PGA Tour sets up compensation scheme for players who did not defect to LIV Golf

A player benefit programme has been established which will be "financially significant in total and incremental to our planned compensation package", according to Monahan's memo published by the Golf Channel.

NO GO: Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy.

The PGA Tour has set up a compensation scheme for players who did not defect to LIV Golf and is also looking at establishing a pathway to reintegrate those who did.

However, in a surprise move, the tour has dismissed proposals from the game's lawmakers the R&A and United States Golf Association which would see limits placed on the distance a ball can travel as "not warranted".