


Rory McIlroy and James Hahn are the latest to have engaged in a battle of words amid the ongoing un-civil war between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.
McIlroy, a four-time major champion and past winner of this week’s Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, blasted Hahn for skipping out on Tuesday’s PGA Tour player meeting at TPC Sawgrass after Hahn fired his own salvos over changes to the Tour’s schedule that stand to benefit McIlroy and other stars of the game.
“You say all this s–t and you’re not even in the meeting?” the Northern Irishman said, per Golf.com’s Dylan Dethier. “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.”
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The meeting took place at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, about two hours before McIlroy met with the media.
The 41-year-old Hahn, a two-time winner on tour, previously ripped the changes the PGA Tour has made in response to the controversial Saudi-backed LIV circuit having poached a number of players.
Among those changes are having designated certain tournaments as elevated events that will feature smaller fields, no cut and more prize money for golf’s biggest stars.
Hahn said previously that he “hates them,” accused the PGA Tour of covering up what they’re doing and labeled players who support the changes as hypocritical.
“All the big names that are talking about this ‘new product,’ if you just came out and said, ‘Hey, we’re doing this for the money,’ they want more guaranteed money and this is another way to funnel more money to the top players in the world, I’d have a lot more respect for them,” Hahn told Golfweek. “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.
“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.”