Viktor Hovland has publicly criticized the PGA Tour for the way that it treats its competitors.
Not even Phil Mickelson, who once harshly criticized the policies of the US Tour and its management, had been so harsh.
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The words of Hovland, this year’s FedEx Cup winner and world number four player, go even further.
The player has shown his dissatisfaction during a conversation with Espen Blaker of Eurosport Norway. The signing of Jon Rahm, his teammate in the Ryder Cup team, has been a major issue, but this has led to an analysis of the management of the Tour.
“It would be too silly to criticise players for leaving. After all, we only find out what is in the media and we don’t have everyone’s side of the story. I totally understand why he left. That’s a lot, lot of money. Even more so when the PGA Tour management has done such a bad job,” the winner of three tournaments on the PGA Tour this year began.
The young European star added: “To be clear: I’m not complaining about the position I’m in and I’m very grateful for everything. But the management has not done a good job. I think they see the players as labour and not as part of their membership. We are all part of the PGA Tour and without the players there is nothing,” Hovland said.
Hovland, who was educated at Oklahoma State University, concludes: “Then you see what happens behind closed doors, how the management actually makes decisions that are not best for the players, but best for themselves…. After all, they are not professional golfers, but businessmen who say how things should be done. There is a lot of arrogance behind it all.
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It is worth remembering that at the time, when the PGA Tour announced a framework agreement with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) to enter into its capital, many players, as Jon Rahm said, felt a sense of “betrayal”, as everything had been negotiated in secret, without them being involved. Xander Schauffele said he and other golfers had lost confidence in commissioner Jay Monahan.
That’s when the PGA Tour pulled in a heavyweight like Tiger Woods to become a player-manager to help “ensure that the Tour lives up to its mission of being a player-driven organisation for the players.
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