Jimmy Dunne is one of the key architects behind the PGA Tour's stunning deal with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf. Now he wants off the PGA Tour board.

In a memo sent to players late Tuesday, Tour commissioner Jay Monahan countered Dunne’s claim of stalled negotiations, writing, “With an active, focused and engaged ‘transaction subcommittee,’ we continue to make meaningful progress behind the scenes in our negotiations toward a potential agreement with the PIF.”

The man who set up the deal between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund -- the financial backers of LIV Golf -- will not be around to potentially see it through. Jimmy Dunne on Monday resigned from his post on the PGA Tour policy board stating that the no longer sees how he can be useful to the body.

Jimmy Dunne, the Wall Street deal maker who helped architect the PGA Tour’s controversial deal with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund last summer resigned from the Tour’s Policy Board on Monday.

Dunne said unification is no closer one year after Jay Monahan deputized him and Ed Herlihy to negotiate with PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayy

Jimmy Dunne has stepped down from the PGA Tour's policy board, effective immediately on Monday. The investment banker, a key figure in crafting the tour's agreement with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF),

Rory McIlroy says the PGA Tour is worse off with Jimmy Dunne no longer on the board. Dunne was one of the key architects in the June 6 framework agreement with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf.

The power broken wrote he felt superfluous “since the players now outnumber the independent directors on the board, and no meaningful progress has been made towards a transaction" with the Saudi owners of LIV Golf.

Jimmy Dunne, one of the authors of the framework agreement between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), stepped down from the tour’s policy board on Monday, effective immediately.

Less than a week after independent director Jimmy Dunne resigned, effectively immediately, and hours after the PGA Championship was decided, Mark Flaherty, another independent director, resigned from the PGA Tour's policy board Sunday night.