LIV Golf has responded to the PGA Tour announcing a shake-up of its current schedule and significantly increasing its prize money, saying: You’ve confirmed that our format is better.
Speaking at TPC River Highlands ahead of this week’s Travelers Championship, PGA Tour commissioner 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.
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They include the flagship PLAYERS Championship, which goes from $20m to $25m, whilst the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Genesis Invitational, WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play and Memorial Tournament will all jump from $12m to $20m.
Now, LIV Golf has responded.
A LIV Golf spokesperson told bunkered.co.uk: “The [PGA] Tour today has made the…
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