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Top-ranked PGA Tour player Will Zalatoris shut down rumors last month that he would defect to the rival LIV Golf league and on Tuesday he doubled down, calling it the "best tour."
The 25-year-old golfer, who has yet to win on the Tour but finished second at this year’s PGA Championship and U.S. Open, spoke openly about his feelings toward the tension between the two circuits.
Will Zalatoris watches his shot during the final round of the U.S. Open, June 19, 2022, in Brookline, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
"I’m a Player Advisory Council member, so we talk about it internally a lot," he said Tuesday, via USA Today. "It’s a wild time for the PGA Tour and I guess golf as a whole, but the changes that I think are going to happen and everything that’s going to come down the road is only going to make us stronger."
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Zalatoris, who is a favorite at this week’s Rocket Mortgage Classic, didn’t seem too concerned with the effects LIV Golf might have on the PGA Tour, despite its ability to pull in the sports' top talent with its lucrative signing bonuses and purse sizes.
Will Zalatoris reacts after missing a putt during the final round of the U.S. Open, June 19, 2022, in Brookline, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
"And we are the best tour. Every week we’re playing the best courses on the planet… I just think that just let time come and let everything kind of settle and it will be very clear, but right now with all the changes and how everything has been just so wild and a lot of hearsay, I think that we just need to let the dust settle if you
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