Outraged 9/11 families feel ‘betrayed’ by PGA Tour over LIV Golf merger

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Terry Strada, the national chair of 9/11 Families United, said in a blistering statement that the organization was “shocked and deeply offended” by the stunning announcement of the new …

that the organization was “shocked and deeply offended” by the stunning announcement of the new alignment, which will also include the DP World Tour.

“Mr. Monahan talked last summer about knowing people who lost loved ones on 9/11, then wondered aloud on national television whether LIV Golfers ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour. They do now – as does he,” said Strada, whose husband Tom died at the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan in March 2023.

Strada noted in Tuesday’s statement how Monahan previously “co-opted the 9/11 community” by publicly agreeing LIV Golf was engaged in sportswashing, but now, “the PGA and Monahan appear to have become just more paid Saudi shills.”LIV Golf, which is funded by the Saudi Public Investment fund, lured some of the sport’s biggest stars to the circuit last year with reported nine-figure contracts.

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