Players have been unsuccessfully asking Rory for years since the PGA Tour’s annual stop in New Orleans became a team event in 2017. Including one fellow major winner in particular.
LIV Golf commissioner Greg Norman has addressed rumours his league offered superstar Rory McIlroy a $A1.3 billion deal ($US850 million) to join the circuit.
McIlroy said he doesn’t know the origin of the rumours, and was careful to note that he didn’t judge anyone who had previously gone to LIV, or might in the future.
According to sources close to the matter, LIV Golf executives have put forth a staggering $850 million offer to entice the world No.2, along with approximately two percent equity stake in the LIV Golf League.
Golf Australia chief executive James Sutherland has encouraged golf’s powerbrokers to consider the idea to award the Australian Open winner an exemption into all four majors, saying it would “elevate our event and our tour”.
Jason Day has been given the ultimate Masters compliment, being grouped with five-time winner Tiger Woods and Max Homa for the opening two rounds at Augusta National.
Rory McIlroy has shed the burden of boardrooms on the PGA Tour to focus on playing golf. Can a freed-up McIlroy finally complete the last leg of the career Grand Slam at Augusta?
It was a quick in-and-out for the author – Monday-through-Wednesday – but still enough time to glean a few tips from the top of the sport that the rest of us can use.
McIlroy cautioned that the current state of affairs, with two entities currently holding very different forms of competition and some players secured by LIV through the late 2020s, will require patience to be worked out.
Assuming you’re not one of those golf fans who are deep in the weeds of which angle whose ball flew over which turtles, here’s a very basic breakdown to get you started.
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