Els calls for change atop PGA Tour, blasts LIV

Former world No. 1 Ernie Els stated Thursday that the PGA Tour board ought to step down over the choice to type an alliance with Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund and described the Saudi-backed breakaway circuit LIV Golf League as “circus golf.”

Els stated the best way the PGA Tour went concerning the partnership with out participant enter was an “absolute shambles” and that PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan wouldn’t nonetheless be within the position if it have been as much as him.

“If this occurred in my day, in my prime, there is no method he’s round. No method. And the board has to vary,” the 53-year-old informed reporters on the Royal Liverpool Golf Membership, the place he shot a 75 within the first spherical of The Open.

“I am sorry, it is not proper. Speak to us, inform us what you are going to do, plan on negotiating. Do not simply go rogue as a member of the board and are available again with a deal and assume we’re all going to say sure.

“You are affecting individuals’s lives. You are affecting the skilled sport. It is simply so dangerous.”

Els stated he was no fan of LIV’s staff side or its 54-hole, no-cut format.

“That is circus golf. Crew golf does not work,” stated Els, who received the British Open in 2002 and 2012. “It really works possibly in a two-month, three-month joyful season.

“Get these guys collectively, get groups collectively and play all over the world. However then play actual golf.

“That is what this factor is all about. That is what I prided myself on, like Tiger [Woods] and a few of these guys, getting your self into majors and grinding.”