Golf’s Major tournaments are among the most high profile tournaments in World sport and after a night of what appeared to be interlinked statements from some of the leading golfers in the world, it appears they will remain so.

Over recent weeks and months, speculation has become firmer that players like Bryson DeChambeau and Dustin Johnson would take their talents away from the PGA and DP World (European) Tours to sign up to a new Saudi Arabian backed tour that would host its own tournaments with enormous prize funds and high levels of publicity.

Led by Greg Norman who has since 1994 put forward the idea of a breakaway tour, there were reports of signing on offer of $30 million dollars to players like Ian Poulter and a massive €200 million to DeChambeau.

Everything was swirling without any confirmations though until last night when first Johnson through the PGA Tour and then DeChambeau via his own social channel, affirmed their commitment to remain with the established order.

With Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Tiger Woods, Justin Thomas and many more also rejecting the idea of a breakaway league it now appears to be dead in the water.

The best players will only ever prove themselves by playing against their peers and in pretty much every sport there is little room for competing tournaments.

The PGA Tour announcement that any players competing in a rival tour would not be permitted to compete in their own Majors or represent the USA or Europe in the Ryder Cup was probably enough to make up most minds and it seems as though the Status Quo will remain.

The Saudi backers of the tour will now likely regroup with looking to reach an agreement with the Tours, like with the Suadi Invitational that took place under the control of the DP World Tour.

The Saudi Grand Prix provided a stop along the way to the dramatic conclusion to last year’s F1 season and the country will welcome that sport back again in 2022.

Money is no object and the power of influence and spotlight that elite sport brings is clearly something that appeals to the leadership in countries around the world that are under pressure in other areas.

Russia and China are perennial hosts of major sporting events and the enormous cost of staging the biggest events means that is not going anywhere soon.