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.
Matt Fitzpatrick, statementsAsked on the sidelines of the Players at Bay Hill, which begins this Thursday, Matt Fitzpatrick did not do so in the language of wood, in line with what Jay Monahan, the big boss of the PGA Tour, had already declared in August last, 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 for LIV Golf. I would be amazed if the PGA Tour allowed them to come back,” Fitzpatrick told Sky Sports when asked by Jamie Weir.
“I think if you ask Tiger Woods what he thinks about 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 achieved such results, thinking that the grass is greener elsewhere, and come back like this, "added the best English player of the moment.
On the other hand, on the Ryder Cup, Fitzpatrick is of a completely different opinion: "The Ryder Cup is really something else, so I wish that we could align 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 is the essence of golf".
If LIV Golf players are accepted into the Ryder Cup, Fitzpatrick will be able to count on 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 in September in Rome, based on his results in the coming months. So it would be with the blessing of “Fitzie”.
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