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Billy Horschel hits out at LIV Golf “hypocrites”

Billy Horschel hits out at LIV Golf "hypocrites"

Billy Horschel has launched an impassioned defence of the PGA Tour and DP World Tour, urging the players who have defected to LIV Golf to just “go away”.

Speaking ahead of this week’s Genesis Scottish Open at The Renaissance, the Floridian insisted that he “can’t be diplomatic about it anymore” in a stinging rebuke of the players who have jumped ship for the Saudi-funded start-up.

His comments came little more than 12 hours after three players – Ian Poulter, Adrian Otaegui and Justin Harding – were granted an injunction against sanctions imposed upon them by the DP World Tour, which will allow them to play in Scotland this week.

“I believe they made their bed,” said the 35-year-old. “They decided to go play on that tour and they should go play there. They shouldn’t be coming back over by DP World Tour or the PGA Tour. 

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“To say that they wanted to also support this tour, Whether DP or PGA Tour going forward while playing LIV tour, is completely asinine.

“To play the PGA Tour, you gotta play 15 events. Their schedules are now going to be 14 so they’re going to play 29 tournaments a year to still hold their membership on the PGA Tour? That’s ridiculous. 

“Just coming to play the big events on…

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