Shane Lowry refuses to slam PGA Tour bosses over Rahm’s LIV Golf defection
Shane Lowry admits he wasn’t surprised to see Jon Rahm defect to LIV Golf, but he refuses to follow Viktor Hovland’s tack and slam the PGA Tour leadership for “arrogance” in their handling of the civil war with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
Confirming he will be at Royal County Down next year as the Irish Open is sponsored by Amgen following their recent $27.8 billion takeover over Horizon Therapeutics, the world number 39 said he’s not surprised by anything that happens in the game since the PIF started aggressively investing in golf.
Shane Lowry admits he wasn’t surprised to see John Ram defect to live golf but he refuses to follow Victor hen’s Tack and slam the PGA Tour leadership for arrogance in their handling of the civil war with Saudi Arabia’s public investment fund confirming he will be at
Royal County down next year as the Irish open is sponsored by am genen following their recent 27.8 billion takeover over Horizon Therapeutics the world number 30 9 said he’s not surprised by anything that happens in the game since the piff started aggressively investing in golf there were a lot of rumors the previous
Weeks and there’s a lot of chat amongst players my friends Rory and the lads low said of rams about turn on live golf and his signing for figures of between $300 and $550 million obviously there’s no smoke without fire so we all thought he must be going I’m not surprised because I’m not
Surprised with anything at the minute but yeah it is what it is it’s just mad to think that we’re not going to be playing against John Ram until the Masters he’s not going to be rocking up to Riviera the players Bay Hill all the big tournaments on the PGA tour it’s
Just mad to think that look it is what it is I am just hopeful that it all irons itself out soon and we are back together playing soon I don’t know when that will be but hopefully soon Lowry’s Ryder Cup teammate havland last week scotched rumors he was contemplating a
Move to live golf but the Norwegian fired a shot across the boughs of the PGA Tours top brass for their handling of the live golf threat and the June 6th merger announcement which came without input from the players it must be fair to say that the PGA Tour has done a damn
Bad job havland 26 told to discoveries for podcast it would be a bit silly to criticize players for leaving I understand why he Ram left there’s a lot of money they are not professional golfers after all there is a great deal of arrogance behind it all Lowry who was
One of many players Liv tried to sign admits the situation was dispiriting at first but he draws the line at criticizing PGA Tour commissioner J manahan or board members such as Jimmy dunnn and Ed hury who were key players in the June 6th announcement of a framework agreement with Liv golf for a
Merger and the creation of a commercial entity to unite the game I make a great living doing what we do playing the game I love for a living and I’m not going to sit here and criticize the guys in charge of the game because I’m very
Fortunate to have the life I have Lowry said do I think they’ve been amazing no probably not but I’m not going to criticize them because I think they couldn’t foresee this coming it was something that just happened I don’t really know a lot of players have a lot
Of opinions on the leadership of the tour but I don’t consider myself clever enough to be able to comment on running a billion dooll organization
