The agent for Rory McIlroy dismissed rumors of a pending transfer to LIV Golf for $850 million, calling it “pretend information” Tuesday.
“Pretend information. Zero fact,” agent Sean O’Flaherty told the Irish Independent in an e mail.
O’Flaherty was responding to a sourced report by City A.M., a London monetary paper, that stated McIlroy, the No. 2 participant on the earth, “might” make the leap to LIV Golf from the PGA Tour after a suggestion of $850 million and “about 2 p.c fairness within the competitors.”
McIlroy, 34, had been one of the crucial distinguished critics of the Saudi-backed breakaway circuit because it launched in 2021, however then described himself because the PGA Tour’s “sacrificial lamb” when it introduced a partnership with LIV Golf in June 2023.
LIV Golf lured then-world No. 3 Jon Rahm into its ranks in December with a deal reportedly price greater than $350 million.
In February, McIlroy’s former agent fueled hypothesis that the Northern Irishman presumably was softening his stance towards LIV Golf.
“In the event you have been being cynical, you would possibly say he’ll signal for about 750 million [pounds] in a month’s time with LIV as a result of he is paving the way in which that LIV’s OK now, whereas it wasn’t,” Chubby Chandler stated then, in line with the Irish Impartial.
“He would not want 750 million [pounds] however it’s odd what he is executed and I am positive it is a risk. If he does it or not, I do not know, but when Rahm can do it, most guys can do it.”
McIlroy completed in a tie for twenty second on the Masters on Sunday, 15 strokes behind winner Scottie Scheffler. The four-time main champion has not received a Grand Slam occasion for the reason that 2014 PGA Championship.
Area Degree Media contributed to this report.
