Our Golf Reporter Didn't See the PGA Tour-LIV Golf Deal Coming, Either
Briefly

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Alan Blinder's plans blew up around 10 a.m. last Tuesday.Mr. Blinder, who covers golf for The New York Times, had just settled in at his home office when he received a heads-up from a source with some gobsmacking news: The PGA Tour and LIV Golf, the insurgent league bankrolled by billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, had agreed to a partnership, suspending a bitter and costly struggle for supremacy of men's professional golf.
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