Jay Monahan on LIV and the future of golf
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Earlier this year, the PGA Tour, the world’s preeminent professional golf league, announced an agreement to form an alliance with LIV Golf, a start-up tour with billions of dollars in backing from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund. The bitter rivalry between the two leagues and the controversial reaction to the merger of many prominent players have tested the PGA Tour and its leadership. The target of much of the criticism was PGA commissioner Jay Monahan, who went on medical leave a week after the announcement.
Monahan spoke with Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times to acknowledge the mistakes made in the rollout of that agreement and to talk about his mental health journey since then.
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