‘I DON’T WANT THEM HERE’: Lucas Glover has no interest in playing regularly with LIV Golf defectors

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Lucas Glover has been outspoken on several issues facing professional golf over the past few years.

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Just a few months ago he said he believed that many players do not give up their real drivers to be tested when asked, but rather opt to give a back-up version.

He’s also been strong with comments towards the PGA Tour for making its fields smaller and reducing the number of exempt players each year from 125 to 100.

“It’s terrible,” he said last November. “And then hiding behind pace of play, I think challenges our intelligence. They think we’re stupid.”

Add his most recent thoughts on LIV Golf to the list.

The six-time PGA Tour winner said Tuesday on his SiriusXM PGA Tour radio show that he has little interest in playing regularly against those who left for LIV Golf. Negotiations between the two sides have been at a stalemate recently, according to reports.

“I don’t want to play with them, me personally,” Glover said. “I don’t think they should be back here. I don’t want them here. They made their decision. I don’t blame any of them. They made a decision, I don’t care, but they also went away from this tour and chose to.

“As a PGA Tour player and somebody that dreamed of playing on the PGA Tour, and have poured my heart and soul into this Tour and game for 21 seasons now, I don’t want somebody that chose another path and a path of least, or, less resistance. I don’t want them back here competing and taking part of my pie and these kids’ pie that are trying to make it now.”

The full clip can be heard here:

Glover has a US Open title (2009) to his resume that includes six PGA Tour wins. He’s ranked 46th in the world, up from 50th to start the year, and is 31st in FedEx Cup rankings, meaning he will qualify for the postseason and most certainly will advance to the second event, the BMW Championship.

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Later in the clip, which is circulating on social media, he admitted that he was told to take emotion out of his thoughts but that he’s having a difficult time doing so. He’s also not foolish enough to think that having some of the top LIV players back on a more regular basis – like Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm – won’t help him and the PGA Tour at some point down the road, especially regarding the negotiating of television contracts.

“It would benefit all of us because our TV deal in 2030 would be great,” he said.

But, ultimately, he was left with one big question mark: “Does it behoove us as tour members, who have equity now, to grow our sport by bringing some of those guys back? I’m having a hard time with it.”