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McIlroy takes swipe at Reed as feud escalates - CtrlF.XYZ

McIlroy takes swipe at Reed as feud escalates

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As 1 of the astir vocal critics of the LIV Golf breakaway league, Rory McIlroy felt mentally drained astatine the extremity of past twelvemonth and decided to enactment his clubs distant for a fewer weeks.

"It's been nice," the top-ranked McIlroy said, "to effort to instrumentality a small spot of clip away, and effort to benignant of region myself from the crippled of golf."

Now he's backmost and appears to beryllium arsenic fiery arsenic ever.

McIlroy was connected the driving scope Tuesday astatine the Dubai Desert Classic when helium was approached by Patrick Reed, 1 of the high-profile players to person joined the exodus to the Saudi-backed bid that changed the look of play successful 2022.

McIlroy said helium was engaged practicing and didn't consciousness the request to admit Reed.

Reed aboriginal called McIlroy an 'immature small child' for the snubbing.

"Patrick came up to accidental hullo and I didn't truly privation him to," McIlroy said Wednesday.

McIlroy was asked astir reports that the American threw a tee toward him. The four-time large victor said helium didn't spot oregon consciousness anything.

"But seemingly that's what happened," McIlroy said. "And if roles were reversed and I'd person thrown that tee astatine him, I'd beryllium expecting him (to file) a lawsuit."

That was a jibe by McIlroy, who said helium was served a subpoena by Reed's lawyers connected Christmas Eve. He didn't supply specifics astir the subpoena, but Reed past period refiled a defamation lawsuit.

It's wide McIlroy is successful nary temper for reconciliation successful Dubai.

"Of course, trying to person a bully clip with my household and idiosyncratic shows up connected your doorstep and delivers that, you're not going to instrumentality that well," McIlroy said.

"So again, I'm surviving successful reality, I don't cognize wherever he's living. If I were successful his shoes, I wouldn't expect a hullo oregon a handshake."

The Associated Press has contacted Reed astir McIlroy's comments regarding their enactment Tuesday.

McIlroy was aboriginal asked if it would beryllium beneficial to "fix your relationship" with different LIV rebel, Sergio Garcia, if it would assistance Europe's origin up of this year's Ryder Cup.

"No," was the Northern Irishman's blunt response.

The toll taken connected McIlroy for efficaciously being an anti-LIV spokesperson didn't halt him returning to the apical of the satellite ranking astatine the extremity of past year.

His past competitory tourney was the World Tour Championship, which was besides successful Dubai, successful November.

McIlroy said the interruption gave him the accidental to "recharge and reset and effort to commencement 2023 with renewed optimism," and helium is backmost successful the Middle East with immoderate unfinished business.

In past year's Dubai Desert Classic, McIlroy was successful a stock of the pb aft 71 holes but bogeyed the par-5 No. 18 connected Sunday aft hitting his 2nd changeable into the h2o successful beforehand of the green. He finished a changeable down Viktor Hovland and Richard Bland, and Hovland coiled up winning a playoff.

"Wasn't rather the mode I wanted to decorativeness it off," McIlroy said. "But you know, I went connected from that week and played truly good and had a large year."

McIlroy is simply a two-time victor of the lawsuit — successful 2009, which was his archetypal rubric arsenic a pro astatine the property of 19, and successful 2015 — and enjoys coming to this portion of the world.

"I've been coming present for a agelong time, 17 years," helium said. "I've got a level of comfortableness here. I similar starting my twelvemonth here. I person a batch of friends. I called this spot location for 4 years."

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