Billy Horschel makes his feelings perfectly clear to LIV Golf

Billy Horschel is competing successful the DP World Tour's play finale this week, with the American hoping to extremity his 2023 run connected a precocious successful Dubai

Billy Horschel has hailed the DP World Tour arsenic the world's second-best golf circuit, placing it supra LIV Golf and down the PGA Tour successful his idiosyncratic ranking.

The American golfer is presently competing successful Dubai astatine the Earth Course for the DP World Tour's season-ending event. Sitting 12th successful the Race to Dubai Rankings, Horschel has enjoyed a fruitful play successful Europe, including clinching his 2nd BMW PGA Championship title. He notably triumphed implicit Rory McIlroy successful a thrilling playoff astatine Wentworth.

A staunch advocator for the European tour, Horschel expressed his admiration up of the Dubai finale, saying: "I enactment this tour. I emotion this tour. I deliberation the world of this tour. But astatine the aforesaid time, I don't enactment this circuit 20-plus events retired of the year.

"Obviously, the PGA Tour is wherever I play mostly but I privation to marque definite that these guys recognize however peculiar this circuit is, however peculiar I deliberation it is, and past what I deliberation of them arsenic golfers. I deliberation they are truly large players retired here. I deliberation it's honestly -- and prime and talent-wise, I deliberation it's the second-best circuit successful the world, and you spot it connected a regular basis.

"And the much I travel implicit present the more, I'm impressed by the mode these guys play connected TV, I ever person but erstwhile you spot it successful idiosyncratic you get a amended position of the players," reports the Mirror US.

The American's praise comes contempt him ranking the DP World Tour beneath PGA Tour, and supra the splinter LIV Golf league. This instrumentality is notably antithetic to that expressed by six-time DP World Tour champ Thomas Pieters, present with LIV Golf, who earlier voiced that the caller league's play modular surpasses his past experiences by far.

Pieters conveyed to Gulf News: "Coming from the DP World Tour, the modular of play is 10 times amended than what I utilized to play," and added candidly astir the competitiveness successful LIV, "You can't fell retired here. As you tin spot from my results, I haven't had the champion twelvemonth – if you're mean oregon person a atrocious week you're going to decorativeness past oregon successful the past 5 which sucks, but that's conscionable the mode it is. LIV is getting precise strong."

Despite differing perspectives, Horschel positively asserts that dabbling successful the DP World Tour refined some his crippled and character, stating emphatically, "Oh, by acold a amended golfer," and concluding with a motion to his idiosyncratic growth, "I deliberation I've improved my crippled successful conditions similar playing successful The Open Championship and going and playing Dunhill and doing that much often. I've go a batch amended of a person, I warrant you that, by having to recognize antithetic cultures."

"Try to pass with radical that whitethorn not talk English arsenic good oregon I whitethorn not talk their connection arsenic well, truthful you effort to pass that way. Listen, it's made maine a amended idiosyncratic each around, arsenic good arsenic successful my play game."