Will Zalatoris backs PGA Tour in advance of newest LIV Golfing function: 'We are the finest tour'

Top-ranked PGA Tour player Will Zalatoris shut down rumors past thirty day period that he would defect to the rival LIV Golf league and on Tuesday he doubled down, calling it the "greatest tour." 

The 25-12 months-outdated golfer, who has however to gain on the Tour but finished 2nd at this year’s PGA Championship and U.S. Open up, spoke overtly about his feelings toward the pressure between the two circuits. 

Will Zalatoris watches his shot in the course of the last spherical of the U.S. Open, June 19, 2022, in Brookline, Massachusetts. (G3 Box News Image/Julio Cortez)

"I’m a Participant Advisory Council member, so we chat about it internally a great deal," he claimed Tuesday, via United states of america Currently. "It is a wild time for the PGA Tour and I guess golf as a entire, but the modifications that I assume are likely to transpire and everything that is likely to appear down the street is only likely to make us more powerful."

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Zalatoris, who is a preferred at this week’s Rocket Home loan Classic, did not appear to be way too anxious with the outcomes LIV Golfing may well have on the PGA Tour, even with its potential to pull in the sports' best expertise with its rewarding signing bonuses and purse dimensions. 

Will Zalatoris reacts soon after missing a putt during the closing round of the U.S. Open, June 19, 2022, in Brookline, Massachusetts. (G3 Box News Picture/Robert F. Bukaty)

"And we are the very best tour. Each 7 days we’re participating in the best courses on the planet… I just feel that just allow time occur and permit anything kind of settle and it will be quite obvious, but right now with all the improvements and how almost everything has been just so wild and a good deal of hearsay, I consider that we just need to have to let the dust settle if you will, and we’ll be just wonderful."

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Zalatoris will be just one of the 5 players competing in Detroit this weekend that make up five of the best 20 ranked players in the world. LIV Golf will have 10 of the prime 50 players in the world competing at the Bedminister Invitational at Trump Countrywide in New Jersey – but no participant from the best 15. 

Will Zalatoris waves soon after creating a putt throughout the PGA Championship at Southern Hills State Club, May possibly 22, 2022, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (G3 Box News Photograph/Sue Ogrocki)

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Players competing at the Rocket House loan Traditional are vying for an $8.4 million purse with the winner’s share coming to about $1.5 million though LIV Golf is giving a $25 million purse with a $4 million winner’s share and a $5 million prize for the winning staff. 

The G3 Box News contributed to this report.