Rory McIlroy will be in action at the DP World Tour’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club from September 19 to 22. He notably finished in a tie for 7th place in the 2023 edition.
This year, the Irishman returns as the highest-ranked golfer in the field. The World No 3 has top-3 finishes in all the three DP World events he participated in.
He is part of a strong field comprising big names like Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry, Billy Horschel and defending champion Ryan Fox.
🤯 Pros Don’t Want Merger? Rory McIlroy believes that half the players on both tours don’t want the PGA-LIV merger to happen.
“Department of Justice. Everyone’s looking out for themselves and their best interests. You know, it would benefit some people for a deal not to get done, but it would obviously benefit some people for a deal to get done.”
Last week, PGA Tour officials flew to New York to meet with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. The two parties are allegedly working on finalizing terms of a deal that would inject more than $1 billion from the PIF into PGA Tour Enterprises, the newly created for-profit entity launched earlier this year.
But the merger just keeps getting delayed.
📍Ryder Cup Captaincy Unlikely For LIV Golfers: McIlroy believes it will be difficult for Ian Poulter or Lee Westwood to be a future Ryder Cup captain because they no longer have a connection with Europe’s emerging stars after defecting to the LIV Golf League.
Players such as Poulter and Westwood would struggle to reintegrate themselves after an unsavory split from the European tour.
McIlroy doesn’t deny that Poulter has the “credentials” to be a Ryder Cup captain, given his passion for the event and past results – but it’s unlikely that he’ll be given the role under present circumstances.
