after Monahan previously referenced the terror attacks when criticising players for leaving the PGA Tour for LIV.<\/span><\/p>\n“Any time I’ve said anything I’ve said it with the information I had at that moment, and I said it based on someone that’s trying to compete for the PGA Tour and our players,” said Monahan.<\/span><\/p>\n“I accept those criticisms but circumstances do change and I think looking at the big picture got us to this point.<\/span><\/p>\n“It probably didn’t seem this way to them but as I looked to those players that have been loyal to the PGA Tour, I’m confident they made the right decision.<\/span><\/p>\n“They have helped re-architect the future of the PGA Tour, they have moved us to a more competitive model. We have significantly invested in our business in 2023 and we’re going to do so in 2024.”<\/span><\/p>\nLIV players lost their places on DP World Tour and PGA Tour, were fined for taking part and also saw their world rankings plummet as LIV events were not officially sanctioned.<\/span><\/p>\n‘Financial and moral issues’<\/h3>\n European players who resigned from the DP World Tour are also not currently eligible for the 2023 Ryder Cup, with Henrik Stenson, removed as captain for this year’s event, which takes place in Rome from 29 September to 1 October.<\/span><\/p>\nStalwarts such as Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter are among the ineligible players but Padraig Harrington, who captained Europe in their defeat by the United States at Whistling Straits in 2021, told BBC Radio 5 live that he thinks the “rules will be changed” although he was unsure if that would be in time for this year’s contest.<\/span><\/p>\n“I’m sure a mass of lawyers will be going over the details,” added the Irishman, who also pointed out there are many financial and moral issues to resolve.<\/span><\/p>\n“The top six players who didn’t go were offered $2.1bn (\u00a31.7bn) between them to go. That payment can’t be equalised. Someone can’t come along and go here’s the $2.1bn. <\/span><\/p>\n“What looks like will happen is the PIF will put enough money into the new entity that the players as a pool will get a share.<\/span><\/p>\n“All the players will gain financially but they’re not going to gain like they would’ve done had they jumped ship.”There were costs to jumping too. The guys who left lost sponsors, as much as they got upfront money, they lost other things.”There is a financial situation to this but it’s more the moral side.<\/span><\/p>\n“If you’d taken a stance and said you weren’t going, how do you feel? I’m assuming that you don’t have to [play]. It’s not like you have to do anything in golf. I think players will still be able to speak out.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/span>Brooks Koepka, who the PGA Championship last month, is one of the high-profile golfers to have accepted LIV’s offer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMonahan said all golfers who joined LIV will be able to reapply for PGA Tour membership in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\nHe also said that conversations about compensation may take place with golfers who stayed loyal to the PGA Tour, such as Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.<\/span><\/p>\nFifteen-time major winner Woods and four-time major champion McIlroy turned down lucrative offers to join LIV last year.<\/span><\/p>\n“Those are the serious conversations that we’re going to have,” said Monahan.<\/span><\/p>\n“Ultimately everything needs to be considered. Ultimately what you’re talking about is an equalisation over time and I think that’s a fair and reasonable concept.”<\/span><\/p>\nHigh-profile players who accepted lucrative offers to join LIV, such as Brooks Koepka and Phil Mickelson, were supportive of the merger with Mickelson saying it was an “awesome day”.<\/span><\/p>\nFormer US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau, told CNN it was “the best thing that could ever happen for the game of golf” adding: “We are better together and not apart.”<\/span><\/p>\nBut ex-PGA Tour player Brandel Chamblee, who is now a television analyst, has been critical, describing the announcement as “one of the saddest days in the history of professional golf”.<\/span><\/p>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PGA Tour, LIV Golf & DP World Tour merger: Jay Monahan on “heated” talk with players PGA Tour chief Jay Monahan has faced calls to resign at an “intense and heated” players meeting following the shock merger with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF). 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