I don't judge the Asian Tour, they were in desperate financial straits. Yasir and Greg saw an opportunity and used them. The investment was badly needed and has done some good, but it was one Jon Rahm's worth to turn the AT into a playground for LIV players.
Love to see teams going out to get upgraded players and not just sitting around waiting for The League to dump someone in their laps. Great signing here 👏👏👏
Welcome to LIV @v_perez2!
And there was just no reason to do it. LIV/DPWT Malta meetings not working out didn't mean Asian Tour couldn't still work with DPWT. Did AT really need to throw down in Europe? Hell no. That was Greg or Yasir using the AT to middle finger the DPWT over the PGAT alliance.
🎯🎯🎯 Meanwhile Sunshine Tour, PGTI, KPGA, Japan, and Australasian Tour players have co-sanctioned events and defined pathways via their OoMs to the HPT, DPWT, and from there on to the majors and PGAT.
And unfortunately, by Norman positioning Asian Tour as a competitor to DPWT, instead of the partner they were, now the AT external pathway goes 2 deep to LIV, but nowhere else.
Result is now the Asians getting into the larger ecosystem of DPWT/PGAT have to do it other ways.