LIV rebels chasing ranking points irks Billy Horschel and Jon Rahm

Defending champion Billy Horschel and world number six Jon Rahm have hit out at the LIV Golf players who will contest this week's BMW PGA Championship.

DP World Tour members like Ian Poulter, Sergio Garcia and Lee Westwood are eligible for the event at Wentworth after their suspensions for playing in the inaugural event of the Saudi-backed breakaway were temporarily stayed on appeal.

American Talor Gooch and Mexico’s Abraham Ancer are in the field thanks to being in the world’s top 60, but Horschel believes they are being "hypocritical" in chasing ranking points having never shown any interest in the event before.

"Even though Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter have been stalwarts for the European Tour, I don’t think those guys really should be here," Horschel said.

"It's pretty hypocritical to come over here and play outside LIV when your big thing was to spend more time with family and want to play less golf."

"I honestly don’t think that the American guys who haven’t supported the Tour should be here. Abraham Ancer, Talor Gooch… you’ve never played this tournament, you’ve never supported the DP World Tour. Why are you here?

"You are here for one reason only and that’s to try to get world ranking points because you don’t have it (on LIV Golf).

"It’s hypocritical because of what some of these guys have said when they said they wanted to play less golf. It’s pretty hypocritical to come over here and play outside LIV when your big thing was to spend more time with family and want to play less golf.

"I wouldn’t call Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter hypocrites because they never said they wanted to play less. The guys that have publicly stated they want to play less, those are the hypocrites."

Horschel believes that players were "naive" to