Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Rory McIlroy has been one of the more outspoken critics of LIV Golf over the past year as the sport experienced massive division following the departure of big names from the PGA Tour to LIV.
Even now, with the two tours joining forces in a landmark agreement, McIlroy is taking shots at LIV. Rory McIlroy on the fifth hole during the Genesis Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club on July 13, 2023, in the United Kingdom. (Octavio Passos/Getty Images) "If LIV Golf was the last place to play golf on Earth I would retire, that’s how I feel about it," he said Thursday at the Genesis Scottish Open, according to Golf Channel. "I’d play the majors, but I’d be pretty comfortable [not playing]." McIlroy’s statement was in response to the reported proposal by the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) to make McIlroy and Tiger Woods owners of an LIV Golf team, per Golf Channel. TOP GOLF PROS XANDER SCHAUFFELE AND JORDAN SPIETH SAY PGA TOUR COMMISH JAY MONAHAN HAS TO REBUILD TRUST The proposal came to light during Tuesday’s Senate hearings with the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and the tour "quickly rejected" the idea of Woods and McIlroy joining LIV Golf, according to ESPN.
The PGA Tour, PIF and the DP World Tour reached an agreement in June with a goal to "unify the game of golf, on a global basis." Xander Schauffele shakes hands with PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan after the Sentry Tournament of Champions on Jan.
6, 2019, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (Sam Greenwood/Getty Images) The merger came less than a year after PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said any potential truce with the rival Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit was "off the