'P****s me off' - Rocco Mediate angered by LIV Golf 11's decision to sue PGA Tour over suspensions

Rocco Mediate has added his voice to those criticising the LIV Golf 11 who have launched a lawsuit against the PGA Tour. Phil Mickelson and 10 others have filed a lawsuit claiming their suspensions from the PGA Tour were damaging their careers. Ad/> PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan handed down the suspensions after the players signed huge contracts to jump ship to LIV Golf.

GolfMickelson, DeChambeau among group of 11 LIV golfers suing PGA TourYESTERDAY AT 15:39 Those who remain loyal to the PGA Tour have voiced their displeasure with the decision to file the lawsuit. Mediate is not fazed by players leaving for LIV, and can understand why heads have been turned by the huge sums of money on offer, but is upset that they left only to now take the case to court in a bid to play on the PGA Tour as well. «So if you were to have your — I don’t know what kind of tour you would call that tour — go ahead.

Go ahead and have it,” Mediate, arguably most famous for losing a play-off to Tiger Woods at the 2008 US Open, said on the Starter with Taylor Zarzour show on SiriusXM radio. “Just don’t try and destroy what made you. That’s what p****s me off to no end.” /> Greg Norman is the figurehead of LIV Golf, and Mediate is angry about the Australian biting the hand that fed him so well as a player.

“The PGA Tour made Greg Norman, plain and simple,” Mediate said. “If it wasn’t for the PGA Tour, you would never have heard of him. Now that’s no good? I don’t get it.