a deal remains to be ‘very a lot alive’.