Rory McIlroy sounded off on LIV Golf at the Scottish Open. The Saudi-backed league once proposed that the PGA Tour loyalist become an owner of LIV teams.
was the last place to play golf on Earth, I would retire. That’s how I feel about it,” the former World No. 1 golfer told reporters Thursday after the first round of the Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Scotland. “I’d play the majors. I’d be pretty comfortable.”The PGA Tour has essentially let Saudi Arabia, known for human rights violations, buy professional golf competition, columnist Bill Plaschke writes.
McIlroy was responding to a question regarding an April document titled, “The Best of Both Worlds,” which was provided to Congress ahead of a Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday on the agreement between the two tours. The document contained a number of proposals meant to help end the feuding between the tours., another one of LIV’s biggest detractors.
“LIV is proposing that Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods would own teams and play in at least 10 LIV events,” the document reads. “This and the participation of other leading players is subject to further discussions.”The merger of LIV Golf and PGA Tour shows the lure of sports to launder a country’s reputation, in this case, Saudi Arabia and its human-rights abuses.
Another proposal in the document was for Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of LIV parent company Public Investment Fund, to receive a membership at Augusta National, home of the Masters. Under the agreement that was reached by the PGA Tour and LIV, Al-Rumayyan would head the board of directors of the new company that combines the tours’ assets.The agreement has yet to be approved by the PGA Tour’s policy board, and details are still sketchy on what exactly will happen after that.
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