Rory McIlroy called it “a slap in the face” for James Hahn to miss out on Tuesday’s gamer conference after Hahn had actually highly slammed the PGA Tour’s brand-new style of play introduced for 2024.
“Like, you say all this s— and you’re not even in the meeting?” McIlroy stated ofHahn “If you want to get informed and be a part of the process … the fact that he wasn’t even in the room was a slap in the face to everyone there.”
McIlroy made his statements quickly after his press conference Tuesday at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, where he and also Hahn are completing at the Players Championship today.
During a phone meeting with Golfweek on March 4, Hahn, 41, slammed the strategy by the PGA Tour to alter to a brand-new marked occasion version in 2024, which is mostly viewed as a reaction to the questionable Saudi- backed LIV circuit having actually poached some PGA Tour gamers.
“I hate them,” Hahn informed Golfweek of the modifications. “I’m gonna say exactly what 99.99 percent of fans said about players leaving for the LIV Tour. If our players just said, ‘We’re doing this for the money,’ I would have a lot more respect for them. But how they’re covering up what they’re doing and trying to make it a thing about sponsors and fans and saving opposite-field events. I think that’s all BS.”
The system of marked occasions entered into play this year, focused on maintaining gamers on the PGATour The scenic tour elevated the minimal bag at each of these occasions to $20 million.
Now, the PGA Tour has actually played with the competitions even more. In the 2024 period, each marked occasion will certainly have an area of in between 70 and also 80 gamers, with an assurance to play all 4 rounds for bags of $20 million or even more.
“Right now, they’re just covering their ass and saying everything that the PGA Tour basically has trained them to say, have taught them to say and try to make it not about money when everyone knows 100 percent it’s about more guaranteed money being funneled to the top players in the world,” Hahn informedGolfweek “We’ve been talking about money for the last two years, and for them not to say that that’s not the No. 1 reason why they’re making these changes — it’s very, very hypocritical.”
Hahn hasn’t won given that the 2016 Wells Fargo Championship and also has actually missed out on 13 cuts given that in 2015’sPlayers Championship He received the Players this year due to the fact that he completed 113th in the FedEx Cup standings in 2022.
McIlroy, 33, is ratedNo 3 in the globe after completing a shot behind leader Kurt Kitayama recently atthe Arnold Palmer Invitational He might come to beNo 1 with a triumph today at TPC Sawgrass.
