‘Arrogance Personified’: Golf World Outraged Over PGA Tour’s Obnoxious Announcement

The LIV Golf vs PGA Tour war has reached its pinnacle. Moreover, the PGA Tour has decided to suspend all the golfers joining the LIV Golf Invitational Series. However, the LIV Golf is trying its best to rope in players from the tour, and so far, they have managed to get Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, Sergio Garcia, and Kevin Na, to name a few. 

Meanwhile, the PGA Tour is going through a tough time. And in the recent statement released, they asked for support from fans and players. However, during these delicate times, the Tour seems to have made itself vulnerable. A golf Twitter account, Links Nation, posted screenshots of chats from a mini-tour player this morning. 

The chats read that the tour emailed out the Korn Ferry registration. The tour has increased the Q school fees by 30%. Moreover, it has gone from $5300 to $6500. Additionally, the player wrote, “They are a horrible organization, dude. Going after the income of guys that are all broke. Especially during a week where the LIV is threatening their future.”

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Moreover, these things getting into the public domain, especially during these sensitive times, is an enormous concern for Jay Monahan. This is making the young golfers easy to poach, which is harmful to the PGA Tour in the future. 

The PGA Tour has under-funded the developmental tours

The criticism that PGA Tour has been receiving is that they haven’t been able to fund the developmental circuits. Moreover, even on the PGA Tour, apart from the top players, most golfers struggle to keep up with the expenses unless they finish higher on the leaderboard. The caddies also do not receive any attention from their side throughout the year. 

Hence, this is where LIV Golf is trying to capitalize by offering guaranteed pay for every golfer. Therefore, prominent golf reporter Alan Shipnuck quoted the tweet, “This is an undeniable part of this story: the Tour made itself vulnerable to competition because its product is stale and the TV/streaming/social media presentation mostly awful. And the Tour has badly underfunded the developmental circuits, making the young players easy to poach.”

Meanwhile, there were plenty of reactions from fans to this tweet, particularly criticizing the tour and Jay Monahan. So let us have a look at a few such tweets from the golfing world. 

The golf world reacts to the mini-tour player criticizing the Q school fees hike 

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