Most of the PGA Tour’s elite turned on Jay Monahan after the league commissioner blindsided gamers by agreeing to a secret merger with LIV Golf and the DP World Tour final summer time. Not even Rory McIlroy, the spokesperson for the PGA Tour and fundamental condemner of LIV, knew in regards to the deal earlier than the official announcement in June.
9 months later, PGA Tour stars nonetheless have bother trusting Monahan.
“Belief is one thing that’s fairly tender, so phrases are phrases, and I’d say in my e book [Monahan’s] bought an extended solution to go,” World No. 6 Xander Schauffele stated this week forward of the Gamers Championship, per Golf.com. “He may very well be the man, however in my e book, he’s bought an extended solution to go to achieve the belief of the membership.”
This is not the primary time Schauffele has spoken out towards Monahan, and he wasn’t the one participant at TPC Sawgrass to bash the conniving commissioner. World No. 4 Viktor Hovland was blunter along with his evaluation.
“There have been some issues that had been stated which were walked again on after which issues have been very contradictory,” Hovland informed reporters this week, per Sports Illustrated. “As a frontrunner of a corporation, I’ll need an individual like that to take some possession and say, hey, we made a few errors, however that is how we’re going to rectify it, as an alternative of form of sweeping it underneath the rug, which I felt like has been achieved to a sure diploma.
“I don’t thoughts individuals making errors. All of us make errors. However I feel while you make a mistake you bought to come clean with it and say, ‘Hey, we’re making an attempt to do higher right here, and that is how we’re going to do it.'”
These feedback got here shortly after Monahan took the rostrum within the TPC Sawgrass media room and stated an entire lot of nothing in his 57 minutes behind the microphone. Cliche affirmations corresponding to “I’ve gotten stronger as a frontrunner” and “We’re simply making an attempt to get higher each single day” spilled out of his mouth just like the Saudi billions spilling into golfers’ pockets.
It has been virtually a 12 months, and Monahan nonetheless hasn’t gained again the PGA Tour brass he betrayed final summer time. His time as PGA Tour commissioner should be ticking.