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They Will All Choke Veteran LIV Golf Rebel Slams PGA Tour Hypocrites With Vehement Criticism

Published 08/26/2022, 9:30 AM EDTBy Golf – The 150th Open Championship – Old Course, St Andrews, Scotland, Britain – July 12, 2022 Tiger Woods of the U.S. during a press conference REUTERS/Andrew Boyers Lee John Westwood, an English professional golfer, is famous for his consistency. He has won tournaments on five different continents – Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Not just this, he achieved several victories on the European Tour and the PGA Tour. Lee recently made a comment on the PGA tour’s moves and compared it to LIV Golf unexpectedly. ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this ad

Lee Westwood and his honest take on LIV Golf

ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this ad The rivalry of the PGA tour and LIV Golf is not ending soon. After players shifting to LIV for better offers and left behind PGA, the PGA has made some changes. There have been multi-million modifications to the PGA tour’s top end structure. Now one can imagine how the players must feel who lost PGA membership because they chose LIV.Golf – The 149th Open Championship – Royal St George’s, Sandwich, Britain – July 15, 2021 England’s Lee Westwood on the second green during the first round REUTERS/Rebecca Naden The players are busy in their legal fights to keep their PGA membership, but is not one of them. While speaking to Golf Digest, he expressed his true feelings. The former No.1, unlike other LIV Golf players, does not want to fight. He wants to travel less and play less, as his 50th birthday is in April next year. He wants to relax and not get caught up in the conflict.

Lee calls out hypocrisy of PGA Tour

After the announcement of the PGA tour changes, the golf world is reacting in all forms. Some are negative and some are positives. But Lee went for honesty. He does not find any difference in LIV Golf and the PGA tour. In fact, he called it hypocrisy. ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this adGolf – The 2020 Ryder Cup – Whistling Straits, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, U.S. – September 25, 2021 Team Europe’s Lee Westwood on the 1st hole during the Foursomes REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Talking to Golf Digest, he , “I laugh at what the PGA Tour players have come up with. It’s just a copy of what LIV is doing. There are a lot of hypocrites out there. They all say LIV is ‘not competitive.’ “They all point at the no-cut aspect of LIV and the short fields. Now, funnily enough, they are proposing 20 events that look a lot like LIV. Hopefully, at some point they will all choke on their words. And hopefully, they will be held to account as we were in the early days.” Watch this story- ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this ad In between of all this controversy and rivalry, Lee is trying to live his life peacefully. He is looking forward to play the LIV event which will happen in Miami, end of October. After that, he will not have to tee up till February. He is all set to enjoy his four months off. What is your take on Lee’s comment about hypocrisy? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.

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ADVERTISEMENT Saumya Yashawant 330 articlesA Commerce graduate who turned her passion into her profession, Saumya is a Golf writer at Essentially Sports. Having developed the love for the sport at a very young age, she watched Tiger Woods and caught inspiration from his legacy early on. Apart from Woods, she shares great admiration for her country's players like Vishwanathan Anand and Neeraj Chopra.Please enable JavaScript to view the ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT

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