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KAPALUA, Hawaii — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan hosted his annual sushi dinner for players Friday night and was on hand to see Jon Rahm’s remarkable comeback from as many as nine strokes back during Sunday’s final round of the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions.
Before the final putt dropped, Monahan also took time to meet with members of the media to make his first public comments since the Tour Championship in August about the Tour and its ongoing legal skirmish with LIV Golf.
“I’m focused on what we control. We’re at a point now where it’s product versus product. And we have our schedule. We’ve laid it out. We’re going to keep getting better and better and better,” Monahan said. “They have theirs. And we’re going to continue to be the most pro competitive aspirational tour in men’s professional golf. We’re going to keep getting better. What they have is very different than what we have. We’re going down our path and they’re going down theirs. So there really isn’t — and they have been very clear about that.”
Here are some of the other noteworthy comments from the commish.
Q: Were you disappointed with the Masters’ decision to let the LIV golfers play?
JM: I wasn’t at all surprised at the Masters’ decision. To me, obviously it’s an invitational and they follow their criteria and I wasn’t surprised in any way with the decision that they made.
Q: When you talk about the Tour product, is it important that the designated events, the WGC’s, have cuts to further distinguish what you’re offering versus LIV?
Jon Rahm and PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan pose for a photo after Rahm won the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions at Plantation Course at Kapalua in Lahaina, Hawaii. (Photo: Harry How/Getty Images)
JM: I think that’s an important consideration. Yeah, I always think that, I’ve always felt that the cut is an important element to this Tour. And too, if you go back to what is the…
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