World quantity two Rory McIlroy says the Gamers Championship has “extra of an identification” than the US PGA Championship however doesn’t imagine the match ought to turn into males’s golf’s fifth main.
The 36-year-old, from County Down in Northern Eire, grew to become simply the sixth man to win every of the game’s 4 majors – the Masters, US Open, Open Championship and US PGA Championship – in April when he earned a first Green Jacket at Augusta Nationwide to finish the profession Grand Slam.
The Gamers, held in March at TPC Sawgrass, has lengthy been nicknamed ‘the fifth main’, and used to boast of the strongest subject in golf, though has been with out a variety of huge names because the begin of LIV Golf in 2022.
Final week, the match started a promotional marketing campaign for this yr’s version with the tagline ‘March goes to be main’.
Whereas girls’s golf already has 5 majors, McIlroy doesn’t really feel the lads’s sport must broaden its personal designation.
“Look, I might like to have seven majors as an alternative of 5, that sounds nice,” McIlroy mentioned referencing his two earlier Gamers Championships to go alongside his 5 majors.
“I feel the Gamers is likely one of the greatest golf tournaments on this planet. I do not assume anybody disputes that or argues that. I feel from a participant perspective it is superb. I feel from an on-site fan expertise it is superb. It is a tremendous golf course, location, venue.
“However I am a traditionalist, I am a historian of the sport. We’ve 4 main championships. If you wish to see what 5 main championships seems like, have a look at the ladies’s sport. I do not understand how nicely that is went for them.”
