{"id":469726,"date":"2023-11-15T06:08:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T10:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=469726"},"modified":"2023-11-15T06:08:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T10:08:16","slug":"mcllroy-steps-down-from-pga-tour-position","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mcllroy-steps-down-from-pga-tour-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Mcllroy steps down from PGA Tour position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory Mcllroy has made a surprising decision to step down from PGA Tour&#8217;s Policy Board.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A shock decision by Rory McIlroy!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBCGolf?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BBCGolf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CGOUdaf5Ec\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CGOUdaf5Ec<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1724727184072355857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The news broke out during player&#8217;s tour issued by commissioner Jay Monahan, who expressed his thankfulness for Mcllroy&#8217;s commitment.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old was seen as one of the strongest oppositions against LIV Golf, which merged with Saudi Arabia funds and was regarded as PGA&#8217;s most prominent figures.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mcllroy admitted that he started to feel like a &#8220;sacrificial lamb&#8221;, following the infamous deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rory&#8217;s resignation letter, which he sent to the full board, clearly stated that the difficult decision was made due to professional and personal commitments,&#8221; Monahan wrote.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy had been part of the tour&#8217;s Player Advisory Council between 2019 and 2021, playing the role of a chairman for the final year of that spell. He then became a player director on the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rory Mcllroy has made a surprising decision to step down from PGA Tour&#8217;s Policy Board. A shock decision by Rory McIlroy!#BBCGolf pic.twitter.com\/CGOUdaf5Ec &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":469727,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16988,17989],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[18616,19402],"acf":{"announce":"An unexpected decision from the Northern Irishman leaves the PGA in shock","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\/469726"}],"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=469726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469728,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469726\/revisions\/469728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469726"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=469726"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=469726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}