Is the PGA Tour’s endless merger delay a sign of incompetence or unavoidable complexity?

It has been over two years since Jay Monahan and Yasir Al-Rumayyan shook hands on television and announced a $3 billion merger between the PGA Tour and PIF. But has the deal become a reality? Not yet. To everyone’s dismay, the merger is getting delayed after delay and the only answer the people get is that it is complicated, which is not just annoying for the fans but also PGA Tour pros.

At the latest No Laying Up podcast, 32-year-old Harry Higgs showed his frustration over the delay and disclaimer alert: it is all his opinion. Higgs explained that he was out of the meeting rooms and didn’t have a clear idea but he had an opinion on the different subcommittees the PGA Tour introduced this year, like the Transactional Committee for the merger.

The Transactional Committee has Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Jay Monahan, Adam Scott, and others. Taking a jab at it, Higgs said, “It cannot be this complicated… They’ve set up that we’re into subcommittees now to try to figure this subcommittee. Yeah, this is silly.” Even Charles Barkley had called the PGA Tour and LIV Golf idiots and stupid for delaying the merger, and Higgs resonated with this sentiment.

He had also called out the PGA Tour on spammed emails saying the same thing but without any actual progress, while further adding, “Stop saying you are having a productive meeting. Clearly, you’re not. You’re having productive meetings for the better part of the two years.” But Higgs was not just all complaining, he also had one suggestion to end this fiasco.