PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan recovering from medical situation

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is recovering from a “medical situation,” in keeping with a press release issued Tuesday night by Monahan and the PGA Tour Policy Board.

The assertion, which supplied no specifics in regards to the nature of Monahan’s situation, stated: “The Board fully supports Jay and appreciates everyone respecting his privacy. During Jay’s absence, Ron Price, Chief Operating Officer, and Tyler Dennis, Executive Vice President & President, PGA TOUR, will lead the day-to-day operations of the PGA TOUR with the assistance of the great team Jay has built, ensuring seamless continuity.”

The Tour stated it will present updates “as appropriate.”

Over the previous two years, Monahan, 53, has been one of many key figures on the middle of a tumultuous interval in skilled golf, throughout which he has steered the Tour via an influence battle and heated authorized clashes with LIV Golf.

Last week, after saying a stunning cope with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which backs LIV, Monahan confronted his gamers in what he described as an “intense” and “heated” assembly on the Canadian Open. His cost: clarify to his membership why after months of bitter preventing with LIV, the time was proper to associate with the league’s traders.  

“I’m glad I wasn’t Jay today,” former U.S. Open winner Geoff Ogilvy informed reporters after the assembly. “There’s some grumpy players in there.” 

Monahan has additionally fielded pointed criticism from 9/11 help teams in latest days for backpeddling on the laborious ethical stance he took towards the Saudi-funded operation.

“I recognize that people are going to call me a hypocrite,” Monahan informed the media forward of the match. “Anytime I said anything, I said it with the information that I had at that moment, and I said it based on someone that’s trying to compete for the PGA Tour and our players.”

Monahan turned commissioner of the Tour in 2017. Before that, he served, amongst different roles within the group, as deputy commissioner and chief working officer.

When contacted by GOLF.com, the Tour stated it had no additional touch upon Monahan’s situation.

This story might be up to date as extra info turns into accessible.

Alan Bastable

Golf.com Editor

As GOLF.com’s govt editor, Bastable is answerable for the editorial course and voice of one of many sport’s most revered and extremely trafficked information and repair websites. He wears many hats — modifying, writing, ideating, creating, daydreaming of in the future breaking 80 — and feels privileged to work with such an insanely proficient and hardworking group of writers, editors and producers. Before grabbing the reins at GOLF.com, he was the options editor at GOLF Magazine. A graduate of the University of Richmond and the Columbia School of Journalism, he lives in New Jersey together with his spouse and foursome of youngsters.