Saudia Arabia … You receive an email from the head of the company you work and what’s the first thing you’d do?

Naturally, you’d open the email for fear, and in a worse-case scenario, you’ve lost your job.

Take some of the top-ranked Americans plying their trade on the PGA Tour and when asked ahead of this week’s Saudi International if they’ve read an email send to them by PGA Tour Commissioner, Jay Monahan.

With the golf world is abuzz with talk of the establishment of a new breakaway British-based  Premier Golf League (PGL), a proposed 18-event series to feature 42 of the world’s best players and with Monahan’s clearly seeking to nip in the bud talk of a breakaway series by writing to each and every PGA Tour player.

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan (Photo @tourmiss)

The PGL is the first plans for a ‘breakaway’ series since late 1994 when Greg Norman was lambasted by then PGA Tour Commissioner, Tim Finchem over suggestions of establishing an eight-event ‘World Golf Championship’ series of events that bizarrely Finchem would then adopt in 1999 and when Norman was no longer on the regular PGA Tour.

It’s not known what was in Monahan’s email to every member of the PGA Tour but we do know it was not an ‘ultimatum’ email but more of a ‘information’ email.

However, not everyone under the PGA Tour umbrella was all that keen to read Monahan’s believed long-winded electronic message.

Dustin Johnson – “From what I was told, I got an e-mail recently. I haven’t read it yet. Probably read it right after this press conference.”

Brooks Koepka – I saw the e-mail last night before I was going to bed … but I just couldn’t know enough to genuinely have an opinion or know –know enough to speak on it.

Patrick Reed – I actually saw it for the first time last night and I didn’t — I didn’t read it after I got done with my obligations. Like I said, I don’t know enough about it, and I would need to do a deeper dive to make any comments
about it.