At the end of what has been a difficult week for the fractured professional golf community, the final round of the Canadian Open offered the best argument for why the PGA Tour is worth saving, DanWolken writes.
operation, was the greatest gift he could have given the game of golf on this particular day.
This is a real threat, and the PGA Tour needs far more from its commissioner than an interview on CBS where he derides LIV as exhibition golf and touts the purity of competition on his own tour. None of that moves the needle at all, but for some reason Monahan can’t bring himself to tell the truth here.
If the PGA Tour can’t offer that exclusivity, what does it really have? And if it allows its most valuable members to take the Saudi money without repercussions, what incentive do they have to play events like the Canadian Open or the John Deere Classic or the 3M Open?
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