Jay Monahan: PGA Tour Offering a Different Product Than LIV Golf

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, in his first public comments about LIV Golf since the Tour Championship last August, hinted at what his tour is offering in 2023 vs. what LIV has in store for its second season.

Monahan said:

“We’re at a point now where it’s product versus product.”

Monahan spoke at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, which is one of the new what is now called “designated events” with $20 million purses this season.

In addition to the four majors, the Players Championship, and the three FedEx Cup playoff events, eight additional tournaments are seeing a spike in prize money and an increase in the prestige of the field.

He said:

“We have our schedule. We’ve laid it out and we’re going to keep getting better and better and better. They have theirs. And we’re going to continue to be the most pro-competitive, aspirational tour in men’s professional golf.”

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LIV Golf will be starting in late February at Mayakoba in Mexico, but the full LIV 14-event LIV schedule hasn’t been released yet. In addition, no new golfers were named to the series after CEO Greg Norman said in October that he expected around seven new members. LIV has also yet to announce any television or media-rights deal in the United States, and the series lost two members of their executive team in recent weeks as well.

The PGA Tour’s 2023 part of the FedEx Cup season got off to a wild start, as Jon Rahm overcame a six-stroke deficit on the back nine to beat Collin Morikawa at the Tournament of Champions event in Hawaii.

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