During the 2022 U.S. Open, Rory McIlroy woke up to a text message from Sergio Garcia telling him to “shut up” about LIV Golf.
Rory revealed that he received the text message while doing an interview with the “Irish Independent“, saying “He was basically telling me to shut up about LIV, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.”
The 33-year-old said that he “was pretty offended and sent him back a couple of daggers and that was it.”
Back in June, Golf Monthly reported that the relationship between the two had completely deteriorated due to the Spaniard’s decision to join LIV Golf.
The story also said that the rhetoric between McIlroy and Garcia had turned “bitter and personal”. With the U.S. Open taking place June 16th-19th, the timeline would indicate that the clash via text could have accelerated the rapid decline of the Garcia/McIlroy friendship in addition to Garcia’s controversial decision to join LIV despite knowing it would most likely end with him being ineligible to participate in future Ryder Cup’s.
McIlroy and Garcia were once close friends and were the star pairing of the 2014 Ryder Cup team when the European Team was able to defeat the United States team in Scotland.
Rory has consistently been one of the most vocal players on the PGA Tour in terms of criticism of both LIV Golf and their CEO Greg Norman, and he has no plans to slow down. He also said in the interview that he wanted to be “as much of a pain in the a**e” to Norman as possible.
