Access community guides, golf real estate insights, trusted agent connections, and content built for passionate golfers.<\/a><\/p>\nMcIlroy was the most outspoken opponent of LIV among the pros who remained loyal to the Tour and served on the policy board and as an unofficial spokesperson for the Tour until being blindsided by the June 6, 2023, framework agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which had been the renegade league’s chief backer until removing the purse strings after losing more than $6 billion on the venture.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve kept my position consistent that LIV has never been a good thing for the game. So, and whatever 2.0 looks like, if it even happens, you know, they say they’re trying to be more collaborative and all that. But I, this is, this is the best platform for the top professional golfers in the world,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cYeah, were there some things at the start of LIV that the PGA Tour could have done better? Sure. But I think that, you know, the guys that went, or you look, you think back to the start with, like, say, Phil (Mickelson) was unhappy with some stuff or whatever it was. Like, surely that just warranted a conversation instead of blowing the entire professional game up and doing something else.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I don’t take any personal satisfaction of people like losing jobs. Like, that, that doesn’t, that doesn’t seem right. I’ve always felt like this is the best place to play professional golf. And I’m pretty sure if the PGA Tour were handed 6 billion dollars it would have done a better job with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scheffler, the world No. 1, expressed more of a welcoming approach \u2013 with some sort of punishment applied \u2013 to LIV players who he deemed able to bring added value to the Tour.<\/p>\n
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\u201cGetting the best players competing against each other more often is I think what everybody wants,\u201d he said, noting that it has been harder to determine the rankings when they don\u2019t play as much head-to-head.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we talk about the best players, you know, LIV has a few players that are really good. I think the depth that we have on our Tour is bit unmatched, but I think when you look at the higher levels of LIV Golf there’s definitely some players that would provide a lot of value to the Tour, and guys that I love competing against as well.<\/p>\n
“So I think going forward there obviously has to be, I think, some sort of penalties. What those are, I’ll let [PGA Tour CEO Brian] Rolapp and all those guys figure it out. We have great leadership within the Tour now. But I think having those guys come back and competing with whatever happens with LIV, whether those guys want to leave, I mean, you got to ask them. But I think for me being able to compete against the best players in the world there’s certainly some guys on that Tour that can compete out here and I look forward to the chance to compete with them more often.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Adam Schupak<\/a> is a Golfweek senior writer covering the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Aug. 19, 2026, 2:35 p.m. ET ST. LOUIS \u2014 Rory McIlroy warned that LIV golfers should expect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[58,208,59,1236,1237,16149,1276,1302,65,68,1773,80,193,1239,1011,67,62],"class_list":["post-53169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scottie-scheffler","tag-accessfree","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-sourcegolfweek","tag-sstssportsgolfpga","tag-sstsnpga-tour","tag-tagbmw-championship","tag-tagbryson-dechambeau","tag-tagfedex-cup","tag-taggolf","tag-taginternational-sports-competitions","tag-tagjon-rahm","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagpga-tour","tag-tagrory-mcilroy","tag-tagscottie-scheffler","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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