PROFESSIONAL Golfers Association (PGA) Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, sat beside each other during a CNBC interview wearing comfortable smiles of longtime friends. That was one of many surprises. They announced a blockbuster commercial partnership that seemed so unfathomable only a few…
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What brought them together in a roundabout way was Monahan appointing Jimmy Dunne a power broker in golf and on Wall Street with a personal connection to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to the PGA Tour board of directors last fall. It was Dunne and Ed Herlihy, chairman of the PGA Tour policy board, whom Monahan leaned on to set his first meeting with Al-Rumayyan a short time after the Masters.