Duplicitous

Rory McIlroy has labelled the players who have joined the LIV Golf Series "duplicitous" for the way they have handled their breakaway from the PGA Tour.

"We are going down our path, and we are excited about what we have announced today and there is more exciting news to come. "Canada was one of the coolest events that I've been to and it was my first time up there. It is an irrational threat and one not concerned with the return on investment for true growth of the game. I grew up wanting to be on the PGA Tour. I grew up dreaming of playing in these events. I didn't grow up dreaming of playing in the Centurion Club in London or whatever it is - I grew up wanting to play in the Masters. The best competing against the best at historic venues with traditions and meanings and purpose. I would never risk going and losing the opportunity to go back to Augusta every year or to do any of it. He made the decision that's best for him and I'm not going to be one to judge him on that. There's nothing I would want to do right now that would risk having any sort of effects on the way my life is now." The LIV-Saudi golf league is not that. I'm not going to knock him for doing that. Yes, because of what he said previously.

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"Four weeks in a row is pretty rare for me these days. "I definitely feel like a little bit of fatigue setting in. "I don't know if that's for legal reasons or if they can't - I have no idea - but it's pretty duplicitous on their part to say one thing and then do another thing.

World No 2 Rory McIlroy has labelled the players who have joined the LIV Golf Series "duplicitous" for the way they have handled their breakaway.

Hate to be missing one of the best/my favourite events." "Four weeks in a row is pretty rare for me these days. "We are going down our path, and we are excited about what we have announced today and there is more exciting news to come. "There's no understating the impact that Brooks Koepka has had on the game of golf in the last five years. It is an irrational threat and one not concerned with the return on investment for true growth of the game. "I definitely feel like a little bit of fatigue setting in. The best competing against the best at historic venues with traditions and meanings and purpose. "Memorial's a very demanding golf course. "I don’t know if that’s for legal reasons or if they can’t – I have no idea – but it’s pretty duplicitous on their part to say one thing and then do another thing. The LIV-Saudi golf league is not that. Yes, because of what he said previously. "Every player that has left, I have great admiration and respect for the contributions they have made to the PGA Tour. And I think a lot of players have had a hard time making that decision [to leave]."

Rory McIlroy didn't hold back on Wednesday when discussing PGA Tour players who have elected to join the LIV Golf Invitational Series.

"But again you're trying to give playing opportunities and create prize funds for the lower half of the membership, but also by trying to accommodate what the upper half of the membership want as well by saying they want an off season, time away from FedExCup schedule. "So I think having the FedExCup season go to a calendar year, like January to August, I think that would be a pretty good idea," he said. "I'm here at the US Open," he said. "But again, a lot of these fall events are destination events. "I think that's why I'm surprised at a lot of these guys because they say one thing and then they do another, and I don't understand that and I don't know if that's for legal reasons or if they can't -- I have no idea. McIlroy and Koepka were slated to compete this week in the Travelers Championship in Connecticut, however, withdrew from the PGA Tour event on Tuesday. The LIV Golf Series announced Wednesday afternoon that Koepka had joined.

Rory McIlroy described LIV players for "duplicitous" behaviour in a recent press conference.

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It ignores the fact that the players chose to leave for the riches beyond even the pockets of its premier brand. LIV Golf’s admission into the ranking system has yet to be established. The product you see will continue to get stronger. He claimed the restructuring of the schedule loosely in two parts from January to September progressing to the fall series in October to December was always in the pipeline. “The announcement we made today is the PGA Tour committing to be the greatest in the world,” Monahan said. To go now without clearly defined dates for the 2023 calendar speaks of a defensive move as well as whistling in the graveyard.