Rory McIlroy says golf’s best players must compete more as PGA Tour and LIV Golf negotiations continue | Golf News happymamay

Rorre McLeroi believes that the best players in the world need to confront each other at least once a month so that the golf remains “relevant”.

The men’s game remains in the process of repairing a set of divided after the seismic influence of Lev Golf’s arrival in 2022, which has since been charged with the regularity of the best players in the world competing.

LIV GOLF players are still not qualified to compete for the PGA tour as negotiations with the General Investment Fund in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is funded by Lev, Rumble.

While the players are waiting for a decision, Mcilroy insists that the best is better to meet with more hesitation in favor of the game.

“I would like to say that it is more than four, and it may be the case for me that the golf remains in place and takes close assembly, and it should be – like saying that we are trying to go to this around the world, it is a calendar throughout the year.” “It should be once a month if not more.

“I think 12 times a year or maybe higher than that I think it will be a good number.”

PGA Jay Monhman’s tour commissioner said this week that a deal with Saudi PIF will not be accepted if the tour “reduces” the tour, referring to the remaining obstacles in negotiations on a proposed deal.

Monohn suggested that Donald Trump’s involvement could help reunite, after he met the president and ruler PIF Yasir Al -Layan at the White House last month.

While recognizing financial support in the United States, Mcilroy also stressed the importance of golf game as a global sport and called for an increase in the number of prominent tournaments elsewhere in the world.

“I think there is an opportunity to be all over the world.” “I feel that the golf game is not just playing in America. It did not start in America. I played in many other places in the world.

“The main source of the professional golf capital is in America, and therefore the reason why the championships are primarily and the largest championships are in the first place here because of the American companies and the dollars that bring them in the game to finance some of the largest championships in the world.

“But I think there is an opportunity to get some major championships outside America. I think we need greater events in Australia. The Australia Championship has always returned to a very big tournament a day, and I think this could be high with some others.”

Mcilroy returns to TPC Sawgrass this week in search of his second victory after winning one blow before Jim Ferrick in 2019.

The Northern Irish opened in 2025 by winning in Peble Beach Pro-Aam, before getting the seventeenth place in Genesis Invitationalism only in the fifteenth place in Arnold Palmer Invitational at the end of last week. Despite two disappointing finishes, it is still optimistic that his game is in a place where he can.

“It is a good feeling. I would like to say that two players after they were just like the worst that they could be,” he said.

“I finished badly on Sunday at Bay Hill. I finished on Sunday in Tori Pines as well. But the only thing I say is what turns in my position from Tori to Pay Hill was great.

“I have finished, I think, the fifth in the last week’s position, so I see that the rotation was really encouraging. This is something for me to really encourage to go this week, clear, then the next few months.”

Mcilroy reaches the number 2 in the world behind Scottie Scheffler, who sat on 115 weeks and returns to players as a defender of the back.

Sheffler seemed to be largely in connection while staring at a hunt package, where he mastered the art of life cultivated inside and outside the cycle.

“It is one thing to reach the first position in the world, and then staying there.” “I think staying there requires more commitment. I think this is what Scotty is doing well.

“He is very committed to his craft, and he always works. He always tries to improve, and we are all trying to improve to keep up with it.

“I don’t think Scottie is interested in fame at all. You have talked about trying to separate the two parts of yourself and try to be a kind of average person, but also do what we do.

“Sometimes, I struggled at times when I am a bad degree and feel that I am a bad person, shooting a good degree and I feel I am a good person. I think more than any other sport, very difficult to separate both sides.

“But as I said, I think Scotty is doing a really good job in that.”

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