Viktor Hovland has fired a warning to the PGA Tour saying the organisation is doing a nasty job, however the Norwegian says he is not going to be defecting to the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf
World quantity 4 Hovland joined a refrain of discontent in regards to the energy battle on the prime of the lads’s sport between LIV Golf and the PGA and DP World Excursions.
“It have to be truthful to say that the PGA Tour has performed a rattling dangerous job,” the 26-year-old Hovland, a part of Europe’s victorious Ryder Cup crew, advised Discovery’s “FORE!” podcast.
After a yr of acrimony wherein a succession of massive names jumped ship, the PGA Tour and Europe-based DP World Tour introduced in June a framework settlement with LIV Golf for a merger and creation of a industrial entity to unite the sport.
As a part of the deal, Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund (PIF), which has bank-rolled LIV Golf, would function the unique investor.
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The deadline for talks with PIF is looming and the established excursions suffered a contemporary blow this month when Masters champion Jon Rahm made a U-turn to hitch LIV Golf in a deal value a reported $300 million.
“It might be a bit foolish to criticise gamers for leaving,” Hovland mentioned. “I perceive why he (Rahm) left. There’s some huge cash.”
Requested if he would observe Rahm, Hovland mentioned: “No, I doubt it.” However he took purpose at Tour chiefs he mentioned weren’t making choices in the very best pursuits of the gamers.
“They aren’t skilled golfers in any case,” he mentioned. “There may be a substantial amount of conceitedness behind all of it.”
Hovland, the FedEx champion, mentioned he would play fewer European occasions in 2024, including: “The PGA Tour shouldn’t be as robust as earlier than. I simply hope that it’ll return to normality.”