Ponte Vedre, FL …

PGA Tour Commissioner, Jay Monahan was naturally going to be asked to comment on the controversy of a breakaway Premier Golfing League (PGL)

The PGL proposal to stage a series of $10m tournaments from 2022 commanded golfing headlines over the earlier part of the New Year until now overtaken with fears over the Coronavirus.

Monahan was asked by www.golfbytourmiss.com  if there was room on golf’s global stage for the PGL.

And in his response it’s clear that this PGL threat has seen the PGA Tour take an inner look at itself.

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan (Photo @tourmiss)

“Well, I think if — listen, you look at the PGA Tour and you look at what Keith Pelley and the European Tour have been able to accomplish, and you look at some of the other international tours, the professional game is performing at a very high level across the world,” he said.

“We’re about to get a lot stronger. We’re going to continue to go strength to strength, and that’s a question for you guys to answer. We need to stay focused on what it is that we can control. We think we’ve got a winning formula, or we know we have a winning formula, and that’s something that we’re now in a position to accentuate.

“We couldn’t feel better about our position and our ability to get stronger in the decade ahead.”