LIV insurgent owns as much as Johnson feedback after PGA Tour boss slammed
LIV Golf star Pat Perez has revealed he’s the person behind the feedback slamming PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, after Dustin Johnson denied criticising his former boss. LIV loved arguably their most spectacular week so far in Adelaide final week, after a sell-out crowd packed into The Grange to see Talor Gooch turn out to be the primary LIV insurgent to safe a victory down underneath. Whilst it was Gooch who got here away with the person prize, Johnson’s 4Aces claimed the £2.4 million group title.
Despite impressing on the course, the 2020 Masters champion made headlines off it after it was alleged that he claimed he ‘did not give a rattling’ about PGA Tour boss Monahan. After being requested how he believes Monahan would have felt following the success of his rivals in Australia, quite a few experiences alleged that Johnson responded: “We [LIV Golf] don’t give a damn how he [Monahan] feels.
“We understand how he feels about us, so it is mutual.” Dramatically though, the LIV star quickly denied making any such comment, forcing his agent David Winkle into release a statement distancing Johnson from the quotes.
It read: “I spoke with Dustin from Singapore this morning at which era he emphatically denied making any such assertion. He elaborated by saying his precise response to the query was ‘no remark’, however talked about that others interviewed might have answered in another way. Dustin stays grateful for his time on the PGA Tour and has the utmost respect for Commissioner Monahan.”
In the aftermath of Winkle’s assertion, Johnson’s 4Aces teammate Perez has owned as much as the criticism. As a end result the previous PGA Tour star admitted that while he used the time period ‘we’, his discontent in the direction of the Tour commissioner was private, reasonably than of his team-mates or the LIV model.
Per Sports Illustrated, Perez stated: “DJ said nothing, it was all me. I said we don’t care what Jay thinks cause we know how he feels about us and when I say WE, I mean me. I can’t speak for the whole group.” This is not the first time Perez has burnt his bridges with the PGA Tour.
Following his move to LIV last summer, the American defended the breakaway circuit’s funding from the Public Investment Fund at Saudi Arabia, and took another shot at Monahan. Speaking in June of last year he commented: “I do know everyone’s speaking about sportswashing and all of that, however Jay goes in every single place on a G4 (non-public jet).
“What do you think that f*****g thing’s filled up on? It’s not solar. It’s not a Tesla, last time I checked. It’s gas. You think he’s worried about the gas bill? I know they don’t have their own f*****g oil field in Jacksonville.”