The rising tension between the PGA Tour and the LIV Golf Series has forced golfers to choose sides and has now fractured at least one friendship.
Mackenzie Salmon and Charles Curtis discuss the massive shake up in the golf world and why the likes of Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson should just be honest why they joined LIV Golf.The rising tension between the PGA Tour and the LIV Golf Series has cratered the golf landscape. It’s forced golfers to choose sides and has now ruined one friendship., Garcia took offense to McIlroy’s comments about LIV Golf and the golfers that decided to defect from the PGA Tour.
"But Rory’s got his own life, and he makes his own choices, the same way that I make mine. I respect his choices, but it seems like he doesn’t respect the ones I make." Garcia was one of the first defectors to join LIV Golf. The upstart league is financed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and has drawn criticism from the golf community. McIlroy"Greg needs to go. He needs to exit stage left," McIlroy said last November."He’s made his mark but I think now is the right time to say you’ve got this thing off the ground but no one’s going to talk unless there’s an adult in the room that can actually try to mend fences.
McIlroy shared with reporters that he was offended with the decision. In January, he also revealed he wouldn’t shake Garcia’s hand if selected to be on the European Ryder Cup team. Both golfers will be in The Masters field in April. The former friends, McIlroy was in Garcia’s 2017 wedding, are now on opposite sides of the LIV Golf-PGA Tour rivalry that drove them apart.
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