Speaking ahead of this year’s Players Championship, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan managed to entirely avoid using the words “Saudi Arabia” or “LIV”—referring to the latter only as “that tour”
A year ago, Cameron Smith walked off the 18th green at TPC Sawgrass as the winner of the PGA Tour’s premier event, the Players Championship. But this time around, Smith is absent from the tournament—in a stark sign of the game’s radical upheaval since the launch of LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed circuit where Smith now plays.
“Yes, it’s awkward,” PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said Tuesday. “But ultimately, that’s a decision he made.”
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