It has taken him long enough but the commissioner of the PGA Tour has finally jumped off the sidelines and publicly gone on the attack against LIV Golf.
Addressing the media at TPC River Highlands today – venue for this week’s Travelers Championship – Jay Monahan dismissed the Saudi-funded start-up as an “irrational threat” intent on buying the game of golf and “dismantling the institutions that are intrinsically invested in its growth”.
At the same time, he unveiled plans for a new-look PGA Tour schedule that will see the FedEx Cup contested from January to August from 2024, as well as significant prize fund increases for some of the tour’s biggest events effective from 2023.
They include the flagship PLAYERS Championship, which goes from $20m to $25m. The Arnold Palmer Invitational, Genesis Invitational, WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play and Memorial Tournament will all jump from $12m to $20m.
Conspicuous by their absence from the purse increases are tournaments the PGA Tour co-sanctions with its strategic partner the DP World Tour, amongst them the Genesis Scottish Open.
In a bizarre chain of events, as Monahan was meeting the media,…
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