Lee Westwood criticizes the strategic alliance between DP World Tour and PGA Tour

Lee Westwood, the day after his resignation from the DP World Tour, explained in detail the reasons for his decision to the Daily Telegraph, the very specialized British daily on sport. Heavily emphasizing the evolution of the European Tour which he says is becoming a Tier 2 circuit intended to feed into the PGA Tour…

The old world number, Lee Westwood, is not in the language of wood at this time. In an interview given to Daily Telegraph, published the day after his resignation from DP World Tourat the same time as Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter et Richard Blandhe estimates that ” the reason i quit should be obvious ».

How is it different, the PGA Tour and LIV Golf?

« The way I see it is that as a member of the European Tour I was allowed to be a member of the PGA Tour no problem for all these years. But tell me, how is it different? It’s not because the LIFE Golf is funded by Saudi Arabia, a country where my circuit used to play and where we were encouraged to play? »

Fear of PGA Tour world domination

The hurt is deeper, and Westwood has decided to press where it hurts: ” I’ve been a member of both the European Tour and the PGA Tour, but I’ve always said that I was a member of the European Tour first, and that I feared that the American Tour would do everything that he could to secure world domination. »

The DP World Tour is now a circuit that feeds the PGA Tour

« Today, in my opinion, the European Tour has decided to sleep with the PGA Tour and, even if Keith (Pelley, the CEO of the DP World Tour) hate to hear it, it’s now a circuit that feeds the PGA Tour. There is now a royal road for the ten best players of the European Tour who do not yet benefit from an exemption on the PGA Tour. This was never the policy of the European Tour before this strategic alliance », notes Westwood.

Sorry, I don’t want to play under this type of regime

« Sorry, I don’t want to play under this type of regime. I have always played on theAsian Tour and I was released without problem. But at the end of last year, they told me that I should not participate in theIndonesia Open. No thank you, I don’t want to play that game added the Englishman. The most common estimates point to a $20-30 million signing bonus for him to join LIV Golf from Greg Normanlast year.