PGA Tour star Xander Schauffele has doubled down on the previous remarks he made about potentially joining the lucrative LIV Golf League.
Xander Schauffele ridicules PGA Tour ‘loyalists’ with just two words
It’s no secret Xander Schauffele has long been a target for the lucrative LIV Golf League.
The PGA Tour star was reportedly on the verge of joining the breakaway in the initial wave of defections that included the likes of Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau.
But amid Mickelson’s remarks of essentially saying the quiet part loud which almost torpedoed the whole show before it began, Schauffele and his team hastily released a statement confirming he wasn’t going anywhere.
“My allegiance is to the PGA Tour,” he wrote on 24 February 2022.
That statement added he believed positive change was about to come to the PGA Tour regarding intellectual property rights, size of purses and overall transparency.
Since then it is not unreasonable to suggest that change has come in spades.
Xander Schauffele ridicules PGA Tour ‘loyalists’ with just two words
Prize purses have increased – albeit to unsustainable levels – and the players have more power than ever before.
Over the last two years Schauffele’s answers about whether he would join LIV have been largely the same.
He’s happy, for now.
On the most recent edition of the Fore Play podcast, Schauffele opened up on the topic.
“There’s maybe a handful of guys who’ve done this, but like, I’m not like, I’m gonna play here forever,” said Schauffele, who is in the field at the Farmers Insurance Open.
“I’m not saying I’m gonna go there. I just say I’m here right now.”
The World No. 5 then revealed what he finds humorous about the topic.
“I mean, the funniest thing is that everyone that says they’re going to stay, [are the ones to leave]… as soon as I hear someone saying, ‘I’m for sure staying, I’m pledging’ ‘I’m like, you’re gone.'”
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