This week, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and player directors from the tour’s policy board met with Yasir Al-Rumayyan, who runs Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund backing LIV Golf, about a potential deal that could unify professional golf. And it sounds like Rory McIlroy thinks this is a much better step than negotiating with LIV Golf directly.
Recently, Rory McIlroy called out LIV Golf and Commissioner Greg Norman for doing Yasir Al-Rumayyan “a disservice” for the way that they have “represented him.” Though he does not think highly of LIV Golf or Norman, he does seem to think talks with Al-Rumayyan would be productive.
“I think I’ve said this before: I have spent time with Yasir, and the people that have represented him in LIV I think have done him a disservice, so Norman and those guys,” McIlroy said according to ESPN. “I see the two entities, and I think there’s a really big disconnect between PIF and LIV. I think you got PIF over here and LIV are sort of over here doing their own thing. So the closer that we can get to Yasir, PIF and hopefully finalize that investment, I think that will be a really good thing.”
Even though McIlroy is in favor of unifying golf, he has never really changed his negative opinion of LIV Golf or Norman – and these comments are just more evidence of that.
[ESPN]
