{"id":1995908,"date":"2023-08-09T19:34:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T23:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pga-tour-commissioner-jay-monahan-reveals-reason-behind-sudden-medical-leave\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T19:35:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T23:35:15","slug":"pga-tour-commissioner-jay-monahan-reveals-reason-behind-sudden-medical-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pga-tour-commissioner-jay-monahan-reveals-reason-behind-sudden-medical-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan discloses cause for unexpected medical absence."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpga-tour-commissioner-jay-monahan-reveals-reason-behind-sudden-medical-leave%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1995908&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan Opens Up About Anxiety Over\u200d Saudi-backed LIV Golf Merger<\/h2>\n<p>PGA Tour Commissioner Jay\u200d Monahan revealed on Wednesday\u200d that the reason he took\u200c an abrupt leave\u200b of absence after announcing that the PGA would merge with the Saudi-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/liv-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/proof-native-americans-in-arizona-given-tvs-tablets-resort-stays-for-votes-registering-to-vote\/\" title=\"PROOF: Native Americans in Arizona Given TVs, Tablets, Resort Stays for Votes\/Registering to Vote\">golf<\/a>&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;>LIV Golf<\/a> was because\u200b he \u200dhad anxiety over the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Monahan made the admission while talking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megan-rapinoe-takes-aim-at-draymond-green-after-he-questions-gender-wage-gap-in-sports\/\" title=\"Megan Rapinoe Takes Aim At Draymond Green After He Questions Gender Wage Gap In Sports\">reporters ahead<\/a> of this week\u2019s FedEx \u200dSt. Jude\u200d Championship at TPC Southwind, according to\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/story\/_\/id\/38162356\/jay-monahan-cites-anxiety-pga-tour-pif-deal-medical-leave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think the reality for me \u200cwas that I was dealing\u2062 with anxiety, which created physical and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-year-old-girl-pepper-sprayed-during-interaction-with-rochester-police\/\" title=\"9-Year-Old Girl Pepper Sprayed During Interaction With Rochester Police\">mental health issues<\/a> and challenges for me,\u201d Monahan said. \u201cAnd I realized that\u200d I \u2064needed to step away and to deal with that and understand how to develop the skills to \u2063deal \u2063with that going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo step away at that point in time \u200bwas very difficult \u200bfor me, but I needed \u2064to take care of myself and my family, and ultimately come\u200b back here stronger than I\u2019ve ever been to lead the PGA Tour forward. And my family and my doctors supported me coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pga-tour-commissioner-jay-monahan-reveals-reason-behind-sudden-medical-leave\/\" title=\"PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan discloses cause for unexpected medical absence.\">merger negotiations happened<\/a> in secret and only became public on June 6, 2023. There\u2062 was widespread backlash to the announcement, \u200cincluding from some of the \u200btop players in\u2063 the game, and the following week, Monahan took the leave of absence.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think \u2064everyone knows my nature and my nature\u200b is to always be one to run into a fight or a conflict, not run\u200d away from it,\u201d Monahan claimed. \u201cBecause I had world-class medical care, I fully committed to\u200c the process. I was not going to come back until I was told by doctors and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-browns-close-facility-delay-flight-after-positive-covid-19-test\/\" title=\"NFL-Browns close facility, delay flight after positive COVID-19 test\">medical experts<\/a> and my wife and my girls that I was fully supported in coming\u2063 back. And that was not something that was a certainty when I\u200d stepped away.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Monahan faced intense \u2062criticism after the deal was announced \u2064from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/9-11-families-group-slam-pga-tour-for-merging-with-liv-golf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9\/11 families group<\/a> who said that they were betrayed by him.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPGA Commissioner Jay Monahan co-opted the 9\/11\u2063 community \u2062last year in \u200dthe PGA\u2019s unequivocal agreement that the Saudi LIV project \u200bwas nothing \u2063more\u2062 than sportswashing \u2064of Saudi Arabia\u2019s reputation,\u201d\u2063 said 9\/11 Families United Chair Terry Strada, whose husband Tom died in the World Trade Center\u2019s North Tower. \u201cBut now \u2062the PGA and Monahan appear to have become just more paid Saudi shills, taking\u2064 billions of\u2062 dollars to cleanse the Saudi\u2062 reputation so that Americans and the world will forget how the Kingdom spent\u200c their \u2063billions of dollars before 9\/11 to fund terrorism,\u200c spread\u2064 their vitriolic \u2063hatred\u2063 of Americans, and finance al Qaeda and the murder\u2063 of our loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cMake no mistake \u2013 \u2064we will never forget,\u201d<\/strong> the statement continued. <strong>\u201cMr. Monahan talked last summer about knowing \u200bpeople who lost loved\u200c ones \u200bon 9\/11, then wondered aloud on national television\u200c whether LIV Golfers\u2062 ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour. They do now as does \u200che. PGA Tour leaders should \u2063be ashamed of their hypocrisy and greed.\u2062 Our entire 9\/11 community has been betrayed by Commissioner Monahan and the PGA as it appears their concern for our loved ones was merely window-dressing in their quest for money \u2013 it was never to honor the great game of golf.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan admitted to reporters at the FedEx St. Jude Championship that anxiety over the merger with Saudi-backed LIV Golf led to his sudden leave of absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1995909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}