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5th July 2022
05:25pm BST

"And it's really hard because I'm being asked questions that there are no right answers to. "I'm having my moral integrity attacked all the time when, at the end of the day, all I'm trying to do is play golf. I'm trying to make a business decision for me and my family. And, you know, I've paid my dues in this game over the last 20 years, I've tried to carry myself the right way."
"You know, I can't turn on my Instagram or Twitter account without someone telling me to go die. It's been a really tough couple of months. But again, I expected it, I knew what the consequences were going to be, I just didn't realise kind of just how heavily this was going to be hammered, trying to answer questions which are unanswerable."That's probably the only mistake I made in London at the first event when I was in my press conference - I just wish I'd said nothing. I just wish I just sat there and just kind of shook my head and said no comment. But it's not who I am. I always try and be truthful and try to answer questions. I shouldn't have bothered."
"What I do is I play professional golf, I play golf for money," he said. "I've chased that money all over the world all my career. I'm 43 next month and, you know, the LIV Golf opportunity was incredibly lucrative. Do I research into the morals of every dollar I've ever made? No, I don't. "And, unfortunately, because of the competitive threat that this tour is compared to the other tours in the world the negativity has been focused heavily on here and it really hurts to kind of see my name attacked the way it has."
The Northern Irishman is competing at the JP McManus Pro-Am this week, alongside a number of other LIV Golf rebels such as Ian Poulter, Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka.
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