Matthew Fitzpatrick's stance on LIV Golf as British star admits 'I just don't care'

Former US Open champion Matthew Fitzpatrick has made his thoughts brutally wide astir continuing merger talks betwixt the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour and LIV Golf's backers

Matthew Fitzpatrick had admitted helium is past the constituent of caring astir golf merger talks.

There were hopes that negotiations betwixt the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour and LIV Golf’s Saudi backers would accelerate astatine the existent Alfred Dunhill Championship. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan was successful the same radical arsenic Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the politician of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) – which bankrolls LIV – successful Thursday’s archetypal circular astatine Carnoustie.

The brace person been pictured embracing and adjacent sharing a joke. Away from the nationalist eye, Monahan and Al-Rumayyan, positive different cardinal stakeholders successful the game, are expected to person held caller talks astir bringing the men’s crippled backmost unneurotic much than 2 years since the motorboat of the breakaway LIV tour.

But erstwhile US Open champion Fitzpatrick says it volition instrumentality much than a cosy chat astir a Scottish links people to extremity the sport’s civilian warfare erstwhile and for all. The Englishman said: “I don't deliberation they are going to determine the aboriginal of play successful 5 hours astir Carnoustie. I cognize Carnoustie is beauteous bloody hard. Not overmuch clip for talking."

He added bluntly: “I deliberation successful presumption of bringing the crippled unneurotic this week, I'm passed the constituent of caring. I conscionable don't care.

“Me saying things to the PGA TOUR board, maine saying things to the DP World Tour board, it's not going to change, truthful wherefore americium I going to discarded my clip talking astir it.”

A merger is believed to beryllium adjacent with Rory McIlroy claiming a woody could beryllium finalised by the extremity of the year, though helium admits a “50-50” divided successful subordinate sentiment is 1 of the last hurdles to overcome.

Asked if the atrocious humor betwixt the 2 factions had passed, Fitzpatrick. He added: “Not necessarily. I deliberation there's astir apt immoderate players successful the States, their feelings, I don't deliberation they would beryllium precise happy.”

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On his ain feelings towards LIV, helium said: “If I'm astir apt brutally honest, astatine the start, I astir apt was beauteous against it and it was not of immoderate involvement to maine to spell and play [in] LIV. But I've ever said that I understood wherefore radical went. I've got nary issues with that. No issues astatine all.

“My contented was ever [that] you've gone implicit there. I don't consciousness similar it's just for you to effort and travel backmost and play. But I would accidental I've changed connected that now. Again, I conscionable don't care. I conscionable privation to absorption connected myself.

“I deliberation that's what's important, and effort and play the champion play I can. I don't privation to get 10 years down the roadworthy and look back. I'm not going to beryllium determination and think, ‘oh, I privation I'd got much progressive successful that LIV and PGA TOUR’. It's like, you're wasting your time.”

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