PGA Tour star Rory McIlroy has been perhaps the biggest advocate of the league as their continued battle against LIV Golf wages on. But now, McIlroy has admitted that he has been perhaps a bit too harsh in his analysis of the Saudi-backed golf league.
Many top golfers including Brooks Koepka, Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau, and Phil Mickelson amongst countless others made the tough decision to leave the PGA Tour in favor of LIV Golf.
As each of them left, McIlroy has been quite open about how he feels that a move to LIV Golf is not best for the future of golf as a whole.
Ahead of the RBC Canadian Open, which begins on Thursday, McIlroy opened up about his public negativity shared towards LIV Golf, admitting that he probably shouldn’t have gotten involved in the drama as he did.
“I think, in hindsight, I wish I hadn’t gotten as deeply involved in it, and I’ve articulated that,” McIlroy explained to reporters. “I hold no grudge, I hold no resentment over the guys that chose to go and play on LIV. Everyone’s got their own decisions to make and everyone is, has the right to make those decisions. My whole thing is I’m just disappointed with what it’s done to, not to the game of golf, the game of golf will be fine, but men’s professional golf and this sort of divide we have at the minute. Hopefully, we’re on a path to sorting that out and getting that to come back together, but in hindsight, I wish I hadn’t gotten as deeply involved as I have.”
This statement notably comes after McIlroy stepped down as a member of the PGA Tour policy board. So clearly, McIlroy is no longer interested in being such a notable spokesperson of the PGA Tour and against LIV Golf.
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Reice Shipley is a staff writer for Comeback Media that graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in Sports Media. He previously worked at Barrett Sports Media and is a fan of all things Syracuse sports.