“No, there is no chance they can return to play on the PGA Tour. They joined the LIV Golf Series, they made their choices and we made ours. With different players we are involved.” PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan on the eve of the Atlanta Tour Championship closes the possibility of a return of those members who have chosen the Arab Super League leaving the top American men’s circuit.
Decision that resulted in consequences, including suspensions, exchanges of accusations and a legal battle.
Jay Monahan, statements
The PGA Tour has chosen the hard line and to counter the advance of the new economic power of the green has announced changes.
The circuit’s “elevated events” in 2023 will go from 8 to 12. With the best players on the tour pledging to play them all. The prize pools for these events, Monahan’s announcement, “will all be at least $ 20 million.”
Not only that: the “Player Impact Program” will double and go from 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 and reward no longer 10 but 20 players. To receive special bonuses, who will be most able to engage fans and promote this discipline regardless of performance on the pitch.
The PGA Tour is an organization that takes care of the main professional golf tours in the United States. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida. Its official name is written all in capital letters, or “PGA TOUR”
The PGA Tour became an organization of its own in 1968 when it split from the PGA of America, which is now primarily an association of golf professionals, such as masters and club managers. Tournament players first formed their own organization, the Association of Professional Golfers (APG).
Later, in 1968, the players abolished the APG and agreed to operate as the PGA “Tournament Players Division”, a completely autonomous division of the PGA, under the supervision of a new 10-member Tournament Policy Board.
The name then officially changed to “PGA Tour” in 1975. In 1981 he has a marketing dispute with the PGA of America and decides to officially change his name. From the end of August of that year it becomes “TPA Tour”, which stands for “Tournament Players Association”
The dispute was resolved within seven months and the tour name returned to “PGA Tour” in March 1982. Due to the multiplicity of similar names, it is good to explain what the PGA Tour organizes and what it does not.
The PGA tour does not operate any of the four major tournaments or the Ryder Cup. The PGA of America, not the PGA Tour, organizes the PGA Championship, the Senior PGA Championship, and co-organizes the Ryder Cup with the PGA European Tour.
The PGA Tour is not involved in women’s US tours, which are controlled by the LPGA. The PGA Tour is also not the official body that regulates the game of golf in the United States: this is instead the role of the USGA, which also organizes the U.S.
Open. What the PGA Tour does instead is organize all the rest of the golf events week after week, including The Players Championship and the FedEx Cup as well as the Presidents Cup every two years.
