PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan 'recuperating' from medical situation
Under-fire commissioner Jay Monahan is "recuperating from a medical situation", the PGA Tour has announced.
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Brooks Koepka targetting a 'double digit' major championship tally ahead another US Open tilt
Brooks Koepka insists he will relish the "chaos" surrounding men's professional golf as he targets moving a step closer to his goal of 10 major titles. Koepka claimed his fifth major in May's US PGA Championship at Oak Hill and, after overcoming career-threatening injuries, looked back to being the player who won his previous four in an eight-tournament stretch. Yet just as a relatively stable status quo seemed to have been established, last week's shock announcement of a deal between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund plunged it back into turmoil.
Under-fire PGA Tour chief Monahan steps back due to 'medical situation'
Under-fire PGA Tour chief Jay Monahan is stepping away from day-to-day operations of the tour as he recovers from an undisclosed medical situation, a statement said Tuesday.
PGA Tour ‘confident’ Congress will understand new venture when it ‘learns more’
The PGA Tour is confident it will be able to assure Congress it controls the shock new venture with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund after a United States Senator opened an investigation into the deal.
Not easy to deal with 'bombshell' merger – Jon Rahm
Masters champion Jon Rahm admits it has been tough to deal with the “bombshell” announcement of a peace deal between golf’s warring factions that has still left the game in a state of limbo.
Jon Rahm: PGA players don't have "all the answers we'd like"
Jon Rahm admitted there is a sense of betrayal among the PGA Tour membership in the wake of the merger with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. Rahm said he was at home making breakfast for his kids and wife Kelley on 6 June when text messages started flowing about a planned merger. "I thought my phone was going to catch on fire at one point," Rahm recalled ahead of this week's U.S. Open. "There were so many questions that I just couldn't answer. "At one point, I told Kelley I'm just going to throw my phone in the drawer and not look at it for the next four hours because I can't deal with this anymore." Rahm still doesn't have any more answers a week later.
PGA Tour confident of reassuring US Congress over LIV deal
The PGA Tour is confident it will be able to assure Congress it controls the shock new venture with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund after a United States Senator opened an investigation into the deal. The PGA announced a week ago a plan to combine its commercial business with those of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), which includes the LIV Golf series that the PGA had previously been in open dispute with.
Rory McIlroy skips US Open media duty with PIF merger still in headlines
Days after describing his press conference before the Canadian Open as the “most uncomfortable” he has felt for a year, Rory McIlroy made sure to avoid a similar situation at the US Open.