and that sovereign wealth fund was determined to control the future of our sport. >> reporter: monaghaning the new partnership side by side with the governor of the pif, yasser al ramain on cbs. >> just this picture alone is going to surprise a lot of people. >> it's a historical day for the pga tour and the game of golf. there's been a lot of tension in our sport the last couple of years. but what we're talking about today is coming together to unify the game of golf and to do so under one umbrella. >> there had been so much rhetoric between the two leagues, between the two tours, it had been so combative, so fiery, so hostile. and for the announcement to come that, you know, the pif and the pga tour are coming together after everything that had been said was purely shocking. >> reporter: a decision many never saw coming. >> jay monahan, the head of the pga tour, really let the families and 9/11 victims down, really let folks who care about the game of golf down. >> reporter: no one felt more deceived than the families of the 9/11 victims. >> we thought the pga tour shared our values,