KAPALUA, Hawaii — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan hosted his annual sushi dinner for players Friday night and was on hand to see Jon Rahm’s remarkable comeback from as many as nine strokes back during Sunday’s final round of the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions.
Before the final putt dropped, Monahan also took time to meet with members of the media to make his first public comments since the Tour Championship in August about the Tour and its ongoing legal skirmish with LIV Golf.
“I’m focused on what we control. We’re at a point now where it’s product versus product. And we have our schedule. We’ve laid it out. We’re going to keep getting better and better and better,” Monahan said. “They have theirs. And we’re going to continue to be the most pro competitive aspirational tour in men’s professional golf. We’re going to keep getting better. What they have is very different than what we have. We’re going down our path and they’re going down theirs. So there really isn’t — and they have been very clear about that.”
Here are some of the other noteworthy comments from the commish.