Rory McIlroy sends message to Ryder Cup chiefs over Saudi rebels

Rory McIlroy has not been lured by LIV Golf’s profitable provide (Image: Getty)

Rory McIlroy believes golf’s Saudi rebels must be allowed to function within the Ryder Cup regardless of their defection.

The Northern Irishman has been an outspoken critic of the LIV Golf Invitational Sequence and, earlier this 12 months, turned down the possibility to affix the breakaway tour for ethical causes.

Nevertheless, plenty of stars together with Dustin Johnson, Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Phil Mickelson have signed as much as the sequence and are set to play in its inaugural event this week.

Each the PGA and DP World Tour have warned that gamers who function in LIV Golf’s occasions face a lifetime ban which might put their Ryder Cup eligibility doubtful.

Forward of the Canadian Open on the PGA Tour, McIlroy stated: ‘Sure, I feel they need to be capable of (function within the Ryder Cup). They’ve been such part of the Ryder Cup and have a look at the historical past Poults (Ian Poulter) has on the Ryder Cup.

‘It might be such a disgrace for him to not be concerned going ahead.

Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood have each signed as much as the Saudi-backed insurgent sequence (Image: Getty)

‘It’s laborious as a result of they're enjoying in defiance of the Tour however I feel everybody must get in a room and determine it out.

‘I really feel just like the skilled recreation was on a pleasant trajectory the place all the pieces was changing into extra cohesive and now it’s changing into extra fractured once more and I don’t suppose that’s factor.’

LIV Golf’s first occasion will get underway on the Centurion Membership in Hertfordshire on Thursday afternoon.

Two-time main champion Dustin Johnson resigned from the PGA Tour on Tuesday (Image: Getty)

The specter of being excluded from the Ryder Cup has not delay the likes of Westwood and Poulter from submitting their entries.

Near £20million in prize cash is accessible in St Albans, with over £3m for the winner. In the meantime, most of the members have obtained enormous signing on charges within the area of £100m.

The figures concerned may have simply enticed McIlroy to affix as much as the brand new tour however the 33-year-old reiterated his intentions to avoid Greg Norman and LIV Golf.

He added: ‘I feel my stance on it has been fairly clear from the beginning. It’s not one thing that I need to take part in. I’m definitely not knocking anybody for going. It’s their life, it’s their choice, they will reside it the way in which they need to.

‘However for me I need to play on the PGA Tour in opposition to the most effective gamers on the planet. Everyone knows why everybody’s enjoying in London this week, it’s boatloads of money and it’s cash up entrance and I get it.

‘I feel they’re pondering very short-term. A few of these guys are youthful than me and have their complete careers forward of them. That’s the factor I don’t get.’

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