PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan visited the players on the front line of golf's feud with the LIV Golf Invitational Series at the Canadian Open on Sunday, and blasted those who have jumped to the Saudi-backed venture as free-riders.
With the Canadian Open and LIV inaugural event at Centurion Club outside London both played at the weekend it marked the first head-to-head showdown between the PGA Tour and the controversial big-money breakaway series that is looking to shake up golf's status quo.
"Those players have chosen to sign multi-year lucrative contracts to play in a series of exhibition matches against the same players over-and-over again."We're not going to allow players to free ride off our loyal members, the best players in the world." "This is a day I will remember for a long, long time, 21st PGA Tour win, one more than someone else , that gave me a little bit of extra incentive today," McIlroy told a greenside reporter.
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