McIlroy: I’d retire earlier than playing for LIV Golf

If Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund had had its map, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy would maintain partially owned and captained groups in the LIV Golf League once the PGA Tour and DP World Tour joined forces with the just about $800 billion sovereign wealth fund.

It doesn’t sound as if McIlroy, the third-ranked participant on the earth, would maintain been eager.

“If LIV Golf used to be the closing tell to play golf on Earth, I’d retire. That’s how I give it some notion,” McIlroy steered newshounds after the first spherical of the Scottish Initiate on Thursday. “I’d play the majors, nonetheless I’d be pretty satisfied.”

The doable for McIlroy and Woods proudly owning groups used to be presented by PIF advisers for the length of a slideshow presentation to PGA Tour policy board chairman Ed Herlihy and self reliant director Jimmy Dunne, two days after they met April 23-24 with PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan in London.

The slideshow presentation used to be among the many records released by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which held a listening to on the proposed alliance Tuesday.

A PGA Tour legit steered ESPN on Tuesday that the tour quick rejected the inspiration of McIlroy and Woods joining LIV Golf.

The records furthermore included emails that steered that McIlroy met with Al-Rumayyan in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in November. Finally month’s Canadian Initiate, McIlroy said he had previously conducted golf with Al-Rumayyan at a genuine-am in Dubai.

“I used to be with him at a Scheme One journey randomly a pair years ago in Austin,” McIlroy said. “I saw him in Dubai on the conclude of closing one year. So he’s clearly been in and around the golf world and clearly the broader sports world. He runs in the identical circles as a few these that I do know.”