The CEO at LIV Golf calls Rory McIlroy “Little b****”

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If the mega-golf merger is going to quell the war of words between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, it just hasn’t happened yet. It’s the third day of the new golf reality, and one of the executives at LIV Golf who hasn’t already been named has called Rory McIlroy a “little bitch.”

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In an excerpt from his forthcoming book on epic professional golf, Alan Shipnock reports that executives at LIV Golf are celebrating that they will get the PGA Tour’s top stars now that an agreement has been reached between the tour and the Saudi General Investment Company. .

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“Now we can finally get Hideki (Matsuyama) and John Ram. I would say all the big names on the PGA Tour will get an offer. Except for Rory. No one wants this little bitch on their team,” Schepnack CEO said in an interview. .

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The fictional LIV Golf project of PGA Tour stars that this unnamed CEO floats on is a far cry from the future McIlroy was mapping out in Oakdale for the RBC Canadian Open.

“I think the one thing I think was really misunderstood in the past, was yesterday all the headlines were the PGA Tour with LIV, and LIV has nothing to do with it,” said the golfer. It’s the PGA Tour, and DP World and the Public Investment Fund are mainly involved in creating new business. »

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McIlroy seemed to think that the new reality of golf would involve making LIV Golf just an event in the history of the game, although that was clearly the reason for the seismic change.

“I hate LIV. Like, I hope it goes away, and I totally expect it to,” McIlroy said. “I would say a piece of the golf team still remains. It certainly won’t be, in my opinion, and I hope it won’t, under the auspices of LIV. It’s something the PGA Tour will control, and the PGA Tour will do. Hopefully it’s very different from what LIV did.”.

At LIV Golf, Shipnuck reports that Greg Norman made a phone call to LIV employees, and while many expected the worst, the message was quite the opposite.

“There will be no operational changes in 2023, 2024, 2025 and in the future,” Norman said. “LIV is an independent entity that will continue to move forward. It comes straight from the top.”

The battle for control of golf seems far from over.