Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy known as out PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan in a fiery Twitter rant after the bombshell information of the PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger on Tuesday.
In a collection of tweets, Portnoy ripped Monahan as “a bit s–t” after the PGA Tour introduced that it will merge into one firm with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league, in addition to the European DP World Tour.
Portnoy was significantly sad with Monahan over earlier feedback he made, backing the households of 9/11 victims who expressed public outrage over former PGA execs defecting to LIV.
Final June, 911familiesunited.org, a coalition of households and survivors of the 2001 terrorist assaults, despatched a scathing letter to representatives of Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed and Kevin Na accusing them of sportswashing and betraying the US.
Fifteen of the 19 terrorists accountable for the collapse of the World Commerce Towers and the deaths of almost 3,000 folks on Sept. 11, 2001 had been from Saudi Arabia.
“That is why you need to by no means lie,” Portnoy wrote on Twitter. “Folks could not like the reality however they’ll respect you for saying it.
“This commish of the PGA comes out wanting like the largest scumbag of all ranting and raving about 9/11 solely to merge with Liv an hour later. What a bit of s—t.”
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“I’m so sick of this PGA commissioner speaking about 9/11,” Portnoy stated in a video connected to his tweet.
“Buddy, it’s in regards to the cash. It’s solely in regards to the cash. You already know it’s in regards to the cash.”
Portnoy went on to say that he would take into account shifting Barstool’s headquarters to Saudi Arabia.
“I’m not saying — nicely I’m saying, if Saudi Arabia is like, ‘Dave, I’m going to offer you one billion {dollars} to maneuver Barstool’s headquarters to Saudi Arabia and also you solely need to be right here sooner or later a 12 months, I’ll do this so quick, it’ll make your f–kin head spin,” Portnoy stated.
He added that if a suggestion included 5 million, he’d say, “You guys are morally f–king corrupt, I need no a part of that.”
In a separate tweet, Portnoy shared a screengrab of Monahan’s response to the 9/11 victims’ households in June 2022, and demanded an evidence.
Monahan’s feedback included partially: “I’ve two households which are near me that misplaced family members. My coronary heart goes out to them and I’d ask that any participant that has left, or that might ever take into account leaving, have you ever ever needed to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour?”
On the time, Monahan’s feedback got here after he suspended any PGA Tour professional taking part in a LIV Golf match.
Portnoy known as Monahan’s feedback “bulls–t,” and continued chastising the PGA Tour commissioner.
“I’m gonna want Monahan to handle these feedback which had been so clearly bulls–t in actual time however to invoke 9/11 to get public opinion in your facet in a monetary golf league dispute is disgusting,” Portnoy wrote.
“Additionally I might give a s–t much less they’re merging,” Portnoy wrote in one other tweet. “Getting all the most effective golfers again in the identical tournaments is nice for golf and the followers.
“It’s simply hilarious all of the bulls–t that was being spewed about how morally superior the PGA was solely to have them merge nearly immediately.”
All events will work on the potential for LIV gamers to reapply for memberships with the PGA and DP Excursions after this 12 months, based on Golf Digest.
In response to the PGA Tour, the Saudi Public Funding Fund “will make a capital funding” into the brand new, yet-to-be-named supertour.