Rory McIlroy said Tiger Woods’ meeting with Saudi sponsor.
Rory McIlroy said Tiger Woods’ meeting with Saudi sponsor LIV Golf in New York was “unpleasant and unacceptable.”
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Rory McIlroy made the remarks to Tiger Woods and PGA Tour officials, citing a meeting with Saudi sponsor LIV Golf in New York on the eve of the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
The world’s two biggest golf companies have been in merger talks for over a year, and the meeting is being held with the aim of finally reaching an agreement. Flight tracking account X radaratlas2 found private jets belonging to Woods, Saudi oil and gas company Aramco and the PGA Tour landing in New York on Monday.
In response, Chief Justice Brett Eagleson issued a scathing statement criticizing Woods for holding the meeting just a day before the anniversary of the attacks, calling it “abhorrent and unacceptable.”
While McIlroy didn’t criticize Woods to the same extent, the Northern Irishman didn’t side with his fellow golfer either. Rumors surfaced several months ago that the relationship between the two sides was deteriorating.
After a meeting between PGA Tour and LIV Tour officials this week, McIlroy reportedly said: Woods attended the reported meeting before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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“It’s obviously a strange time,” McIlroy said of the Sept. 10 meeting. “I don’t know much about the current negotiations. I know that stuff happens, but I’m not going to be a part of it.\’
“I think we’re all playing golf to find a solution to all this and move forward. So let’s see. At this point, I know as much as you do, but I think news will start to trickle in over the next few days. Fifteen of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudis, but the Saudi government has consistently denied any involvement in the attacks. “Tomorrow we celebrate the 23rd anniversary of 9/11, but today we’re here in New York, a stone’s throw from Ground Zero, with the PGA Tour and Tiger Woods negotiating with them,” said Eagleson, who lost his father in the South Tower when he was 15. “As CBS News reporting has confirmed in recent weeks, the Saudi government was complicit in the horrific 9/11 attacks. “It is disgusting, unacceptable and incredibly heartbreaking that the Tour and Woods have done this — especially now.”
