RORY: LIV REBELS ARE FULL OF DECEIT
WORLD No.2 Rory McIlroy has labelled the players who have joined the LIV Golf Series “duplicitous” for the way they have handled their breakaway.
Fellow four-time Major winner Brooks Koepka, whose brother Chase played in the opening event at Centurion Club earlier this month, is the next star set to sign up to the Saudi-backed invitational events.
He is expected to play in the second 54-hole, 48-man tournament – which has a prize fund of £20.4million – in Portland, Oregon, next week.
But only a few days ago the 32-year-old, who will be suspended by the PGA Tour as a result of his decision, complained that questions on the topic at Brookline were throwing a “black cloud” over the US Open.
In March former world No.1 Dustin Johnson stressed his full commitment to the PGA Tour only to perform a U-turn three months later and that annoys McIlroy, who is on the tour’s player advisory council.
Asked whether he was surprised by Koepka’s decision, the Northern Irishman said: “Am I surprised? Yes because of what he said previously.
“That’s why I’m surprised at a lot of these guys because they say one thing and then they do another.
“I don’t know if that’s for legal reasons but it’s pretty duplicitous to say one thing and then do another thing.”