BROOKLINE, Mass. — Rory McIlroy took the podium at The Country Club on Tuesday and pondered the future of golf.
“I guess I took a lot of players’ statements at face value; I guess that’s what I got wrong,” said McIlroy, one of the sport’s biggest stars who has become the face of the PGA Tour while a handful of others, including Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Sergio Garcia, have defected to the Saudi-backed alternative, LIV Golf.
“You had people committed to the PGA Tour, and that was from their statements that were put out,” McIlroy continued. “People went back on that, so I guess I took them for face value. I took them at their word, and I was wrong.”
