Rory McIlroy is taking the idiom, “put your cash the place your mouth is,” to a different degree. As an alternative of speaking about his personal cash, the World No. 2 is placing different individuals’s cash the place his mouth is.
Forward of this week’s Hero Dubai Desert Basic, McIlroy despatched a pointed message to Ryder Cup teammates and LIV golfers Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton about paying their money owed to the DP World Tour. When requested whether or not Rahm and Hatton ought to pay their fines to make sure Ryder Cup eligibility for 2027, McIlroy did not hesitate.
“Sure, completely,” McIlroy informed reporters at Emirates Golf Membership this week, per The Guardian. “We went actually laborious on the Individuals about being paid to play the Ryder Cup, and we additionally stated that we might pay to play in Ryder Cups. There’s two guys that may show it.”
That is straightforward to say while you’re not the one who owes the DP World Tour thousands and thousands of kilos in fines.
The fines date again to some years in the past when the DP World Tour handed down sanctions to Rahm and Hatton for competing in LIV Golf occasions with out permission. Each golfers appealed the sanctions in 2024, however there’s nonetheless no date for the instances to be heard. If Rahm and Hatton lose their appeals, they’d be pressured to pay the fines and threat dropping their DP World Tour memberships, which might value them an opportunity to compete within the 2027 Ryder Cup at Adare Manor.
“I believe any group or any members’ group like this has a proper to uphold its guidelines and rules,” McIlroy stated. “What the DP World Tour are doing is upholding their guidelines and rules. We, as members, signal a doc initially of yearly, which has you agree to those guidelines and rules. The people who made the choice to go to LIV knew what they had been. So I don’t see what’s fallacious with that.”
Tyrrell Hatton may not take Rory McIlroy’s recommendation
Hatton, who’s scheduled to play with McIlroy within the first two rounds of the Dubai Desert Basic, refused to decide to complying with the DP World Tour’s sanctions.
“I don’t have something so as to add,” Hatton stated. “I’ve at all times been extraordinarily proud to be a member of the DP World Tour. It’s fairly laborious to make Ryder Cup groups, and I’ve been lucky to play within the final 4. Hopefully, I can play extra sooner or later; hopefully, the one factor that stops me is age and youthful expertise taking my spot.
“I don’t have an replace to provide. It’s nonetheless with authorized groups and there’s guys which might be nonetheless in conversations working all of it out. So I haven’t put any extra thought into that. I don’t actually know what’s taking place. I’m simply right here to play golf, as at all times.”
McIlroy appears to be extra apprehensive about Rahm and Hatton’s Ryder Cup future than the gamers themselves.
