Lucas Glover Calls Out The PGA Tour Policy Board In Epic Fashion

You can add Lucas Glover to the long list of PGA Tour players who are completely fed up with everything taking place behind the scenes in professional golf at the moment. 

The latest development in the negotiations that seem like they may never end between the PGA Tour and Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) involved Jimmy Dunne, the architect of the framework agreement, resigning from the Tour's policy board earlier this week.

In his resignation letter, Dunne explained that he hasn't been a part of the process since June of last year and, therefore, he felt like his role on the board didn't have any meaning.

Rory McIlroy, a good friend of Dunne's, explained that his resignation was a "huge loss" for the Tour as it continues to come to an agreement with the Saudis to invest in PGA Tour Enterprises.

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Glover not only agrees with McIlroy's sentiment but thinks the entire situation doesn't make any sense with Tour players outnumbering businessmen on the board.

"We (golfers) have no business having the majority (on the board)," Glover said on his Sirius XM Radio show. "Tour players play golf. Businessmen run business. They don’t tell us how to hit 7-irons. We shouldn’t be telling them how to run a business."

"We’re about to launch a huge, huge, huge enterprise and a for-profit company that all the players are going to own a part of, and we don’t have the smartest possible people there to help us guide us in the right direction. That’s scary."

Glover has been vocal with his criticisms about the situation in the past as well.

"The board situation and the way they’re going to reach these decisions now is backwards. It’s 100% backwards," Glover said last August. "A lot of my peers and a lot of other tour players aren’t going to be agree with me but the proof’s in the pudding. We had an opportunity to get this done and it didn’t get done."

It may be a simple way to look at it, but that doesn't mean Glover is wrong.

While the PGA Tour has touted itself as a ‘player-run organization,' having Tour players have an extra seat at the negotiating table is a questionable tactic. Perhaps what is even more head-scratching is the Tour wanting that to be the case, with the businessmen not having as loud a voice at the table.