MIAMI: Rory McIlroy admitted on Tuesday that the PGA Tour’s top golfers were reaping the benefits of the emergence of the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf circuit.
McIlroy, one of the staunchest defenders of the PGA Tour in its bitter feud with LIV over the past year, said the launch of the upstart tour had forced the US-based circuit to innovate.
The Northern Ireland star was speaking ahead of this week’s Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, which will tee off on Thursday without its reigning champion Cam Smith — who has since defected to LIV.
The PGA Tour has responded to emergence of the lucrative…
