Saudi Arabia’s proposed Super Golf League is ‘dead in the water’, insists Rory McIlroy after Bryson DeChambeau and Dustin Johnson became the latest leading players to snub breakaway
- Legendary golfer Tiger Woods has left the door open on a return to the Masters
- Bryson DeChambeau and Dustin Johnson say they’ll stay with the PGA Tour
- It is a significant blow to the Saudis, who had hoped to lure players away
Bryson DeChambeau and Dustin Johnson committed to the PGA Tour yesterday in a bitter double blow to the Saudis that surely ends any threat for now of a credible rival circuit.
Certainly that was Rory McIlroy’s trenchant view after the two Americans that the Saudis wanted to be the leading stars of their proposed Super Golf League joined every other leading player in turning them down.
‘I’d say the whole project is now dead in the water,’ said the Northern Irishman. ‘I mean, who’s left who could go? Who would want to go now? I don’t think they could get 48 guys to fill a field.’
Bryson DeChambeau says he’ll stay with the PGA Tour amid talks of Saudi breakaway league
Northern Irish star Rory McIlroy said that the breakaway league is ‘dead in the water’
Johnson put out a statement through the PGA Tour declaring his loyalty for the status quo. That was followed by a rather more begrudging declaration from DeChambeau through his Twitter account.
‘While there has been a lot of speculation surrounding my support for another tour, I want to make it very clear that as long as the best players in the world are playing the PGA Tour, so will I,’ said DeChambeau.
McIlroy blasted Phil Mickelson, the other high-profile would-be renegade who self-destructed in spectacular…
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