Rory McIlroy condemns LIV Golf for 'ripping the sport aside' after extraordinary Tour Championship victory

"However there's sure instances the place issues simply must be executed and you must put your self on the market to face up for what you imagine in. And I really feel like that is what I've executed this 12 months and I will proceed to maintain doing that, however on the identical time nonetheless attempt to be one of the best participant on the planet.

"So I am sporting loads of totally different hats on the minute, however I really feel like I will deal with all of it fairly properly in the intervening time."

Many high-profile gamers have left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf -- together with main winners Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka -- enticed by $250 million in whole prize cash and an try to reform the PGA Tour.

They've confronted criticism from fellow gamers for abandoning golf's traditions and accepting cash from a rustic which has been extensively condemned by human rights teams.

'A tough one for me to abdomen'

In response to the existential risk of LIV Golf, the PGA Tour has suspended anybody who has joined the breakaway sequence.

On the DP World Tour -- previously the European Tour -- nevertheless, the preliminary superb and suspension for 3 occasions handed to the LIV Golf gamers was quickly blocked by a UK arbiter, and so at subsequent month's BMW PGA Championship, McIlroy will face off towards gamers who are actually part of LIV Golf.

"It is a exhausting one for me to abdomen the truth that I'm going over to play an occasion and 18 of these guys are going to be taking part in in the identical area," McIlroy stated.

"I do not like that, that is not one thing that I actually need to be any a part of, however for me, simply as dedicated as I'm to the PGA Tour, I need to make that dedication to the DP World Tour as properly."

The eligibility of European LIV Golf gamers to compete within the Ryder Cup remains to be the topic of authorized disputes whereas the American LIV Golf gamers are unlikely to take part as they can't accumulate the required qualification factors from the PGA Tour from which they're suspended.

Since LIV Golf gamers can at present compete on the DP World Tour, they're able to accumulate the qualification factors required to symbolize Europe on the Ryder Cup, an element additionally prompting McIlroy to compete in these upcoming European occasions.

Requested if the LIV golfers ought to be allowed to play within the Ryder Cup, McIlroy informed Muricas News, "No, if I had my means, no.

"I need to help [Luke Donald] as a captain. And so, I am making an attempt to do issues all for the proper causes and people 18 guys over there have executed issues that I do not agree with. And it is a disgrace that it is come so far."