McIlroy, Thomas back PGA Tour boycott of LIV Golf rebels
Four-time significant victor Rory McIlroy and double cross significant hero Justin Thomas upheld boycotts forced on Thursday by US PGA Tour official Jay Monahan on players leaving for the Saudi-supported LIV Golf series.
After their initial rounds at the current week's US PGA Canadian Open, 6th positioned Thomas and eighth-evaluated McIlroy upheld the choice to suspend 17 players at the LIV Golf opener in Britain from PGA occasions.
"I'm satisfied," Thomas said. "Anyone that is stunned obviously hasn't been paying attention to the message that Jay and everyone has been putting out. They faced that challenge going into it, regardless of whether they thought it was a gamble.
"I have extraordinary conviction and incredible trust in the PGA Tour and where we're proceeding to keep on developing to, and those folks simply won't be a piece of it."
McIlroy, sprinter up at the Masters in April, said Monahan basically authorized enrollment guidelines.
"All he's getting is essentially going done right," McIlroy said. "I feel that most of the participation that are here this week and that haven't proceeded to play somewhere else truly value that.
"I believe he's made the best decision in light of the fact that these folks have defied guidelines and gotten things done beyond the competition guidelines, and thus, there will be ramifications, I presume."
McIlroy, be that as it may, conceded he wanted to watch the LIV Golf occasion.
"No doubt, I think like every other person, I'm charmed and I'm a devotee of golf," he said. "I have many folks around there that I call companions that are playing. Definitely, obviously I'll see it and heads up and see what's going on with all the fight."
LIV Golf's crew design, with such four-man crews as Majesticks and Fireballs, aren't really engaging.
"What are different ones, similar to Iron Heads? I have no clue," McIlroy said. "Surely not going out to purchase any group stock any time soon."
Thomas, who brought home his second PGA Championship last month, said the record wealth presented by the upstart series could tempt more to hop.
"They're clearly tossing such a lot of cash at individuals that it's extremely difficult to turn down," Thomas said.
"It doesn't make any difference what your identity is or what it is, everything has a number. They're arriving at that number for certain individuals and I trust that they don't get others.
"In any case, I think an extremely impressive center gathering of us is truly steady and firm in our situation, and I trust that it remains as such."
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