{"id":31956,"date":"2022-06-01T12:06:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/extremely-disappointed-sponsor-hints-they-are-done-with-dustin-johnson\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T12:06:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:06:53","slug":"extremely-disappointed-sponsor-hints-they-are-done-with-dustin-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/extremely-disappointed-sponsor-hints-they-are-done-with-dustin-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Extremely disappointed&#8217; sponsor hints they are done with Dustin Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The fallout from Dustin Johnson&#8217;s decision to defect to the Saudi-backed LIV Tour on Tuesday night started swiftly.<\/p>\n<p>RBC (Royal Bank of Canada), one of Johnson&#8217;s more notable sponsors, released a statement that hinted they were cutting ties with the 2020 Masters champ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;RBC is a proud partner of the PGA Tour. Our partnership is anchored with two world-class golf tournaments \u2014 the RBC Heritage and the RBC Canadian Open,&#8221; the statement read.  &#8220;The PGA Tour has been clear about its intentions in accordance with its tournament regulations should a golfer choose to play in a tournament outside the tour, including the LIV Golf Invitational Series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were recently made aware that Dustin Johnson made the decision to play the LIV Golf Invitational Series opener.  DJ has been a valued RBC team member since 2018. While we are extremely disappointed in his decision of him, we wish him well. &#8220;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Dustin Johnson sports the RBC logo at the PGA Championship<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dj2.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dustin Johnson hits a shot at the Masters on April 10, 2022\" class=\"wp-image-22484801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dj2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dj2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dj2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Dustin Johnson hits a shot at the Masters on April 10, 2022<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The PGA Tour has threatened players with potential suspensions or even banishment as punishments for playing in the LIV events.  Johnson&#8217;s decision will put those threats to the test, given his lofty status of him in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson&#8217;s name will headline the LIV Golf Invitational, the debut event for the PGA Tour&#8217;s new rival.  It will be held at the Centurion Club in London from June 9-11.  Louis Oosthuizen and Sergio Garcia were among the other big names listed for the 42-player field, which did not include Phil Mickelson, though the event<strong> <\/strong>is expected to add six more players.<\/p>\n<p>Mickelson has been ostracized since he made comments threatening to use the Saudi-backed tour as leverage against the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dj.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dustin Johnson (left) and Greg Norman in 2011\" class=\"wp-image-22484802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dj.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dj.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dj.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dj.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Dustin Johnson (left) and Greg Norman in 2011<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Johnson&#8217;s name, however, is by far the biggest and most shocking get by Greg Norman &#8211; the Australian golfing legend who has become the face of the LIV Tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDustin&#8217;s been contemplating this for the past two years &#038; decided it was in his &#038; his family&#8217;s best interest to pursue it.  He&#8217;s never had any issue w \/ PGA TOUR &#038; lui is grateful for all it&#8217;s given him but in the end felt this was too compelling to pass up, \u201dJohnson&#8217;s agent, David Winkle, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fallout from Dustin Johnson&#8217;s decision to defect to the Saudi-backed LIV Tour on Tuesday night started swiftly. RBC (Royal Bank of Canada), one of Johnson&#8217;s more notable sponsors, released a statement that hinted they were cutting ties with the 2020 Masters champ. &#8220;RBC is a proud partner of the PGA Tour. Our partnership is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/extremely-disappointed-sponsor-hints-they-are-done-with-dustin-johnson\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Extremely disappointed&#8217; sponsor hints they are done with Dustin Johnson<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[15466,2966,3452,8138,295],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dj4.jpg?ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dj4.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}