LIV Golf star launched furious tirade at former Ryder Cup teammate Rory McIlroy

A new golf book that highlights the ongoing battle between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf featured an excerpt that took shots at Rory McIlroy and his status in the sport as well as his TGL endeavours

An anonymous former Ryder Cup teammate who defected to LIV Golf unleashed a furious tirade on Rory McIlroy.

On his website, golf writer Alan Shipnuck has posted passages from his next book that criticize McIlroy and his battle with the Saudi-funded league. The fight between the PGA Tour and the new competition is covered in-depth in the book “LIV and Let Die.”

One of the excerpts released from the book featured an explosive alleged rant aimed at McIlroy. The author refused to list who made the comments but the passage was released on Today’s Golf.

“F*** Rory. I’m so sick of hearing about how he is some kind of hero who is saving golf,” said the unnamed golfer. “He’s bought and paid for like everybody else, it’s just that his money is coming from the other side.”

“Did you know that when Whoop wanted to do a deal with the PGA Tour, the Tour insisted that Rory be one of the endorsers? He was given a $10 million equity stake that is now worth $200 million.

“How do you think he got his own deal with NBC? The Tour brokered that, too. The Tour is so reliant on Rory now they have given him his own league [TGL], even though it will compete with the Tour for viewers and advertisers.”

“Rory’s fighting so hard for the Tour because he wants to preserve his revenue streams, not because he cares about the Tour itself. That he is being held up as some kind of savior on Twitter and by all the fanboys with their s***ty podcasts tells you how little people really understand what is going on.”

Sean O’Flaherty, McIlroy’s manager, reportedly asked the writer for the identity of a golfer who was mentioned in one of the articles. The golfer had only agreed to talk anonymously, the author objected.

There has been plenty of public back-and-forth between McIlroy and former Team Europe teammates who opted to take the money on offer by LIV Golf. He recently took aim at Henrik Stenson, the former Ryder Cup captain who lost the role to Luke Donald after his decision to join LIV.

“”Henrik’s trip to LIV was the best thing that could have happened to the 2023 Euro Ryder Cup team,” McIlroy posted on social media. A few days earlier, he had suggested that Europe did not miss other former teammates who had missed the most recent tournament, following his call for the Ryder Cup rules to be changed to accommodate Jon Rahm.

McIlroy wrote, “We didn’t miss them, and we didn’t NEED any of the others in Rome.” “Jon would be greatly missed and needed at Bethpage.”