McIlroy talked to Trump on the PGA-LIV agreement, he says New Start needed | Golf news

Last month, Rory McIlroy spoke with President Donald Trump about stopped talks about Golf from PGA Tour-LIV and says that the golfers of top men have to set out injured feelings to start a new beginning.

35-year-old four-time main winner from northern Ireland, who two weeks ago on Pebble Beach on Pebble Beach, who was out with 27. PGA Tour triumph, said he played golf with Trump in early January and felt that Trump supported PGA over Saudi LIV.

“It was really good. I thought we had a good discussion, “McIlroy told the AFP news agency.” I learned that he was not a fan of LIV format. I was like that, but you hosted their events. It was like, yes, but that doesn’t mean I like it. So I think it’s on the side of the tour. “

Several top PGA players attached to raise the LIV Golf from his debut 2022 and quickly banned them from the PGA tour, leaving the main tournaments as the only place where the elite golf men compete against each other.

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investments Fund (PIF), Financiers of LIV, whose governor Yasir al-Rumayyan, and PGA Tour presented the framework investment agreement in June 2023, but have passed the deadline for a final contract with talks that stood .

McIlroy said Trump, who met with PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan last week, can help in agreement.

“President, he can do a lot of things,” McIlroy said. “He has a direct approach to the Yasir boss. There are not many people. Many people cannot say,” I want you to arrange this job and by the way, I talk to your boss, I’ll tell him the same. “

“Several things can do. He can be influential. He adores golf games … I think whenever he says something they listen to and I think it’s a big deal.”

A quick deal could produce one top -notch tour for 2026, McIlroy said.

“I absolutely think that in the ’26 you could reach the point where we play together more often,” McIlroy said.

McIlroy walked with Donald Trump JR on Wednesday in Torrey Pines for PGA Genezicl Invitational in the amount of $ 20 million, moved from Riviera due to January fires in Los Angeles.

“I feel like I’m in good shape, I obviously get off the back of gravel. I’m just trying to roll, “McIlroy said.

McIlroy said the rules were thrown out due to the return of PGA by the LIV player, those who were “injured” on defects must “overcome” it for everyone.

“We’ve all done better of this. Whether you stayed on PGA Tour or you left, we all used,” McIlroy said.

“Everyone had to get over it and we all have to say fine, this is the starting point and we are going forward.

“If people are hurt or their feelings are hurting because the guys have gone or whatever, like who cares? We go ahead.”

Would McIlroy want to see Liva players serve as Captain Ryder Cup? “I would have to be convinced,” he said.

McIlroy said that his richer handbags have been a richer with his arrival to overcome the injury of the original cleft. “Now I make more money than in 2019 and that Liv did not come, I don’t know if I could say that,” McIlroy said.

“I didn’t feel that way at first because of fractures. It was not good for the whole game … For both tours, it’s unsustainable.”

Strategic sports group, a collection of US team owners, has invested $ 1.5 billion at PGA Tour Enterprises, a new company under control of PGA TUR, and is expected to invest the same if the contract is concluded.

McIlroy says investors are looking for a global lineup. “They want to see all the best players compete more often against each other,” he said. “I think they want to own and operate more their own tournaments.

“You probably would like to see how to cross more to the Global Formula One model, but it is very difficult to do.”

LIV Executive Director Excited ‘Probable’ Pif in PGA

Scott O’Neil, only at work as the Liv Golf CEO, believes the optimistic view of the future of his circle.

Liv -ov financial support, PIF, “will probably invest in PGA Tour Enterprises,” O’Neil said.

PGA Tour Enterprises is a profit wing of the PGA tour, which is at the heart of the conversation about a possible merger between rival tours.

“For us in Liv, we hope (PIF connection to PGA Tour Enterprises) will unlock the opportunity,” O’Neil told Reuters in Adelaide, Australia, the scene of LIV Golf this weekend. “This can unlock the opportunity with markets, with courses, with marketing partners, television networks, with the growth of the game, with competition opportunities, with new formats.

“I grew up in New York, if you have not been able to say with my funny accent, and the state motto is” Excelsior “, which effectively means somehow and upwards, and we are very excited about the potential investment with PIF and PGA Tour Enterprises.”

O’Neil, who replaced Grga Greg Gerg Norman this year as executive director Liva Golf, has published a job he has done so far.

“It was a short 40 days here, but in 40 days I saw an agreement on the United States with Fox, the broadcast agreement, I saw an agreement on the United Kingdom with ITV to bring us to the air in the UK,” “he said.” It is the only golf that will be over the air in the UK, I saw our first partnership with Madden. I saw the stars extended. I saw a successful event in Riyadh. I have seen interest from all over the world. We are now aired in 100 countries and territories, over 800 million households.

“Well, I see the momentum. You do not have to look too far from here to feel like we will have the biggest event here in the history of Liv Golf, right here in Adelaida. “

O’Neil praised the job done by his predecessor. “Greg is an icon,” O’Neil said. “He is a friend. He is the reason I have been here today. I spent a lot of time with him in my 30-day leading this role and every day from engaging, asking questions and learning, and I hope he is forever part of LIV.

“We just had a committee meeting last week. Sitting on the board, which is another wonderful testament that we can use his experience, his leadership, friendship and any challenge, at the Committee meeting. I hoped for a friendly (colleague) on the other side of the table, but he mixes him pretty well.

“It is quite a gift to have it as part of LIV. I feel like he is the right person at the right time and I hope that I will be able to endure the giants on the shoulders and move the league forward.”