Stroll placed on marriage ceremony for daughter that sparked PGA Tour and Liv Golf deal

The news got here as a shock to loads of golfers, with these within the PGA Tour feeling betrayed by the settlement on condition that they’d resisted the profitable affords to leap ship and be part of the Saudi-backed Liv Golf. Xander Schauffele is amongst these to be sad with the news, on condition that he has made it no secret that he was supplied the chance to maneuver over.

He instructed The Times: “What does loyalty mean these days? I don’t quite know. From a long-term perspective, more money being dumped into the game again is a good thing. The product was always going to be better with the [LIV] golfers we know, the major winners, all included, but trying to put my own emotions and sentiments on the matter aside is going to be hard.

“Yeah, I guess [betrayal] would be the charged word. Irony comes to mind as well. From the messages I’ve had, everybody is taking it a bit personally, which is fair, to an extent. I was definitely left in the dark, like most guys, which is frustrating from the transparency side. I thought we were making some headway in that department, but obviously not, because there wasn’t a whole lot of trust in the first place.”