The Washington Times
December 12, 2022
Several weeks ago, I turned on NBC’s Golf Channel to find PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan conducting a press conference where he trashed and threatened PGA Tour players for daring to partake in the new upstart LIV Golf, conceived of by golfing icon Greg Norman and financed by the Saudi Investment Fund.
Branding PGA Tour players in effect criminals for entering into a contract with LIV Golf, and smearing them for engaging in “sportwashing” by accepting “blood money” from the Saudi Investment Fund, Mr. Monahan could not contain his unhinged tirade — all the while making veiled threats to kill the new tour as an existential threat to the PGA Tour.
As someone who was a member of the trial team at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice during the Reagan administration, which created competition in the telecommunications industry by breaking up the AT&T monopoly, I was immediately offended.
