Golf Tour: The Super Golf League has been turned down by the world’s top players, according to Rory McIlroy, but Adam Scott has stated he is in talks to join the lucrative Saudi-led project.
Prior to this week’s Genesis Invitational at the Riviera Country Club, the 32-year-old Northern Irishman called the ideas a “money grab” and referred to the “not so Super League.”
While McIlroy has stated his viewpoint, he admits that he is curious to see other players would be interested in joining up but believes that it is telling that the top-ranked players have declined.
“I’m not sure whether I’m fascinated, but – well, look, I think I’m curious who would – certainly for the younger boys,” he remarked.
“I can maybe make sense of it for the guys that are getting to the latter stages of their career, for sure. I don’t think that’s what a rival golf league is really – that’s not what they’re going to want, is it? They don’t want some sort of league that’s like a pre-Champions Tour.
“I don’t know – I understand the financial part of it for guys that are later on in their career.
“You look at the people that have already said no, (Jon) Rahm, No 1 in the world, Collin Morikawa, myself. Like you’ve got the top players in the world are saying no, so that has to tell you something.”
2013 Masters champion Scott, on the other hand, indicated that he has discussed joining the potential alternative tour and believes it will benefit professional golfers.
“I think the timetable they’re presenting is quite tempting to probably most players,” the 41-year-old Australian continued, “depending on your golf aspirations.”
“From that standpoint, I would definitely consider it, and from a lifestyle standpoint, certainly.
“Yes, [I’ve had discussions with them], but we’re sworn to confidentiality, just like everyone else.
“I think you can argue both sides of lots of things but, at the end of the day, I think my general feeling on this, at the moment, is that it is only a positive thing for professional golfers that there is interest and money coming into the sport.
“It also somewhat forces the PGA Tour to put money into the professional golfers. We’re seeing that all around the world too, they’ve put money into the European Tour, the LIV Golf Investments has put money into the Asian tour so, at the moment, that’s good for strengthening the professional game.
“How everything else pans out, I don’t know but I think it’s good that these things are happening for golf professionals.”
McIlroy will make his first PGA Tour appearance since October at the Riviera Country Club, and he says he wants to improve his consistency in 2022.
“I think I just need more consistency,” world No. 5 stated. “I don’t have to go back that far; I think I had 19 top-10 finishes in 24 starts or something like that in 2019.” I believe it’s just a matter of consistency, and I’d like to reclaim that degree of consistency.
“I think if you do that and you play to that level week in, week out, you’re inevitably going to give yourself chances to win golf tournaments, whether it be regular tour events or majors or anything else. That’s what I’m looking to improve on going forward.”
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