Patrick Reed has hit out at Rory McIlroy, branding the Northern Irishman's comments about LIV Golf rebels "insulting". Since the idea was first proposed, McIlroy has spoken strongly against LIV, and this week at the BMW PGA Championship has proved no different.
Joining the FedEx Cup champion in the field is a whole host of Saudi defectors, as 18 LIV players - including Reed - have made a controversial return to the DP World Tour to play at Wentworth. Speaking earlier in the week, McIlroy admitted that he felt LIV Golf members should not have been allowed to compete in Surrey.
He said: "They shouldn’t be here, but again that’s just my opinion. But we are all going to tee it up on the 1st tee [Thursday] and we are all going to go play 72 holes, which is a novelty for them at this point, and then we’ll go from there.”
