McIlroy: I’d retire before playing for LIV Golf

If Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund had had its approach, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy would have partially owned and captained groups within the LIV Golf League as soon as the PGA Tour and DP World Tour joined forces with the almost $800 billion sovereign wealth fund.

It does not sound as if McIlroy, the third-ranked participant on the earth, would have been .

“If LIV Golf was the final place to play golf on Earth, I might retire. That is how I really feel about it,” McIlroy informed reporters after the primary spherical of the Scottish Open on Thursday. “I would play the majors, however I would be fairly snug.”

The opportunity of McIlroy and Woods proudly owning groups was launched by PIF advisers throughout a slideshow presentation to PGA Tour coverage board chairman Ed Herlihy and impartial director Jimmy Dunne, two days after they met April 23-24 with PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan in London.

The slideshow presentation was among the many data launched by the U.S. Senate Everlasting Subcommittee on Investigations, which held a listening to on the proposed alliance Tuesday.

A PGA Tour official informed ESPN on Tuesday that the tour shortly rejected the thought of McIlroy and Woods becoming a member of LIV Golf.

The data additionally included emails that steered that McIlroy met with Al-Rumayyan in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in November. Eventually month’s Canadian Open, McIlroy mentioned he had beforehand performed golf with Al-Rumayyan at a pro-am in Dubai.

“I used to be with him at a System One race randomly a pair years in the past in Austin,” McIlroy mentioned. “I noticed him in Dubai on the finish of final 12 months. So he is clearly been in and across the golf world and clearly the broader sports activities world. He runs in the identical circles as lots of people that I do know.”