Matt Fitzpatrick slams DP World Tour as 'livid' Ryder Cup hero insists they should never have teamed up with PGA Tour

Matt Fitzpatrick says it’s a disgrace that PGA Tour stars were handed spots in the BMW PGA Championship.

Europe’s Ryder Cup hero believes the DP World Tour made a mistake in their tie-up and that football-style promotion and relegation is his dream conclusion to golf's civil war. Fitzpatrick is back to defend his Alfred Dunhill Links title in Scotland. However, the English ace gave his thoughts of the current state of the game during his eve-of-tournament address.

Fitzpatrick, who stated this is the worst year of his golfing career, gave his opinion on the recent Wentworth entry and said: “I don’t think the Tour should have gone with the PGA Tour. I was pretty livid, to be honest, at Wentworth when I found out that there was a handful of PGA Tour players coming to play and, at that point in time, not every person who kept their card last year got in the field, which I think is a disgrace. That’s the Flagship Event. There’s no invites given to European Tour players at THE PLAYERS Championship. So why are we dishing them out for Wentworth? I thought that was absolutely absurd.”

Fitzpatrick gave a broader assessment on the future as he also said: “I think in terms of bringing the game together this week, I’m past the point of caring. I just don’t care. Me saying things to the PGA Tour board, to the DP World Tour board, it’s not going to change, so why am I going to waste my time talking about it.”

On his own thoughts, Fitzpatrick continued: “My idea would be you have basically like a Premier League, Championship, league of golf, whether LIV is the Premier League or PGA Tour is the Premier League, whatever it is, and then you can bring everyone together. And there’s more of a relegation-promotion, you can work your way up.