Eddie Pepperell was quite furious after comments made by Lee Westwood who competes at LIV Golf. Westwood criticized the PGA Tour and laughed at their moves. This made Pepperell very angry and he had something to say; ‘Hard to know what to make of you these days, Lee.
You’ve taken the money moving to LIV (which is fine) but surely keeping quiet would be a better, classier way to go about it.’- Pepperell said, as quoted by mailplus.co.uk A few months ago, Pepperell made a similiar statement regarding Westwood and Ian Poulter ‘I don’t think Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter give a s*** and they don’t need to care.
They’re going to be done with the game in three or four years.’
Lee Westwood’s statement
Let’s recall Lee Westwood’s statement a few days ago. Westwood criticized the PGA Tour for copying LIV Golf “All the PGA Tour has done since Tiger came on tour is up the prize purses.
In turn, that has taken all the best players from Europe away from the European Tour. They’ve had to play in the States, taking all their World Ranking points with them. That was their strategy: ‘Put up the money.
Get all the players. Hog all the World Ranking points’, which becomes self-perpetuating. What we have seen over the last few months is just LIV doing what the PGA Tour has done for the last 25 years. I laugh at what the PGA Tour players have come up with.
It’s just a copy of what LIV is doing, there are a lot of hypocrites out there. They all say LIV is ‘not competitive.’ They all point at the no-cut aspect of LIV and the ‘short fields.’ – Westwood said.
“Now, funnily enough, they are proposing 20 events that look a lot like LIV. Hopefully, at some point they will all choke on their words. And hopefully, they will be held to account as we were in the early days”.
