PGA Tour boss responds to CRAZY RUMOUR about LIV Golf player returns!

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has responded to a crazy rumour about LIV Golf players returning to the circuit. 

All PGA Tour members who have jumped ship to play in any LIV Golf tournament have been suspended from the Tour by Monahan. 

This decision came into immediate effect from the very first LIV Golf event in England last June. 

Monahan's decision to ban PGA Tour members has meant LIV Golf's Cameron Smith is not able to return to defend his Players Championship title at famed TPC Sawgrass this week. 

Though he said Smith's omission from the flagship event of the PGA Tour season has made things "awkward". 

Smith has said he might turn up anyway. 

But earlier this week, Golf Channel's Rex Hoggard reported how there could be way back onto the PGA Tour for those players experiencing buyer's remorse over on the Saudi-bankrolled LIV Golf League. 

Brooks Koepka is apparently one of them. 

But Monahan, who addressed the media ahead of The Players Championship on Tuesday, explained such a rumour was complete nonsense. At least for now. 

On LIV Golf players returning to compete on the PGA Tour, Monahan said: 

In Hoggard's piece about a potential return for LIV Golf players, he spoke to PGA Tour member Rickie Fowler to get his thoughts.

Fowler replied: 

Max Homa also commented: 

Should LIV Golf's Cameron Smith be in the field to defend The Players this week?

— GolfMagic (@GolfMagic) March 8, 2023

After shutting down all talk of LIV Golf player returns to the PGA Tour, Monahan then shut down another rumour about whether a door will ever be open to form a merger with LIV Golf later down the road. 

While Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm both praised LIV Golf - yes Rory McIlroy - for helping the PGA Tour make changes to its Designated Events in 2024, Monahan was in no mood to follow suit. 

See Monahan's comments here.