Fifteen-time PGA Tour winner Justin Thomas has been among the the extra outspoken players to criticize these becoming a member of the rival Saudi-backed golf league. But for Thomas, it is particular. 

For the duration of a modern overall look on the NLU Podcast, Thomas opened up about his inner thoughts about the PGA Tour defectors, stating he would have far more "regard" if people players came out and reported that they joined LIV Golfing for the cash. 

Justin Thomas hits off the sixth tee in the course of the initially round of the Charles Schwab Obstacle golf event at the Colonial State Club Could 26, 2022, in Fort Well worth, Texas. (WHD Image/Tony Gutierrez)

"I go again and forth about how involved I should really be, how included I should not be, what I ought to say, what I should not say, what I want to say and what I know I cannot say and back again and forth of all these distinctive points," Thomas defined. 

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"I recognize they’re being fed everything what to say and all this stuff, but it’s just … For them to say that this is all for the betterment of the recreation, I just, to be flawlessly honest, I just want 1 of them would have the b---s to say I’m undertaking this for the revenue.

Justin Thomas of the United States performs his shot from the sixth tee for the duration of spherical a person of the 122nd U.S. Open Championship at The Region Club June 16, 2022, in Brookline, Mass. (Andrew Redington/Getty Illustrations or photos)

"Like, I personally would gain a ton extra respect for that. But it’s just the additional the gamers continue to keep chatting and expressing that this is for the betterment of the recreation, the additional agitated and irritated I get about it."

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Thomas went on to clarify that the likelihood of litigation is also a genuine risk to the Tour, and much more importantly, the players at the time identified as teammates and close friends. 

"I heard a person that introduced up a fantastic stage … They are declaring that I’m guaranteed at some stage, you know, some type of lawsuits will be heading, and if any of all those guys that remaining to go enjoy the other tour sue the [PGA] Tour, they’re suing me, they are suing Rory [McIlroy], they’re suing Tiger [Woods], they are suing each individual one a person of us that they’ve looked in the encounter … So like, to me, that is where by a minor bit of the betrayal and the upsetting and unfortunate feelings come from."

Rory McIlroy of Northern Eire and Tiger Woods of the United States watch a tee shot on the 10th tee in the course of the second round of the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills State Club May possibly 20, 2022, in Tulsa, Okla. (Ross Kinnaird/Getty Photographs)

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Sixteen customers of the European tour have currently threatened legal motion versus the DP Environment Tour above its fines and suspensions. CEO Keith Pelley fired back again on Friday, declaring the gamers understood there would be outcomes when they signed up for large dollars. 

He included that the players act as if they treatment deeply about Europe but have not performed several of the tour’s huge events.

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