San Diego-Superstar Golfer Rory Mcilroy, once a leading critic of Liv Golf, said Wednesday that it is time for the Saudi-owned league and the PGA tour to reunite.
World No. 3-Ranked Golfers, who spoke before Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines Golf Course, said that professional golfers have “everything done better from all this”, but Mcilroy said that the current format is “unsustainable” needs to start reuniting as soon as 2026 -The season.
“Whether you stayed on the PGA tour or you left, we have all benefited from this,” Mcilroy told a group of reporters. “I’ve been to say this a lot: we’re playing for a $ 20 million price fund this week. It would never have happened if life had not come around.
“I think everyone just has to get over it and we all have to say, ok, this is the starting point and we are moving forward. We do not look behind us, we do not look at the past. What has happened has happened and it has Been unfortunate, but reunification, how we all come back together and move forward, that is the best for everyone.
“If people are butt or have their feelings injured for guys walking or whatever, like who cares? Let’s move forward together and let’s just try to get this thing up again and do what is best for the game. “
About an hour after McIlroy spoke, PGA Tour -Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said a meeting last week with President Donald Trump and Golfer Tiger Woods and Adam Scott moved the tour “One Step Closer” to reunion.
“Standing, that’s what the fans want,” Monahan said. “… all the best players in the world competing with each other and against each other.”
Mcilroy said he discussed the situation with Trump when the two played golf in early January and he believes the president can help unite the tours. Life hosts a tournament every year on a Trump-owned property.
“He can do many things,” Mcilroy said. “He can be influential. … I think when he says something they listen and I think it’s a big deal.”
Mcilroy admitted that he did not always know about golfer who left in 2022 for life. But he said he grew to change when he looked at his bank account.
“I look at what I did in 2019 before life came and I look at what I did after life came and it is very different,” Mcilroy said.
He added that he did not know so originally “because of the crack” life caused in the game.
“It wasn’t good for the overall game,” Mcilroy said. “It wasn’t good for any of the tours.”
Mcilroy also spoke Genesis, his first tournament at Torrey Pines since he finished in a draw for seventh in 2021 US Open. Mcilroy has played Farmers Insurance Open here three times, with top-five finish in 2019 and 2020.
“It’s good to be back,” he said. “It’s a bit of a different installation than the US Open ’21; it is much softer and rough is thick and (the course plays very long.
“The course will play for a long time, the rough is very, a lot of punishment, so there is a premium to put your ball in the fairway and then check the spin in the greens.”
-Jay Posner, Field Level Media
