Rory McIlroy and Patrick Reed incident in Dubai escalates

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Rory McIlroy says Patrick Reed is not "living successful reality" aft the American tried to chat with him successful Dubai contempt his lawyers serving the satellite fig 1 a tribunal summons connected Christmas Eve.

McIlroy admitted ignoring Reed connected the scope earlier the Dubai Desert Classic.

Reed says helium threw a tee towards McIlroy due to the fact that "if you're going to enactment similar an immature small kid past you mightiness arsenic good beryllium treated similar one".

"Patrick came up to accidental hello. I didn't truly privation him to," McIlroy said.

McIlroy, who is preparing for his archetypal tourney of the year, added: "I didn't spot a tee. I didn't consciousness a tee.

"Obviously idiosyncratic other saw that. But it's decidedly a tempest successful a teacup. I can't judge it's really turned into a story."

It is the latest enactment successful golf's progressively fractious civilian warfare betwixt the caller LIV Golf bid and the DP World Tour and PGA Tour.

Reed, who bushed McIlroy to triumph the Masters successful 2018 and with whom helium had an epic Ryder Cup lucifer successful 2016, is present a subordinate of Saudi Arabian-funded LIV Golf.

McIlroy, who is simply a subordinate manager connected the tour's Player Advisory Council, explained wherefore helium rejected Reed's effort to onslaught up a conversation.

"I was subpoenaed by his lawyer connected Christmas Eve," said the Northern Irishman, who has been called arsenic a witnesser successful Reed's defamation lawsuit against the PGA Tour among others.

"So, trying to person a bully clip with my household and idiosyncratic shows up connected your doorstep and delivers that, you're not going to instrumentality that well.

"I'm surviving successful reality, I don't cognize wherever he's living. If I were successful his shoes, I wouldn't expect a hullo oregon a handshake."

Reed says the witnesser summons was not instigated by him and that his LIV engagement is the crushed McIlroy snubbed him.

"We've had immoderate large battles and our relationship has been beauteous bully up until evidently joining LIV," said Reed, who is present ranked 90th successful the world.

"I walked implicit and wished Harry (Diamond, McIlroy's caddie) Happy New Year and past Rory due to the fact that it is the archetypal clip I person seen them.

"Harry shook my manus and Rory conscionable looked down determination and was messing with his Trackman (device) and decided to disregard me. He saw maine and helium decided not to react.

"We each cognize wherever it came from - being portion of LIV. Since my tees are Team Aces LIV tees I flicked him one. It was benignant of a comic changeable back. Funny however a tiny small flick has turned into fundamentally maine stabbing him and throwing a tee astatine him."

McIlroy, who has been an outspoken professional of the breakaway LIV series, besides believes beingness is becoming much hard for its commissioner and main enforcement Greg Norman.

Three executives person near the LIV set-up successful caller weeks and the four-time large champion said: "If the main enforcement doesn't person an enforcement team, I don't cognize however beardown that is.

"I mean, helium can't bash it himself. He needs to trust connected a squad conscionable similar each of america trust connected teams to bash things.

"If you're benignant of operating solo, it starts to get beauteous difficult."

McIlroy called for Norman to "exit signifier left" past November, saying determination needed to beryllium "an big successful the room" for bid negotiations betwixt the PGA Tour and LIV to instrumentality place.

Both parties are progressive successful an anti-trust lawsuit that is not scheduled to beryllium heard until January adjacent year.

McIlroy's comments astir Norman were echoed by Tiger Woods, who said: "There is an accidental retired determination if some organisations enactment a enactment connected their litigation.

"That's the problem. There is nary willingness to negociate if you person litigation against you. I deliberation Greg has to spell archetypal of all."

Norman has subsequently branded 15-time large champion Woods a "mouthpiece of the PGA Tour", adding: "Unfortunately helium made a remark that helium doesn't cognize the facts about, due to the fact that evidently I'm inactive here."

The two-time major-winner is present successful sole complaint of the LIV operation, pursuing the departure of Majed Al-Sorour from his presumption arsenic LIV Golf's managing director.

Al Sorour, CEO of the Golf Saudi Federation, is an advisor to Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and a manager of Newcastle United.

The civilian warfare that beset men's nonrecreational play passim overmuch of 2022 shows small motion of abating.

Separate ineligible proceedings involving the European-based DP World Tour and 13 LIV players is scheduled to instrumentality spot successful London from 6 to 10 February.

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