Rory McIlroy informed to ‘f*** off’ in livid PGA assembly after Tiger Woods snubbed
The news of a merger being agreed with fierce rivals LIV Golf and the PGA Tour took each followers and gamers abruptly. The deal, which has been signed by each events, follows an ongoing fued and authorized battle between the 2 which has now been squashed. While the merger has been welcomed by LIV Golf member Phil Mickelson, rival gamers Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy have been left blindsided by the news. Both gamers have been publicly outspoken in opposition to the Saudi-backed Tour in latest months.
It has since emerged that each Woods and McIlroy weren’t briefed in regards to the merger. Both gamers have beforehand supplied eye-watering sums to modify allegiances however have stood agency of their determination to remain loyal to the PGA but had been snubbed from being up to date on developments behind the scenes.
While neither participant has publicly commented on the news, McIlroy reportedly made his emotions clear in a latest assembly organised by PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan. The commissioner hosted a gamers’ assembly on the Canadian Open to debate the news.
During the assembly on the Canadian Open an nameless participant informed Golf Channel: “He [McIlroy] only responded to Grayson (Murray) when Grayson was going off on tangents, outbursts, saying like, ‘We don’t trust you, Jay! You should resign right now! You lied to our face!’
“I forget exactly what led to this, but Rory goes, ‘Just play better, Grayson,’ and that got a bad response from the crowd.” The report claims ‘two sources’ heard fellow golfer Murray reply to McIlroy’s feedback by telling him to ‘f*** off’.
PGA Tour participant Wes Bryan later stated on Twitter: “They were cordial and pleasant post meeting. We chatted as a group of players and we were laughing about the comment. No beef or hard feelings either way”.
Monahan, who has been on of the most important critics of LIV Golf, has since made a change of coronary heart following the announcement. In a letter to PGA Tour members, which has gone viral on social media, he says: “Today is a momentous day for your organisation and the game of golf as a whole.”
Speaking to the media, Monahan was then requested if he regretted not talking with gamers like Woods and McIlroy earlier than signing the deal, he stated: “Listen, again, what we’ve agreed to here is a framework agreement, and the binding elements are tied to the litigation. A lot of these details we’ve got to work through.
“If we had announced a definitive agreement this morning and I was calling them in the morning and I had made commitments on behalf of the PGA Tour and not had an opportunity to fully vet them with our policy board and with those two individuals in a larger group, then that would be a complete miss on my part, and I recognise that.
“But this was us reaching a framework agreement. We think it’s the right agreement. Obviously Tiger and Rory’s perspective is one that I understand very well, and it was part of my thinking throughout these conversations, and it will be a part of my thinking going forward.
“Now that we’re in a framework agreement, I look forward to talking to all of our players, including the two of them, to make certain that this comes off the right way.”