Rory McIlroy speaks to the media for the first time following the PGA Tour’s reported merger with LIV Golf. #GolfChannel #GolfToday #LIVGolf #PGATour
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Rory McIlroy feels like ‘a sacrificial lamb’ after PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger | Golf Channel
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He believes what the PGA was selling he lost out on the bag of money
Is all about the money. No respect for the country. 😢
Why does the money have to come from the Saudi’s? For the Saudi’s this is business and a return on investment. If in five years time if their priorities change, like any business they could sell their interest on. Golf then becomes another asset on Wall Street balance sheet.
There are many people who love the game. Why can’t there a be a structure where individuals can personally invest (with appropriate controls) to grow the game for the best interests of the game of golf, not for an investment fund? It’s happened in other sports why not golf?
There better be a plan B because this effectively is the Saudi’s taking over professional men’s golf worldwide and I find it impossible to believe this will not come under regulatory scrutiny in the US, UK, Europe and Asia. Any one of these authorities could kill this deal dead and the game is yet again thrown into flux. This deal is at best ideas on a back of a napkin with critical details missing. Only when the details are formed and agreed will regulatory scrutiny start. The rest of 2023/24 will be spent dealing with the details and don’t let PIF or Monaghan try and convince you otherwise. Rather than creating certainty, somebody on 6/6/23 threw all the balls in the air…… and shouted FORE!
Golf has sold its soul to the Middle Eastern oil wealth. Just like football has & many other sports and business.
I hate LIV too!! Genuinely don't understand how people enjoy it. Ignore the money, funding etc. It's just exhibition golf… Liken it boxing -i'd rather watch two athletes in their prime go for a reccognised world title and leave everything in the ring. If you'd rather watch Floyd Mayweather dance around with some nobody that's up to you, but you can't tell me it's better because of how much £ each fighter makes…
Rory has made him self look gulible and naive! Jay Monahan conviced him to stay and miss out on loads of money. HE hates liv? liv is just the name the whole thing is where the money coming from? ot liv? and now he saying they are in control and make sure the PIF get spent right now? goes to the right places? hmmm the plays ? nothing changes i'm sorry to say rory? it still bad money? that was the problem? also say the plays who have left will pay! will have consequences!!!! and he went dead serious! sorry Jay Monahan is lying to you again it will just fade away and nothing will happen and you said you trust Jay Monahan still? your a idiot! LIV tried to get something going with th PGA Jay Monahangot to big for his boots and said NO! go away so liv splashed the cash and when Jay Monahan knew it was going tits up he did a 180 and shit on rory and everyone else who he told to stay at the PGA and give up the cash pay out! if Jay Monahan was such a good buisness man why did he turn on LIV ? instaed of been nice? try to turn every one again liv and whe it failed he did a 180 and to the cash! and now conviced the dumb sod (rory) that its for the best its liv that bad not the money… we can do good with the money lol he's fed you and the other guys he conviced to say at the PGA a shit sandwich and you guy are eating it and saying please can i have some more!! idiots Jay Monahanis a weasel and just trying to save his own ass and throwing rory and everyone else under the bus and say no no no! rory its a good thing now! forget where the money come from! lol at 14 mins in he said how can we get this money into the game but use it the right way? thats his point????? eeeeerrrrmmmmmm parter up with them (LIV)when they asked all those years ago but the PGA said no! nothing changed apart from the PGA knew they were going to lose in the end and decided the money ok now its liv that bad not the money? and liv is just a name its the money and where it comes from thats bad?? idiots! well on a personal note i like LIV don't give a shit about the money because you can do good with it also saudis interact with the west te more liberal they will get and better there country will become.
The Saudi's BOUGHT the PGA tour… this was no merger 😂😂
This has everything to do with LIV lol, same people, same money. This is a joke. The hypocrisy. Rory has been used as a negotiation pawn
Rory is the biggest full ever. He did not even mentioned LIV, only when it was totally necessary. #comepinga
Hopefully Rory wakes up and realizes he’s just a pawn for the PGA tour.
Imagine the money he lost by not going to LIV? Then they merge? What a puppet.
All the PGA guys saying it’s all about money will not leave the PGA because it’s all about money. How ironic.
Class
Shut up and swing.. PGA did what any business did to survive and pay your checks. Your no businessman Rory !!
My PGA golf-watching days are over. I don't expect anyone to care about that, except for God, who gives me all the time I have
and expects me to use it wisely.
Did Rory say he “held a putt” on Saturday? 😂😂😂
When the ball is putted into the hole, it is considered “holed” not “held” Rory. 🧐😂🏌️♂️
What a legend. He handled himself with great integrity and decorum. Well done you should real leadership.
They all need to wipe the egg off your face
Rory sounds so lost. He hates Liv but wants to control the money. He hates Liv but likes how they do things over there. He wanted to play in Liv and get that money.
Jay took golf from a million dollar industry to a trillion dollar industry. A great decision. Phil was right.
Rory's Ego took a big hit. What did you actually expect they really cared what you thought dummy, 🤣🤣🤣
You were used as a pawn by higher powers , happens everyday in real world so get over it
Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan are rolling over in their graves because of this merger with the murderous Arabs
Always a class act. But to be sure, 280 over water. No, you don't go for it 🙂
Money talks, end of story.
This is hilarious
I feel for you rory and its absolutely disgusting that the pga sold its soul
What incredible poise and professionalism from Rory. Wow! Great player. Very intelligent man. Impressive.
PGA IS DEAD N O W RORY AND TIGER START A NEW LEAGUE !!! Where players have honour integrity and respect
Respect to Rory.
Yeah but you went to bed with the Saudis Jay. Wait how do you go to sleep at night knowing that you did that. I for one will never watch golf ever again. Somebody's got to take a stand at some point in this world and say right is right and wrong is wrong. I'm done. I'll watch the rest of this interview and that's it
OR they had Rory and Tiger FEIGN a patriotic moral stand for the branding and PR for what they ALL were in on, to huge $$$$ pay outs. Rory and Tiger Woods are NOT moral, heroic men in every other area of their lives, so I'd believe a PR stunt before anything else.
Bs pga lost all control because pga is a bunch of greedy bitches who sold their soul's and will coward down to liv
The PGA leadership has officially duck hooked their own association/players and now has to take an "unplayable" lie. But rather than do that, they'll just kick the tour back in the fairway and call it good.
I only wish Bobby Jones could walk this earth for just one day to respond to this insanity.
A very dignified media conference for a courageous player who did his best to fight a losing battle.
pga players who turned down LIV money should sue the pga….pga has weak fields and is boring{yes,top 30 liv guys in fields are better than top 30 in majority pga fields}
My wife and I had British Open tickets. We decided not to go for other reasons. Now this news drops. So happy on our decision. We are going to sit on our back porch and enjoy the wildfire burn here in the east coast. The world is a wonderful place. Lets go Brandon.
Rory talks like he has all the details of how everything will look in the future. He does not. Instead of saying he "hates LIV" he should be thanking LIV as it has already made the PGA tour better and now it will make it even better as a partner. Monahan will probably be fired and the PIF and Yasir Al-Rumayyan will have way more control than Monahan or any PGA tour commissioner as they will control the money. LIV as a tour will not exist in the future but it will bring some aspects of it to the new partnership whether Rory likes it or not.
I'm just not a fan of Rory because he doesn't have an open mind and he is a poor spokesman for the the players because it's a individual person sport 😊
Are all of you who called LIV "blood money" quitting golf because of your morals? 😅