Using record chase excuse, PGA Tour’s Rory Mcllroy goes after LIV golf CEO Greg Norman AGAIN
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PGA Tour’s multiple major-winning player Rory Mcllroy has been outspoken with his criticism of LIV golf and has maintained that he won’t be joining the Saudi-backed rebel league anytime in the future. However, he has been open with his stance of allowing golfers from the league to play in major tournaments.
Recently, Mcllroy reignited his long-time feud with LIV golf chairman and former World No.1 Greg Norman by referring to the record of 331 weeks at the top that the Australian still holds. Mcllroy was previously World No.1 for a total of 106 weeks and has a chance to return to the top spot once again if he does well at this week’s CJ Cup tournament.
When asked by reporters about his sights at the top spot, Mcllroy replied: “332 [weeks]. I don’t know if I can, but that’s a number in my head. To get to No 1 in the world at whatever you do is an unbelievable accolade and something that you should be proud of.”
The feud dates back to this year’s Canadian Open when Mcllroy suggested he was chasing targets just to bring down PGA’s rival Norman. Current No. 1 seed had won his 21st PGA Tour title in Toronto when he said: “I had [the] extra motivation of what’s going on across the pond. The guy that’s spearheading that tour [Norman] has 20 wins on the PGA Tour. I was tied with him and I wanted to get one ahead of him.”
Norman had later shot back by suggesting he had many more records that Mcllroy was still afar from. “I take it as a compliment that Rory wanted to beat my 20 PGA Tour wins. His next goal should be to win more than 91 tournaments globally or to maintain No 1 in the world for more than 331 weeks,” said Norman.
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Greg Norman even went on to call Rory Mcllroy a hypocrite judging his choices
Norman recently hit out at Rory Mcllroy by calling him a “hypocrite” saying he should respect other players’ choices, especially when he himself left the European Tour to play the PGA Tour for more money.
“You have the right to make your decision. Remember, Rory started on the European tour. Then Rory decided to leave the European tour to go play where all the money is, where I went to play, to the PGA Tour,” Norman told TV host Piers Morgan on his show.
Players who have vowed their allegiance to one of LIV or PGA are not allowed to switch sides and are currently banned from either one of the two prominent golfing governing bodies. Multiple court cases are also currently under proceedings for solving this crisis.
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