{"id":439741,"date":"2023-07-14T04:26:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T08:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439741"},"modified":"2023-07-14T04:26:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T08:26:35","slug":"mcllroy-would-rather-retire-than-play-liv-golf","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mcllroy-would-rather-retire-than-play-liv-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Mcllroy would rather retire than play LIV Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory Mcllroy shared his feelings towards the infamous franchise merge between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour by saying he would retire &#8220;if LIV Golf was the last place to play golf on earth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rory McIlroy didn&#39;t hold back when asked about LIV Golf \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p7b1CnOjDT\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/p7b1CnOjDT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pPTPHnbZp2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pPTPHnbZp2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/1679542293445894151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The comment comes as a response to the rumors that he and Tiger Woods could have been offered LIV team ownership as part of the PGA Tour&#8217;s proposed merger with Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund (PIF).<\/p>\n<p>Both players, however, have been openly critical not only of the idea, but the whole merge in general.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There wasn&#8217;t a lot of new information in there for me, there was maybe some new information for other people,&#8221; said McIlroy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve almost been too close to it over the last year, so it&#8217;s nice to be able to distance myself a bit from it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If LIV Golf was the last place to play golf on earth, I would retire. That&#8217;s how I feel about it. I would play the majors, but I&#8217;d be pretty comfortable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rory Mcllroy shared his feelings towards the infamous franchise merge between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour by saying he would retire &#8220;if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17867,17989],"news_category":[16713,20292],"gn_keywords":[18615,19402],"acf":{"announce":"The 34-year-old made his position about the franchise abundantly clear","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439741"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439741"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}