While the circuit is buzzing with rumors about this or that LIV Golf player who would like to backtrack and reimburse the Saudis to return to the PGA Tour, starting perhaps with Brooks Koepka, he is the winner of the last US Open, Matthew Fitzpatrick, who took the floor first to strongly oppose a possible return of the defectors.
Interviewed on the sidelines of Players To Bay Hillwhich starts this Thursday, Matt Fitzpatrick did not do in the language of wood, in the straight line of what had already declared Jay Monahanthe big boss of the PGA Tourlast August, and which he repeated again on Tuesday at a press conference.
“I wouldn’t let that happen. I think it would be incredibly unfair if the PGA Tour let that happen. I would not let return players who left on the LIFE Golf. I would be amazed if the PGA Tour allowed them to come back”said Fitzpatrick on Sky Sportsinterviewed by Jamie Weir.
“I would not let people come back. I think that’s incredibly unfair. I’d be staggered if they did allow them”
Asked Matt Fitzpatrick about players with buyer’s remorse potentially trying to return to the PGA Tour, and the dilemma of Ryder Cup eligibility pic.twitter.com/5trNnczGSj
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“I think if you ask Tiger Woods what he thinks of it, he will say the same thing as me. You can’t drop a circuit where you’ve spent so much time, and where you’ve gotten such results, thinking that the grass is greener elsewhere, and come back like that.” added the best English player of the moment.
OK for defectors in the Ryder Cup!
On the other hand, on the Ryder CupFitzpatrick is of a completely different opinion: The Ryder Cup is really something else, so I wish we could field the 12 best European players, and I hope that I will be part of it. The goal is to win, not to be nice to one or the other, and that’s the essence of golf. »
If LIV Golf players are accepted into the Ryder Cup, Fitzpatrick will have one of his best friends on the tour, Thomas Pieters. The Belgian has just given in to the sirens of Greg Norman to lighten his schedule as a father, but he intends to be at the big meeting from September to Rome, based on its results in the coming months. So it would be with the blessing of “Fitzie”…
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