The cut up within the males’s recreation between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf League is unsustainable and won’t profit anybody in the long run, Rory McIlroy advised Golf Month-to-month on Tuesday.
The four-time main champion mentioned it was disheartening as a competitor to see the very best golfers play in separate excursions for a lot of the yr.
“There must be a correction. I believe what’s taking place shouldn’t be sustainable proper now, so one thing must occur to attempt to deliver all of it again collectively so we will all transfer ahead so we do not have this division that is kind of ongoing,” McIlroy mentioned.
“They preserve happening these totally different paths and I simply do not see how that advantages anybody in the long term. … I believe [it’s] a disgrace for the general recreation of golf.”
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Though negotiations on a merger between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf are ongoing, McIlroy mentioned it’s nonetheless a distant prospect.
“We’re most likely nonetheless fairly an extended methods from it, however I might hope that sooner or later that we will get there, unify the sport and get the very best gamers again collectively once more,” he added.
Talks between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf have dragged on, and the PGA Tour secured a $3 billion funding cope with a consortium of U.S. sports activities group homeowners referred to as Strategic Sports activities Group (SSG) in January.
The PGA Tour is ready to go it alone with SSG if a cope with LIV Golf can’t be performed, tour commissioner Jay Monahan mentioned final month.
“In the end [LIV Golf] do have a few of the greatest gamers on the planet which might be taking part in some actually good golf,” McIlroy mentioned.
McIlroy will subsequent compete on the Texas Open, which begins Thursday.
