Stenson confirms European Tour has sent out Premier Golf League email
European Tour CEO Keith Pelley sends message to players about potential Premier Golf League revolution...
Henrik Stenson has revealed European Tour CEO Keith Pelley has sent a strongly worded email to players about a proposed breakaway Premier Golf League, and that it was similar in tone to the one PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan sent out earlier this week.
The Swede confirmed to The Scotsman the receipt of the email, saying the messaging was "very similar to the email that Jay sent out."
Stenson, who is a member of both the European Tour and PGA Tour, said: "Without going into details, you could kind of sense or feel that the two might have talked to each other."
As for the European Tour's stance on players contemplating a world golf tour revolution, he replied: "Probably more towards stamping down than not."
In terms of Stenson's own thoughts right now, he is on the fence.
"I obviously know what everybody else has seen and read," he said. "It seems to be both exciting and turbulent a little bit at the moment."
News first broke over the weekend via golf journalist Geoff Shackelford that British-based World Golf Group has announced its structure for a new professional Tour - the Premier Golf League - comprising of 18 annual events for the world’s top 48 players in the Official World Golf Ranking.
According to a Golf Channel report, Monahan outlined that the PGA Tour had not been in contact with officials from the Premier Golf League, and that the proposed world golf tour would be going against the Tour's lucrative season-long FedEx Cup.
"The schedule for the Team Golf Concept [Premier Golf League] is designed to directly compete and conflict with the PGA Tour’s FedExCup schedule, and to not conflict with [and would be in addition to] the Masters, PGA Championship, U.S. Open and The Open Championship," read Monahan's statement.
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It also stated: "If the Team Golf Concept or another iteration of this structure becomes a reality in 2022 or at any time before or after, our members will have to decide whether they want to continue to be a member of the PGA Tour or play on a new series.
"We understand that Team Golf Concept is focused on securing player commitments first as they have no sponsorship or media offerings or right."
