Asked if he was making a conscious effort to sidestep talking about Saudi-funded LIV going forward, McIlroy simply responded, "Yeah."
The four-time major champion from Northern Ireland demurred Tuesday when asked to speculate what professional golf might look like down the road. “I don’t have a crystal ball,” McIlroy said ahead of the 2023 PGA Championship that began Thursday at Oak Hill Country Club.The four-time major champion from Northern Ireland demurred Tuesday when asked to speculate what professional golf might look like down the road.
The white-hot spotlight that followed players from both the PGA and LIV tours to Augusta National in April seems to have cooled a bit. Rahm said he was “the wrong player to talk to” when asked where he sees professional golf down the road. He reiterated he’s “never had any negative feelings toward any player that went over to LIV.”
The qualifier sounded a little strange coming from Rahm, just like the sight of Johnson sporting FootJoy shoes, an Acushnet Holdings GOLF brand, after Adidas ADS ADDYY ended its sponsorship of Johnson in February, part of the fallout of Johnson’s joining LIV.Also: Adidas to start selling $1.2 billion worth of Yeezy shoes to raise money for charity at end of May
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