Smith's desperate plea amid 'petty' ongoing feud

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Cameron Smith has urged the organisers of the 4 majors to "stand supra each the politics" of the LIV Golf vs PGA Tour debate, and fto the Saudi-backed players play.

The pleas person travel connected the aforesaid time LIV Golf confirmed it would marque its Australian debut astatine Grange GC successful Adelaide successful April.

While Smith, on with everyone other signed to the series, is serving an indefinite prohibition from the PGA Tour, the majors are organised and sanctioned by their ain bodies.

The US Masters is tally by the Augusta National Golf Club itself, the US Open by the USGA, the USPGA by the relation itself (as opposed to the PGA Tour), and the British Open by the Royal and Ancient (R&A).

While the Royal and Ancient has each but confirmed LIV stars volition beryllium allowed to play The Open astatine Royal Liverpool successful July, the different 3 majors - the US Open, US Masters and the USPGA - person each yet to perpetrate 1 mode oregon the other.

By winning The Open astatine St Andrews successful July, Smith earned himself a five-year exemption to play successful the different 3 majors, and astatine The Open itself until helium turns 60.

"If (the majors) truly privation the champion merchandise and the champion players playing against each different successful the world, they person to fto america play," Smith told the Sydney Morning Herald.

"There's nary crushed different than playing different circuit that should suggest we shouldn't play.

"We're decidedly bully capable players. We should person those spots."

Smith said helium believed the athletics arsenic a corporate had taken a measurement backmost this twelvemonth arsenic each broadside of the ever-widening ravine slung the proverbial astatine the other.

One of LIV's astir vocal critics, satellite No.1 Rory McIlroy, believes the "us vs them" mentality has present gone excessively far.

It's a sentiment Smith shares.

"I deliberation connected some sides of the committee determination could person been a fewer things, decidedly astatine the start, wherever they could person said antithetic stuff," Smith said.

"There were things wherever ... determination was conscionable immoderate petty worldly going on. It wasn't conscionable 1 side. I'm hopeful that each that is going to truly dice down. It would beryllium bully due to the fact that it's not golf.

"I consciousness similar play has ever been a athletics to flooded each these antithetic problems passim the world, and it feels similar it's taken a measurement back."

Smith volition articulation chap Aussies Marc Leishman, Adam Scott, Cam Davis, Lucas Herbert, Min Woo Lee and Matt Jones successful the Australian Open successful Victoria adjacent month.

In a satellite first, some the men's and women's Opens volition instrumentality portion connected the aforesaid courses, astatine the aforesaid time, for the aforesaid prizemoney.

The archetypal 2 days volition beryllium held astatine Kingston Heath, south-east of Melbourne, portion the last 2 days volition beryllium held down the roadworthy astatine Victoria Golf Club.

The Open volition beryllium held from December 1-4.

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