Golf Fans Ripped PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan Over Hypocritical Interview About LIV Golf and 9/11 Families

This interview from last year looks really bad now.

The PGA Tour and LIV Golf stunned the golf world on Tuesday when they announced they would be merging to unify men’s professional golf. 

The two sides, of course, have been battling over the past year or so since the Saudi-funded league started buying up big-name players from the PGA Tour, moves that strongly hurt the PGA Tour and put its future very much in jeopardy. 

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, who has fans calling for his job after Tuesday's news, often spoke about how players going to LIV Golf should check their morals and think about the families impacted by the 9/11 attacks who have spoken out against the Saudi-funded league. 

Twelve months ago he went on CBS during the final round of the Canadian Open (which takes place this week) and got emotional talking about those families: 

The Canadian Open is this week. Here is what PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said at that event one year ago. pic.twitter.com/CtmnK74kbd

— Brendan Porath (@BrendanPorath) June 6, 2023

“I think you’d have to be living under a rock to not know there are significant implications and as it relates to the families of 9/11—I have two families that are close to me that lost loved ones,” Moynahan said. “So, my heart goes out to them. And I would, ask any player that has left or any player that would ever consider leaving— have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour?”

Now Monahan is in business with LIV Golf and the financial backers of the league, because apparently money talks. 

Golf fans crushed him over that interview: 

This is so damning. I do not see how Monahan can continue in his role. He certainly has lost the trust of the players. An unbelievably sad day in the world of golf. https://t.co/4eovDwB4re

— Gary Mason🇺🇦 (@garymasonglobe) June 6, 2023

Hypocrisy is not a strong enough word. https://t.co/7RjMhJ750x

— Henry Blake (@MASH407777) June 6, 2023

Jay Monahan used and misled the 9/11 survivors to fight his battles for him and then tossed them to the dirt as soon as he got the bag. Yet he won't get half the vitriol that Phil Mickelson got for joining LIV. https://t.co/F9dPm25wjz

— 7th October 2021 (@InsaneHashtag) June 6, 2023

How much money does Jay now sleep on at night to eat these words? https://t.co/TmGwMGnrLS

— Giles Ferrell (@gilesferrell) June 6, 2023

What a fool https://t.co/sz1InAHDbk

— JOHN JOHNSON II (@TheJJohnsonTV) June 6, 2023

This aged well.... https://t.co/jgbnbIZsn3

— Cian Leahy (@cianleahy16) June 6, 2023

Sickening. To use the families of 9/11 as leverage of support for the PGA Tour only to partner with Saudis a year later. https://t.co/HbNrIigUuE

— 5Star Preps (@5StarPreps) June 6, 2023

The overwhelming 2023 winner of ‘this is not a good look’ award. https://t.co/AbLTckto1c

— John Duggan (@JohnDugganSport) June 6, 2023

Jay its time to go, get your coat lad https://t.co/Q7GF1CASUd

— JAKE (@_jakemitchell) June 6, 2023

Greedy, cowardly, hypocritical Jay Monahan https://t.co/gQnustUVL8

— Niall Anglim (@NiallAnglim) June 6, 2023