Golfers Respond to ‘Peace’ in the World of Golf: ‘I Feel Betrayed’ | golf

The entire sporting world may have choked over their coffee or tea yesterday when the US PGA Tour, DP World European Tour and Saudi LIV Tour announced that they had buried the hatchet and would become one business entity together in the future.

Phil Mickelson, one of LIV’s most outspoken supporters in the first hour, was of course quick to respond. “Wonderful day today,” he wrote on Twitter.

Bryson DeChambeau, one of the other big names that moved to LIV Golf, could empathize a bit more with his peers on the PGA Tour. “I feel for them because something was said to them and the opposite happened.”

“It kind of stinks that they didn’t necessarily gain anything from this. I hope they find a way to value them the same way we at LIV.”

It is mainly waiting for feedback from players like Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. They presented themselves as opponents of the LIV and saviors of the PGA Tour and, like almost everyone else, were unaware of the new plans.

Therefore, the shock wave will reverberate for a long time, and Jay Monahan, the president of the PGA Tour as well as the future president of the “new golf”, should have already responded to a meeting with players in the run-up to the Canadian match. Opens.

“I have tried to make it clear that this decision is what is best for all members of the PGA Tour. It gives us control and allows us – with a partner like PIF (Saudi Investment Fund) – to be productive in the future. We have come to the conclusion that cooperating was better than fighting against each other.” “.

This explanation made little impression on the players, who did not want to make any official comments after the meeting. On Twitter, some have already spoken out clearly. The way they were supposed to hear the news went wrong.

“Love getting the news on Twitter,” was the sarcastic tweet from Collin Morikawa, a two-time Major Country winner and an advocate on the PGA Tour in recent months.

Mackenzie Hughes: “There’s nothing quite like reading on Twitter that we’re on a tour we said we’d never do.”

Wesley Bryan: “Lovely getting the information through Twitter. This is unbelievable, you guys should be ashamed and you have so much to explain. I feel so betrayed and I won’t be able to trust anyone on the PGA Tour for a very long time.”