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PGA Tour, LIV Golf & DP World Tour merger: Calls for Jay Monahan to resign in ‘heated’ players meeting

PGA Tour, LIV Golf & DP World Tour merger: Calls for Jay Monahan to resign in ‘heated’ players meeting
  • PublishedJune 7, 2023
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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).

Several players left the American PGA Tour and European-based DP World Tour to join the $2bn (£1.6bn) Saudi-backed LIV circuit when it launched last year.

Monahan said those who joined LIV would not be welcome back on the PGA Tour.

“I recognise that people are going to call me a hypocrite,” Monahan said.

Northern Ireland’s world number three Rory McIlroy, who has been a firm defender of the PGA Tour, is set to speak to the media at around 15:00 BST on Wednesday.

McIlroy is the defending champion at this week’s PGA Tour event at the RBC Canadian Open in Toronto and was at Tuesday’s 75-minute players meeting.

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