ATLANTA — PGA Tour Rookie of the 12 months favourite Cameron Younger mentioned Sunday that he’s staying with the tour after having discussions with LIV Golf about becoming a member of the brand new circuit.
Younger, talking after Sunday’s last spherical of the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Membership, mentioned he was intrigued by LIV Golf’s “contemporary concepts” however was inspired {that a} group of prime gamers are working with PGA Tour officers to make the tour higher.
“Frankly, I’ve determined to remain,” Younger mentioned. “It is a actually troublesome scenario as a result of it isn’t something that anybody actually needed to occur. I believe it wasn’t meant to be this sort of hostile between the 2.”
Younger, the Seventeenth-ranked participant within the Official World Golf Rating, turned the seventh participant since 1980 to complete runner-up 5 instances in a season. He was the primary participant to do it since Vijay Singh in 2003. Younger completed second on the Sanderson Farms Championship, Genesis Invitational, Wells Fargo Championship, The Open and the Rocket Market Mortgage Traditional.
Younger, 25, had 11 top-25s in 24 begins and completed the common season ninth within the FedEx Cup standings. He’s the primary PGA Tour rookie to earn $5 million or extra in a season. Going into the Tour Championship, Younger had earned greater than $6.5 million.
On Monday, LIV Golf is predicted to announce the addition of at the very least six PGA Tour members, together with world No. 2 golfer Cameron Smith, who defeated Younger by 1 stroke within the one hundred and fiftieth Open at St. Andrews. Chile’s Joaquin Niemann, Australia’s Marc Leishman, america’ Harold Varner III, India’s Anirban Lahiri and American Cameron Tringale are additionally anticipated to defect and compete in LIV Golf’s subsequent occasion in Boston.
Chile’s Mito Pereira can be anticipated to hitch LIV Golf sooner or later sooner or later, sources informed ESPN.
Younger attended final week’s PGA Tour gamers’ assembly on the BMW Championship in Wilmington, Delaware, that was led by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. Younger mentioned he sat subsequent to McIlroy and was “there to pay attention and never communicate.”
On Wednesday, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan introduced that the tour’s prime gamers had dedicated to play in 20 occasions, beginning within the 2022-23 season. The schedule additionally could have 13 elevated occasions with common purses of $20 million.
“We do not know who’s going to go after this week or subsequent 12 months,” Younger mentioned. “I believe there is a very nice core group of men which can be simply going to remain, and a variety of them are extremely ranked gamers on this planet. I do not suppose the competitors on the PGA Tour goes to go downhill considerably.”
