The long awaited PGA Tour PIF deal could be getting closer. On Monday PGA Tour player directors, Tiger Woods, and PIF leadership, including Yasir Al-Rumayyan, are in the Bahamas. Players are frustrated with PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan.
At The Players Championship players spoke out about their issues with Monahan. Viktor Hovland said Monahan should take ownership of his mistakes; "As a leader of an organization, I will want a person like that to take some ownership and say, he, we made a couple of mistakes, bit this is how we're going to rectify it, instead of kind of sweeping it under the rug, which I felt like has been done to a certain degree." Xander Shauffele also has issues with Monahan saying "He's got quite a ways to go" in his pre-tournament press conference.
But now it seems like the players are taking the PGA Tour PIF deal into their own hands.
The players are fed up with Jay Monahan and it's obvious he does not have full support from the players. Tiger Woods seems to be the host for this meeting. It is being held at his club, The Albany, in the Bahamas.
Rory McIlroy is not at the meeting according to reports. However McIlroy is in favor of the meeting. McIlroy met with Al-Rumayyan over the summer. He also said following his final round that he feels like a meeting should have happened months ago. McIlroy is no longer a player director after resigning from his position at the end of last year. McIlroy has been the face of anti-LIV, and felt betrayed by Monahan and the Tour when the merger was announced last summer.
The game of golf needs this meeting to go well. The Players was a great tournament with big names at the top of the leaderboard. Scottie Scheffler, Wyndham Clark, Xander Schaffele, and Brian Harman all had a chance on the back 9. But the addition of Cam Smith, Joaquin Niemann, Bryson DeChambeau, and Abraham Ancer, who all finished top-5 in the LIV event would have added to the intrigue.
The players want this PGA Tour PIF deal to get done ASAP. If the PGA Tour is truly a player run entity, then expect a deal to get done. However that might not be the case any more with Jay Monahan seemingly looking out for himself first, then the good of the game at the top level.
