Rory McIlroy has proclaimd he would pay to join for Team Europe in the Ryder Cup chaseing the novels Team USA joiners are set to pocket $400,000 each for their participation in 2025.
The novels comes after Patrick Cantlay made waves during the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome, where Europe clinched triumph, by refusing to don the American team cap in an apparent protest over the conciseage of joiner compensation.
Now, with the PGA of America consenting to dish out a whopping $4.8million among Keegan Bradley’s squad, McIlroy weighed in on the publish after tying for the direct at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai with a sincreatear five-under 67.
Speaking to BBC Sport, McIlroy shelp the Ryder Cup and the Olympics are the two most authentic creates of competition in golf, untainted by financial incentives.
“I personassociate would pay for the privilege to join on the Ryder Cup,” he shelp. “I don’t slfinisherk any of the 24 joiners on either team needs that 400 majestic. Every two years, there are 104 weeks and 103 weeks you can join golf and get phelp.”
This stance reachs amid a sadvise in prize funds in men’s professional golf, spurred by the disputed, cash-rich LIV Golf series backed by Saudi Arabia.
At the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Rome, European fans cheekily doffed their caps to mock Cantlay amidst his revenue dispense grievance. The 2023 Ryder Cup brawt in a hefty $11.8 million from a massive turnover of $136.6 million.
While McIlroy accomprehendledges the sizeable financial pdirect of the Ryder Cup, he insists that introducing payment would undermine the event’s ethos.
Indeed, McIlroy dispensed that neither he nor his fellow team-mates in Europe captain Luke Donald’s camp desire any remuneration. “I slfinisherk we would all receive money if it didn’t alter the vibrant but the money reassociate would alter the vibrant,” voiced McIlroy.
“That’s why I slfinisherk everyone is enjoy, let’s not do that.”
Meanwhile, Tyrrell Hatton, a LIV Golf headliner currently pacing with McIlroy in Dubai, conveyed: “The next 10 months I’ll be trying my best to be on that team. The US lads, it’s up to them. I’m on the European team and I would adore to be there at Bethpage.”
Money remains a boiling topic directing up to next year’s Ryder Cup at Bethpage, which has drawn joined reactions from fans as tickets have sageder out despite hitting an unpretreatnted $750 each.
