Rory McIlroy’s comments about LIV golf, Anthony Kim’s professional return and Talor Gooch’s viral interview about the majors all feature in a bumper edition of the Sky Sports Golf Podcast.
Henni Koyack and Zane Scotland join regular host Josh Antman to look at the big talking points in the game and preview another action-packed week in the golfing calendar.
The panel reacted by criticizing Gooch for the lack of major exemptions offered to LIV golfers, where he claimed that the winner of the Masters would need an asterisk next to their name due to the absence of some players.
McIlroy was asked to respond to Gooch’s comments before the Cognizant Classic, as well as rumors of him ever joining LIV Golf, with the podcast looking at what the future of golf might hold for the four-time major. For the champions.
“I think, at some point, let’s say in five years’ time or 10 years’ time, we’re going to mix everything up,” Quick told the Sky Sports Golf Podcast. “Whether it’s in the form of LIV or the PGA Tour and PIF merger creates another tour with a different name in a different format, who knows.
“If you’re being silly, then yes.” [McIlroy] Will, at some point, if he continues to play golf on the PGA Tour, for a tour created by the PIF or in conjunction with or affiliated with it – which is basically the LIV.
“When will that merger happen and what will it look like? Will it be a different tour with a different format? Will it be LIV? Will it be something else? There are so many questions we don’t know.
“I think Rory has been put in a very difficult position. In the beginning, he was hired as a spokesperson to go to war for the PGA Tour to fight against PAF and LIV and the Saudis.
“He put himself in that position because he believed he was fighting for this cause and that’s why he made some tough comments, because they were essentially coming together in this fight.” have come together.
“That’s my long way of saying yes he will at some point, but who knows what it will look like. He’s just been put in a really tough spot from a PR standpoint, when the PGA Tour Finals U- The turn. McIlroy had to do it slowly because of the position he was put in.
The podcast looks back at some of the highlights and lowlights from the late-season finish at PGA National, where Thomas Dieter experienced a nightmare six-footer, and Kim’s return to professional golf at the LIV Golf event in Saudi Arabia. review
There’s also a look ahead to the International Women’s Day event at the Belfry and a preview of this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational, with some mixed reviews of how the PGA Tour’s signature event has fared so far this season.
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