The Latest Breaking News from Jay Monahan

GRAND BLANC, Mich. — Jack Nicklaus, the Ohio State Buckeye decked out in his typical scarlet polo, doesn't consider his regular trips to Michigan to be crossing into enemy territory. He's won a U.S. Senior Open here, at Oakland Hills in 1991.

Despite the PGA Tour confirming that the circuit's top players were committing to play 20 events in 2023, one of world's best Jon Rahm gave a confusing reaction when discussing the elevated schedule.

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy led crisis talks with PGA Tour stars ahead of the BMW Championships in Wilmington last week, amid the ongoing threat posed by LIV Golf

“This isn’t some sort of renegade group trying to take some sort of power grab of the PGA Tour,” said Rory McIlroy, a player-director on the tour board.

On Wednesday, PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan revealed several changes coming next season.

DALLAS — Ultimately the 2022 golf season will be remembered for chaos, confusion, the exit of top players and important personalities to LIV Golf and the PGA Tour’s response — made emphatically by Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan Wednesday — to a changing landscape.

ATLANTA — One imagines that PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has dreamed mostly perfect dreams these last five years. Inhabiting his sleep are visions of immaculate runways of green. Of Fortune 500 companies practically cage fighting for the privilege of lending him their names. Of low maintenance players who never…

There's no shortage of pettiness.

Wednesday's news showed that the Tour’s biggest names have cemented their position atop the food chain.