Premier Golf League will not give up easily despite lack of star power | Ewan Murray


Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka are among those to distance themselves from the new tour, but too much time and money has been invested for PGL to turn back now

Coronavirus and its associated troubles is not the only matter to have caused Jay Monahan recent strain. As golf, like all other sports, now seeks to navigate a path towards resumption there will inevitably be a sense that additional challenges may disappear. They may actually multiply. Monahan, in his role as the PGA Tour’s commissioner, encountered 2020 turmoil even before the pandemic afforded the world a new normal.

The Premier Golf League dominated discussion in the early part of this year, even though sceptics insist this is a scheme based in dreamland. It isn’t going away, you know. Or is it? Must it?

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