McIlroy prefers more majors than more money from breakaway golf league

Reports have come out that the backers of the proposed golf league – formerly dubbed the Premier Golf League but now going by SGL – plan to start operation in 2022

Rory McIlroy during the second round of the Masters. Picture: AP Photo/David J Phillip

Efforts to create a “super league” in golf will not die. Neither has Rory McIlroy’s contempt for it.

McIlroy reiterated on Wednesday at the Quail Hollow Club that he still has no interest in accepting any offer, no matter how lucrative, to join a breakaway “Super Golf League” circuit of elite golfers being fronted by Saudi Arabia.