PGA Tour golfer Collin Morikawa is ready for everyone to stop talking so much about the LIV Golf series and move on to other topics.
“I think we have many other stories we can talk about, right?” the defending Open Championship winner said Wednesday from the Scottish Open. “There’s a handful of players that are coming from LIV that are playing this week, but I don’t think that should be our focus.”
Morikawa was reacting to a question about LIV golfer Ian Poulter, who got his DP World Tour suspension overturned, which allowed him to enter the Scottish Open (not that he made it count). But really, he was responding to the near-deafening conversation that has taken over the golf world in recent weeks as LIV Golf has poached many notable names and golfers from the PGA Tour as the two entities battle it out in the court of public opinion.
Morikawa was the subject of rumors that he was considering leaving the PGA Tour for LIV Golf but he put them to bed in June.
“I’ve said it since February at Riviera that I’m here to stay on the PGA Tour and nothing has changed,” he wrote at the time.
Thursday, Morikawa told reporters that he’s tired of the questions and stories pitting the two against one another and would love to see a return to the old days of golf storytelling.
“Like I said earlier, there’s 14 of the best 15 players,” he said of the Scottish Open field. “You guys write the stories, every one of you guys here, right, and you guys can write the stories about anyone else. We hear a lot of stories about players that are here that come to these press conferences, but you guys maybe don’t write stories about other people that are interesting.
“I think it’s your guys’ job to go out and find these stories that are interesting. Obviously, we are in Scotland so you guys might write about Scottish players. But when we’re at other events, find things guys might have ties to.”
Good luck with that, Collin.
[Golf.com]
