Collin Morikawa has denied he intends to hitch the LIV Golf Sequence after reports emerged on Tuesday linking the reigning Originate champion and one more high-profile player, Brooks Koepka, to the Saudi-backed league.
“Closing week at my press conference, I mentioned the media loves creating drama. Decided ample, I awoke this morning to each person pondering I’m subsequent. Now to no longer claim I suggested you so nonetheless … I suggested you so,” Morikawa wrote on Twitter.
“To mutter for the account, all but again, you all are absolutely immoral. I’ve mentioned it since February at Riviera that I’m right here to carry on the @PGATOUR and nothing has changed. Now whereas you happen to’ll excuse me, I’ve got some cereal to pour in my milk.”
A entire lot of high-profile gamers, such as Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Sergio García secure joined the LIV Sequence, which has advance below criticism as a consequence of Saudi Arabia’s historical previous of human rights abuses. Nonetheless, as but no player on this planet high 15 has determined to hitch the opponents. The PGA Tour has suspended 17 gamers, along with Mickelson and Johnson, after they signed up for the LIV Sequence. Morikawa, 25, would secure been the fundamental high-10 player to hitch the breakaway league.
Reports on Tuesday mentioned that Koepka, the enviornment No 19, would dispute his resolution to hitch the LIV Sequence in the arriving days. The four-time important champion has but to issue on the reports nonetheless at the US Originate closing week he bristled when requested relating to the LIV Sequence.
To mutter for the account, all but again, you all are absolutely immoral. I’ve mentioned it since February at Riviera that I’m right here to carry on the @PGATOUR and nothing has changed. Now whereas you happen to’ll excuse me, I’ve got some cereal to pour in my milk
— Collin Morikawa (@collin_morikawa) June 21, 2022
“I’m right here at the US Originate,” he mentioned. “I’m ready to play the US Originate, and I deem it extra or much less sucks, too, you would also very successfully be all throwing this gloomy cloud over the US Originate. It’s surely one of my current occasions. I don’t know why you guys support doing that. The extra legs you give [LIV Golf], the extra you support talking about it.”
After its opening occasion in England, the series strikes to the US with tournaments in Portland and Bedminster. The Bedminster route is owned by Donald Trump, who’s below investigation for his role in the 6 January attack on the US Capitol.