Jack Nicklaus shares what Jay Monahan told him this year when he said he was worried about the PGA Tour

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Jack Nicklaus has revealed the response of commissioner Jay Monahan when they spoke this year about the 18-time major champion’s concerns for the PGA Tour.

Of course, the civil war within golf continues, with no end in sight to the split predominantly between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.

It has been a year now since the PGA Tour reached an agreement with PIF, which appeared set to be the turning point in the game’s future. However, from the outside, it appears that little has moved on since then, and there remains serious questions about when the divide is going to be resolved.

It seems that one of those who has had real concerns about the future of the sport is arguably the greatest of all-time, with Jack Nicklaus telling a press conference ahead of this week’s Memorial Tournament that he spoke to Jay Monahan about his worries amid the ongoing situation with LIV.

Jack Nicklaus shares what Jay Monahan told him amid PGA Tour uncertainty

“I think that’s been a problem, and I think they’re working on that too. I think that’s in pretty good hands,” he said.

“A couple of months ago, I called Jay about it, I said, ‘Jay, I’m worried a little bit about what’s going on’. I said, ‘don’t tell me, because [the journalist] Alex Miceli will ask me a question about it, I’ll have to lie to him, and I don’t want to do that’. I said are you doing alright or are you not, and he said, ‘we’re doing fine’. I said that’s all I need to know, so as far as I know, the tour is doing fine and the problems are going to get worked out. How it is, I don’t know.”

No end appears to be in sight

It certainly appears that some do not share the same confidence in Monahan, with Xander Schauffele suggesting this week that the PGA Tour have needed a much stronger leader.

It is a surprise that nothing substantial appears to have happened since the framework agreement was announced, and there will be concerns that that gives LIV scope to get stronger and stronger.

Obviously, the better the breakaway tour becomes, the more leverage they will have in discussions with the PGA Tour, and the greater say they may have in what the future of the sport looks like.

For those who are worried about how long the situation is taking to address, they will hope that an announcement somehow emerges from out of the blue – just as it did a year ago.