Robert Craddock

And his captain, Harry Grant, when a reporter said, Craig, are you certain they're buying in for you?

And he said, fair question.

I have to concede.

And then Harry Grant jumped in and said, no, no, no, no, that's not a fair question.

We buy in.

Well, hang on, boys.

If you're going to buy in, well, buy in.

plus Robert Craddock on the future of live golf.

The single tweet from a part-time golf writer saying lives in serious strife, they're having big meetings this afternoon, and he was spot on.

And look, it looks gone, Gerard, at the end of this season.

I mean, Scott O'Neill, their chief executive, spoke to reporters at the Masters at Augusta only a week ago under a tree near the 18th and said, we've got funding until 2032.

Four days later, he was saying, we've got funding through to the end of 2026.

So no promises it's going to go on.

So it looks as if the Saudi Arabia Investment Fund has decided it will cancel all vanity projects.

They're not going to get – it did open a few doors for them, but it closed many more.

They're not going to seize control of World Golf.

As Ian Baker-Finch says, and he's a very wise man, there will be no merger with the PGA Tour.

So I can't say categorically it's finished, but it looks on life support, live on life support.

Well, it was.

And here's the thing.