Scottie Scheffler shades LIV golfers as PGA talks drag on: Im still here

As partnership talks between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf drag on, Scottie Scheffler is putting the onus on those who defected to the Saudi-backed league that began three years ago.“I have said it a few times this year.If you want to figure out what’s going to happen in the game of golf, go to the other tour and ask those guys,” Scheffler, fresh off his PGA Championship victory, said Wednesday ahead of the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in his backyard of Fort Worth.“I’m still here playing the PGA Tour.

We had a tour where we all played together, and the guys that left, it’s their responsibility I think to bring the tours back together.Go see where they’re playing this week and ask them.”Scheffler’s pointed comments signals he was aware that LIV Golf is not holding an event this week and won’t tee up again for two more weeks, when they’ll play at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia.Nearly two years ago, the PGA Tour announced it would be merging with LIV Golf, with the Saudi Public Investment Fund pumping money into the combined tour.But that hasn’t materialized, and discussions about the tours working together so that tournaments can have fields featuring all of the best players in the world have lingered.Scheffler, 28, captured his third major championship on Sunday at Quail Hollow as LIV golfers Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm crumbled down the stretch.The Dallas native, who has 15 PGA Tour wins, was asked Wednesday whether he thinks his results would be different if he had been playing in fields featuring LIV Golf players.“Who knows? I only get to compete against those guys four times a year.

That was their choice; not mine,” Scheffler said.“At the end of the day I’m here competing and doing the best I can, and that kind of stuff, what’s the point of me thinking about, you know? There’s really absolutely no point to that.“We get four chances to compete against them.Last week went well.

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