Rory McIlroy says he would rather 'retire' than play LIV Golf

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Rory McIlroy made a blistering commencement astatine the Scottish Open connected Thursday with a six-under 64

Date: 13-16 July Venue: The Renaissance Club, North Berwick
Coverage: Live substance sum of last 2 rounds connected BBC Sport website and highlights connected BBC Two.

Rory McIlroy says helium would discontinue "if LIV Golf was the past spot to play play connected earth".

The satellite fig 3 was responding to revelations that helium and Tiger Woods could person been offered LIV squad ownership arsenic portion of the PGA Tour's projected merger with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF).

Both players person been vocal critics of the Saudi-backed breakaway LIV tour.

McIlroy says determination is "quite a spot of apathy" surrounding the merger process.

A US Senate sub-committee met connected Tuesday to analyse the woody that ended the ineligible wrangles betwixt the tours aft a twelvemonth of unprecedented disruption pursuing LIV's launch.

Documents from the proceeding besides showed that arsenic good arsenic being offered franchises, McIlroy and Woods would play successful 10 LIV events had they agreed to motion up. Neither connection progressed beyond the treatment stage.

"There wasn't a batch of caller accusation successful determination for me, determination was possibly immoderate caller accusation for different people," said McIlroy astatine the Scottish Open, wherever helium opened with a six-under 64.

"I've astir been excessively adjacent to it implicit the past year, truthful it's bully to beryllium capable to region myself a spot from it.

"If LIV Golf was the past spot to play play connected earth, I would retire. That's however I consciousness astir it. I would play the majors, but I'd beryllium beauteous comfortable."

The Northern Irishman added that players felt "blindsided" erstwhile quality of the daze projected woody broke past month, but says helium has not mislaid spot successful PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, who has been criticised by Xander Schauffele and Jordan Spieth for a deficiency of transparency.

"It's possibly not arsenic superior for maine due to the fact that I benignant of knew what was going on, truthful I wasn't arsenic successful the acheronian arsenic immoderate of the different guys," said McIlroy.

"People felt blindsided by it and I tin evidently recognize wherefore Jordan and Xander and different guys would consciousness that way."

"I've work a punctuation that they [PGA Tour] were negotiating their survival. That's a precise just happening for a concern to do.

"I'm conscionable apathetic towards each the sound astir it. The happening I've realised, nary substance what I bash oregon say, oregon effort to amusement leadership, I'm going to beryllium conscionable fine.

"I've tried to measurement up for possibly the guys that didn't person a dependable aboriginal on, but I deliberation with everything that's transpired implicit the past fewer weeks, the players are going to find themselves much and much astatine the array to effort to get immoderate it is that they privation retired of it."

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