PGA Tour stars don't like Rory McIlroy's LIV Golf frustration over stance they don't share
Internal politics are at play in the PGA Tour with Rory McIlroy upsetting co-stars after the four-time major winner got frustrated over unchanged opinions over LIV Golf
Some PGA Tour stars are at odds with superstar Rory McIlroy after the Northern Irishman let his frustrations be known that others haven't softened their stance on LIV Golf as he has.
According to Golf Digest, PGA Tour stars accept McIlroy changing his stance on LIV Golf, after starting as one of the breakaway Saudi Tour's biggest critics.
However, after walking back his previous hardline, going on to admit that LIV exposed the PGA Tour ’s flaws and that he has been too judgmental of players who have joined the circuit, McIlroy has rubbed some of his PGA co-stars the wrong way after getting frustrated that they haven't followed suit.
There is also a group of PGA stars who aren't keen to see McIlroy back on the PGA Tour Policy Board after previously resigning from his position. It's claimed that Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, and Tiger Woods are three who are not keen to see McIlroy return to the post.
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Cantlay and McIlroy have a well-documented, icy relationship, while the 35-year-old's relationship with golf legend Woods has allegedly soured over the last six months. As for his issues with Spieth, McIlroy removed himself from a player text chain following the American's comments at Pebble Beach, suggesting the PGA Tour doesn't need a merger with PIF.
"My thing was if I’m the original [potential] investor that thought that they were going to get this deal done back in July, and I’m hearing a board member say that we don’t really need them now, how are they going to think about that, what are they gonna feel about that?” McIlroy said.
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“They are still sitting out there with hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions, that they’re gonna pour it into sport. And I know what Jordan was saying. … But if I were PIF and I was hearing that coming from here, the day after doing this SSG deal, it wouldn’t have made me too happy, I guess?”
McIlroy appears to be one of the key figures pushing for unity between the tours, with the civil war, as well as internal Tour politics raging on. The four-time Major winner says the golf peace pathway can be similar to that of Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement.
"I sort of liken it to like when Northern Ireland went through the peace process in the '90s and the Good Friday Agreement, neither side was happy,” McIlroy said. "Catholics weren't happy, Protestants weren't happy, but it brought peace and then you just sort of learn to live with whatever has been negotiated, right? That was in 1998 or whatever it was and 20, 25, 30 years ahead, my generation doesn't know any different. It's just this is what it's always been like and we've never known anything but peace.”
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