Someone give Rory McIlroy a hug. After what PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan just pulled, he needs it.
And while you’re at it, go ahead and show PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan the door.As it turns out, all those principles Monahan espoused over the last 12 months were nothing more than negotiating tactics.
The leader of the PGA Tour is just fine with taking a few bags of cash from a despotic regime — and making those who want to compete in his tour do the same — so long as it’s done on his terms. That’s exactly what Monahan and Tour leadership agreed to when they struck a deal with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund earlier this week. That Monahan did so without even bothering to get the OK from the golfers who stood by his tour at the expense of their own bank accounts made it all the more abhorrent.
Somehow, that even included McIlroy, the most vocal backer of the PGA Tour in the face of LIV Golf’s raid on its ranks. There’s little doubt McIlroy could have signed a nine-figure deal with LIV similar to those given to high-profile golfers like
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