Of course he was going to be asked. Dressed in black, with the swoosh logo clearly displayed on cap and golf top, Rory McIlroy sat comfortably in his seat at a media conference ahead of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Orlando and waited, and waited.
Finally, it came. Seventeen questions in, McIlroy was asked about Phil Mickelson, or rather the fallout of Lefty’s recent views on the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabia-backed proposed breakaway league which had led to Mickelson losing so many of his blue chip sponsors. Mickelson had claimed the PGA Tour acts like a “dictatorship” and that he was using the threat of a breakaway league to “reshape” how it operated.
Many of those corporate super brands had walked after Micke …
- March 3, 2022
