It is known that Rory Mcilroy has been taking a number of sharp U-turns on his opinion in recent years, especially if it relates to the PGA Tour and Liv Golf. He was willing to mention a different position on Wednesday as strong as everyone else.
He does not play PGA Tour champions when he turns 50.
“Absolutely not,” said McIlroy with a smile.
This came during a discussion about how difficult it can be to retire, given the nature of the game with which players can leave when they want. McIlroy would like to retire even if he can still win. “With a bit over in the tank,” he said.
Then someone brought the 50 -year -old circuit and old, and McIlroy pulled the line.
“Look, I have said a lot in my time that I walked back,” he said. “But I don’t suggest playing Champions Tour golf. Something terribly wrong went wrong if I have to compete at the age of 50. “
White House Memories
Adam Scott had no idea when he agreed to become a member of the Player Advisory Council for the first time that would take him to the White House to meet the president.
Scott was in meetings with PGA Tour Commissioner and President Donald Trump on February 4 and February 20, while the Tour tries to reach an agreement with the Saudi backers of Liv Golf.
He was asked what memory he took from the experience.
“It was very quickly clear to me when they set up the Israeli delegation immediately after our meeting – put the Israeli flag and the American flag and prepare that room – that our conversation was quite low in the interest of what happened that day,” he said.
“And really, the president had much more important things to concentrate on,” he said. “And I encouraged him to do that well because of everyone after our meeting.”
Liv with the players
Laurie Canter is a European tour player, a 36-year-old from England who makes his debut in the players’ championship. He distinguishes himself from the other 24 newcomers to the TPC Sawgrass.
He is the first LIV golf player in the most important event of the PGA Tour.
Canter played on the Saudi-supported circuit when it started in 2022 because the first event in the UK was on the road for him. He was an alternative in 2023 and filled again in 2024 in Las Vegas at the beginning of February. He attracted just over $ 5.3 million.
And then he was back to the European tour and played some of his best wave. He won the European Open last year, won in Bahrain to start this year, and his play loss in the South African open enabled him to crack the top 50 in the world ranking to get into the players.
The PGA Tour has a policy that everyone who plays in Liv has to wait a year before he participates in a tournament, and Canter played for the last time a year and a month ago.
“No, I don’t feel like a pioneer,” he said laughing.
What Canter helped was a bad year in 2021. He had a conditional status on the DP World Tour in Europe, which means that when he played a LIV event, he had no problems getting a release of the Tour because he was not eligible for the tournaments that week.
This is a big week for him, because in the top 50 in three weeks he stay in the masters. This will be his first regular PGA Tour event and he would welcome more.
“I think everyone who plays golf,” he said. “Last week (Bay Hill) I looked and where those characteristic events go, if you could play well enough for where you have your world ranking where you have characteristic events and majors … What a year is a golfer to play those golfers for that amount of money. It’s incredible. “
The wallet this week is $ 25 million.
Caddy Ace
JJ Jakovac earned a piece of history on the Players Championship on Wednesday. The Caddy for Collin Morikawa made the first hole-in-one on the island-green 17th hole during the annual Caddy competition.
Jakovac used a pitching -from 131 meters, the ball landed perfectly to catch the slope to the front pen.
This was not a coincidence. Jakovac played in the Palmer Cup in 2004-Hij was housemates with Ryan Moore, for whom he later won Caddied-en two NCAA Division II titles while playing in Cal State-Chico.
The Caddy competition began to honor Tom Watson’s old Caddy and friend, Bruce Edwards, who died in 2004 ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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