Rory McIlroy LIV Golf, mic drop
Rory McIlroy delivered a strong message about LIV Golf players, saying if they don't want to play on the PGA Tour, 'that says something about you.'
After shooting 5-under 66 at Quail Hollow Club on Friday at the Truist Championship and recording a career-best 14 consecutive greens in regulation (Nos. 4-17), Rory McIlroy was asked three questions about LIV and skillfully threw shade on those players suggesting they're not interested in returning to the PGA Tour. Asked first about Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund pulling its funding of LIV, McIlroy replied, “I think everyone sort of knows my views on LIV and where it stands in the game of golf.
I don't think I need to rehash any of that. It's never been for me and, look, it doesn't mean that LIV is going to go away. They're going to go and try and find alternative investment, whatever that may look like.
But when one of the wealthiest sovereign wealth funds in the world thinks that you're too expensive for them, that sort of says something. ” McIlroy had to know the second question was coming too: What should the path back to the Tour be? “It's a question if they do want to come back.
Obviously we have seen the quotes over the last few days. And, you know, it seems like some of the guys, if -- again, it all depends on what happens to LIV. But if it is a scenario where they have the option to come back and play on the traditional tours, you know, I think Brian Rolapp has said anything that makes this Tour stronger, anything that makes the DP World Tour stronger, I think everyone should be open to that.