Jay Monahan PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan talks about the decision to cancel the last three days of The Players Championship because of the coronavirus during a press conference Friday, March 13, 2020 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. [Will Dickey/Florida Times-Union] Fljax 031320 2playersfrida

The sports world was abruptly shaken on Tuesday as news emerged that LIV Golf and the PGA Tour agreed to a partnership, and PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has taken a lot of heat.

Unsurprisingly, that news was met with a lot of fervor and opposition. Noted golf analyst Brandel Chamblee considered it one of the saddest days in golf history. Several PGA Tour players expressed their frustrations with what happened, and the families of 9/11 victims have also signaled and elicited their outrage.

A lot of the criticism has centered around Jay Monahan. The PGA Tour Commissioner initially had no issue in railing against LIV Golf.  He no doubt provided a significant switch-up with this partnership. That’s left many to skewer the commissioner, but Monahan spoke up on Tuesday evening long after the dust settled. The 9/11 families expressed the fact that they felt dismissed, for instance

“I recognize everything I’ve said in the past in my past positions,” Monahan said via Sean Zak on Twitter. “I recognize that people are going to call me a hypocrite. Anytime I said anything, I said it with the information I had in the moment.”

As you might imagine, that quote was met with some serious brushback. The sports world was angry and livid with what Jay Monahan had to say about the LIV Golf-PGA Tour partnership. They expressed that online in a variety of ways. None of which were very kind to him.

[Sean Zak]

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