Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour commissioner, and its board of directors, have done for golf what Chris Licht, David Zaslav and John Malone have done for CNN. They destroyed the reputation, integrity and credibility of professional golf as thoroughly as they did the reputation of the cable news network.
Jay Monahan and the PGA Tour board have betrayed their country, their sport, their players and the 9/11 dead, two of whose families Monahan claims to know. Let’s watch this clip from last year where PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan demonstrates the craven and astounding hypocrisy of Jay Monahan and the PGA Tour with CBS sports legend Jim Nance:
The merger obviously thrilled Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia’s current golf partner, whose arrest for the mishandling of classified documents seems increasingly imminent. Here’s Trump’s Truth Social post about the news:
The American media has generally failed to cover the shocking details of the inexperienced, incompetent and unqualified novice investor Jared Kushner. If you’ll recall, Kushner received $2 billion of the repressive kingdom’s blood money over the objections of its investment professionals, and at the direction of the murdering Crown Prince and de facto ruler MBS. MBS is the first foreign tyrant to control a western sports league. He is also the man who ordered the dismemberment of a The Washington Post reporter, instigated a child famine in Yemen, staged mass executions by beheading, repressed all forms of speech, protest and conscience, and rules a kingdom where women and gays are routinely stoned to death.
I said back in July of 2022 that the Saudis are a force for global chaos, and that it was well past time American leaders stop getting played by them:
The PGA Tour — and Americans, more broadly — certainly got played with yesterday’s announcement. MBS is now the de facto commissioner of the PGA Tour. Golf’s greatest players are now his propaganda stooges, thanks to the greed and lack of integrity of Jay Monahan and the PGA Tour board.
This is what the PGA Tour has become. These are the images of their new partnership. As they say a picture is worth a thousand words:
For more of my reaction to the PGA Tour merging with LIV Golf, I hope you’ll have a listen:
Well Steve today nothing surprises me about what many Americans will do for financial gain. Selling their soul to MBS for billions of dollars is just the tip of the iceberg my friend as you know.
This story is emblematic of the avarice and greed displayed by our own "Oligarchs".
I often ask the question" just how much money is enough!"
Obviously there is NEVER enough for the top 20%.
I have never been in that group nor have I even come close so I can not imagine what it must be like to feel insecure that I only have 200 million dollars in wealth. So insecure that I would sell my children to get another 20 million dollars from a despot like MBS.
I am so thankful that my life is ending in the near term so that I do not have to see where it all ends.
You are so spot on with this and I am crushed! I live on a small island in the Southeast part of the US. MANY PGA (well, now former) golfers live and visit here. They have become a fabric of our community and it pains me to now say that I will Never attend nor watch an event involving these thugs.