PGA Tour: Jon Rahm and Brian Harman support Jay Monahan going forward

For the reason that tour agreed to a take care of the Saudi Arabian Public Funding Fund (PIF) on Jun. 6, PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has caught a ton of flak.

Many high gamers, together with Jon Rahm, have expressed emotions of ‘betrayal,’ whereas Rory McIlroy admitted to feeling like a ‘sacrificial lamb.’ Others have expressed their frustrations, too, citing an absence of transparency from tour management throughout their negotiations with the PIF.

But, forward of the FedEx St. Jude Championship—the primary occasion of the FedEx Cup Playoffs—each Rahm and Champion Golfer of the 12 months Brian Harman expressed their full confidence in Monahan as commissioner going ahead.

“I believe he ought to have the chance proper now to complete this off the best way he did,” Rahm stated. “I believe we’re rapidly forgetting how effectively he managed plenty of issues. He did a tremendous job throughout COVID and stored lots of people employed.”

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Certainly, through the 2020 calendar yr, Monahan labored tirelessly, so the PGA Tour continued by means of the pandemic. No followers have been allowed at occasions, and widespread testing was made out there for gamers and staffers to make sure the security of all concerned.

“I believe [Monahan] deserves a reasonably lengthy leash,” Harman stated. “With out him, I don’t know if we make it by means of COVID. His management and bravado by means of that — we have been the one sport working, and I can keep in mind we have been on the vary and in Connecticut, and it’s peak COVID, and a few guys have been happening left and proper like this man is optimistic.”

“The world was scared, we have been all scared, and we hear Jay is flying up, and I’m like, effectively, that’s it, we tried, he’s going to close it down. He will get up there in entrance of all people and plows forward.”

Since then, skilled golf has been divided like by no means earlier than. The rise of LIV Golf threatened the PGA Tour as a long-standing establishment.

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High gamers ditched the tour to hunt higher pay and play in 54-hole occasions everywhere in the world.

Golf was divided, and Monahan, together with high tour officers Ed Herlihy and Jimmy Dunne, took issues to the PIF to bridge the hole.

They have been rightfully criticized for leaving gamers in the dead of night, however they’ve since admitted that how the settlement was introduced was poorly performed.

Since then, Monahan has labored to enhance the tour—regardless of taking a health-related absence from Jun. 13 to Jul. 17.

Monahan introduced Tiger Woods in as a sixth member of the PGA Tour’s coverage board on Aug. 1; his influential voice will impression all essential selections associated to the tour.

“We must always give [Monahan] the prospect to see this by means of,” Rahm added. “Then, after all the things is alleged and performed, if gamers need to make a change, then that may be a greater time, however proper now, I don’t assume it’s.”

Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Enjoying By. You may observe him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. Remember to take a look at @_PlayingThrough too.