In the wake of the announcement that the PGA Tour was joining forces with LIV Golf’s Saudi benefactors, Jay Monahan, the tour’s commissioner, suffered from anxiety that he said prompted a five-week medical leave from his post.
, the PIF governor who stands to get a seat on the tour’s influential policy board and would chair the board of a newly-formed for-profit entity, to be called PGA Tour Enterprises.Monahan acknowledged that the announcement and initial rollout of the Saudi partnership as players gathered for the Canadian Open was “ineffective” — and “that’s on me,” he said.
“I think for people that deal with anxiety, it builds over time,” he said. “It affects everybody differently. It had been affecting me. It was particularly acute that day. I realized the position I was in; it was the right time to go take care of myself.” Scottie Scheffler, the world’s top-ranked golfer, said players weren’t aware of details surrounding Monahan’s condition and absence and noted that until Tuesday’s player meeting, he hadn’t seen Monahan since the tour commissioner took leave.
The tour has made several moves to further empower players. After 41 golfers, including virtually all of the tour’s biggest stars, sent a letter to Monahan on July 31 with a short list of demands, theto its policy board and also launched a review of the tour’s governance structure.
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