Some athletes are looking for more than golf at this year’s Travelers Championship, set to begin Thursday at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell.
They want answers.
Eight-time major champion Tom Watson wrote a letter to PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan, critical of PGA’s business partnership with Saudi backers of LIV Golf.
“In my opinion, the communication has been mishandled and the process by which the Tour agreed on a proposed partnership with PIF was executed without due process,” the letter states. “As a group of players and stakeholders who represent the face and the brands of the Tour, what are our choices?”
Watson said he hopes management will address players’ questions during the Travelers Championship.
Among his questions: “What does acceptance of this partnership mean to the Tour? What do we get? What do we give up? Why was this deal done in such secrecy and why wasn’t even one of the players who sits on the Tour’s Policy Board included?”
“A matter this profound deserves thorough vetting by a representative group of stakeholders which include those, who in the end, define the public image and emotional connection with the PGA Tour,” the letter states.
The letter was published by Golf Digest.
