{"id":307686,"date":"2023-06-14T02:40:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T02:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=307686"},"modified":"2023-06-14T03:58:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T03:58:39","slug":"pga-tour-boss-hospitalised-with-medical-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=307686","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour boss hospitalised with 'medical issue'"},"content":{"rendered":"

PGA Tour<\/a> commissioner Jay Monahan is recovering from a medical situation, the tour announced.<\/p>\n

The tour did not disclose the nature of the situation or how serious it was, only that two of his executives would lead the day-to-day operations of the PGA Tour during the most intense time of its 54-year history.<\/p>\n

The announcement comes a week after Monahan stunned the golf world by announcing the PGA Tour had ended its battle with Saudi Arabia's wealth fund<\/a> and its LIV Golf League by agreeing to a business partnership.<\/p>\n

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Monahan, 53, spent nearly two months working on the deal with two PGA Tour board members, investment banker Jimmy Dunne and New York attorney Ed Herlihy, without any players' knowledge.<\/p>\n

Almost all of them said they were shocked. Some said they felt betrayed.<\/a><\/p>\n

The tour said its chief operating officer, Ron Price, and its president, Tyler Dennis, would be in charge while Monahan recovers.<\/p>\n

The US Open – one of four golf majors annually – begins on Thursday night (AEST)\ufeff<\/p>\n

Monahan was expected to meet with players and the media next week at the Travelers Championship in Connecticut.<\/p>\n

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