“Got the Respect of the PIF”: Jay Monahan’s Reality Gets Revealed Amid Getting Abhorred by Golf World

The insider notion of Jay Monahan is kind of completely different from how outsiders view him. The 53-year-old PGA Tour commissioner continues to obtain a number of flak for his stewardship of the PGA Tour – LIV Golf merger. The wound runs fairly deep; fans booed him as recently as this year’s PLAYERS Championship. 

However Joe Ogilvie, who was recently inducted as the ‘Director Liaison’ on the PGA tour enterprises, the newly shaped for-profit entity with SSG as an funding accomplice, insists Monahan would possibly win the ‘Comeback Participant of the 12 months’ award. If that existed, in fact.

There have been calls for resignation. Most famously from Xander Schauffele, the 2024 PGA Championship winner, who referred to as out Monahan final 12 months. However that notion has modified, claimed Joe Ogilvie in a candid chat with Eamon Lynch. “He’s acquired an enormous quantity of respect from his staff. The gamers over time went from, ‘Let’s do away with this man’ to ‘That is the man who’s gonna lead us.’”

There isn’t any doubt Monahan himself believes so. The PGA Tour commissioner mentioned he’s the ‘proper particular person for the job,’ on the New York Occasions Dealbook Summit final October. Ogilvie, although, has no qualms in admitting that Monahan and his trusted soldiers botched up the merger rollout.

Furthermore, long-time sponsor, Honda, has left. Wells Fargo received’t renew its contract past this 12 months.  In reality, the Royal Financial institution of Canada, the title sponsor of the continued Canadian Open is reportedly unwilling to sign a multi-year extension. 

Ogilvie, nevertheless, supplied a unique perspective. “He’s extremely good when he’s engaged with sponsors, he’s extremely good one-on-one with the blokes.” Ogilvie additional claimed that Monahan understands the wants of SSG, the present accomplice, and PIF, the long run accomplice higher than anybody else within the room. Requested if the 53-year-old has his belief, Ogilvie didn’t should suppose twice, earlier than saying sure. 

“Jay is uniquely suited to perform the targets of not solely what SSG needs, however what the gamers need. He’s acquired the respect of different leaders of the sport and I believe he’s acquired the respect of the PIF.” Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the PIF governor, met the player-directors of the PGA Tour Coverage board within the Bahamas. Joe Ogilvie was within the room the place it occurred. And the veteran claims there’s mutual respect and belief between His Excellency and Jay Monahan. 

PIF Governor and Jay Monahan are working in tandem

Ogilvie didn’t share many particulars from the agenda of the Bahamas assembly aside from what has already been supplied by Tiger Woods, and a few other player-directors. However the former PGA Tour Professional, mentioned, “It was an excellent assembly and you might see that there was a mutual respect between he (sic) and Jay, which can be good.” 

Reportedly, Jay Monahan and Yasir Al-Rumayyan met solely as soon as between the June 6 announcement and the Bahamas assembly. Regardless, mutual respect spells nicely for the long run. Joe Ogilvie affirmed that efforts to deliver each Excursions collectively are nicely underway. And, there’s goodwill from either side.

Notably, religion in Jay Monahan has additionally come from Jack Nicklaus beforehand. The 18-time Main winner believed that regardless of some early missteps, the PGA Tour commissioner really cares about his gamers Ogilvie’s feedback, by advantage of coming from a strong insider, carry extra weight. Maybe, that will pacify Monahan’s detractors a bit extra. 

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