Major champ puts blast on LIV golfers: ‘I don’t want them here!’

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Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau have been central to speculation about a return to the PGA Tour - but Lucas Glover doesn't want them back.

With new management at the helm of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, it looks like the framework agreement may finally move forward. But one veteran is fine with how things are right now…

Lucas Glover has not been one to shy away since getting his own radio show.

During ‘drivergate’ at the PGA Championship, Glover had a dig at his own colleagues while revealing that they often try and “cheat” the system.

Now the former US Open champ has taken aim at the players who decided to defect to LIV Golf.

And he is in no doubt as to which side of the most hotly debated topic in recent golf history he falls.

“I don’t want to play with them,” he said. “I don’t think they should be back here. I don’t want them here.

“They made their decision. I don’t blame any of them. They made a decision, I don’t care, but they also went away from this tour and chose to.”

Lucas Glover vents his concerns over fellow PGA Tour players now having the majority on the PGA Tour policy board

At 45, Glover is arguably playing some of best golf of his career. Indeed, three of his six PGA Tour titles have come in the last four years after a decade-long winless run. He has also become a full-time fixture in the majors again and last year played in all four for the first time since 2013.

And that willingness to grind, he believes, is what playing this game at the highest level is all about.

“As a PGA Tour player and somebody that dreamed of playing on the PGA Tour, and have poured my heart and soul into this tour and game for 21 seasons now, I don’t want somebody that chose another path and a path of least or less resistance.

“I don’t want them back here competing and taking part of my pie and these kids’ pie that are trying to make it now.”

While Glover did concede that having a number of the top LIV golfers back on the PGA Tour “would benefit all of us because our TV deal in 2030 would be great”, he added: “Does it behove us as Tour members, who have equity now, to grow our sport by bringing some of those guys back? I’m having a hard time with it.”

It will certainly be interesting to hear new PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp’s take on matters, once he’s had time to get his head around it all.

You can listen to The Lucas Glover Show on SiriusXM.

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