Rory McIlroy’s selfish reason to encourage Koepka- DeChambeau feud

Rory Mcllroy thinks golf’s hottest feud could gain his European Ryder Cup group.

The 4-time big champion weighed in on the world-wide-web-obsessed feud concerning fellow golfers Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau when at Torrey Pines ahead of this week’s US Open.

Although he is not guaranteed the ongoing rift advantages the sport of golf — as Koepka contends — McIlroy does assume it’ll absolutely carry major pounds this slide at the Ryder Cup.

“100 p.c!” a laughing McIlroy instructed Taylor Zarzour on SiriusXM’s PGA TOUR Radio Wednesday, when requested if he thinks the duo’s feud assists the European team’s likelihood in the September levels of competition.

“Yeah, I’m guaranteed [Steve] Stricker will straighten them out before they get to Whistling Straits,” he reported about the U.S. Ryder Cup group captain.

The 43rd Ryder Cup, which was scheduled to be played a calendar year ago, was postponed because of to COVID-19. The matches, concerning the top rated 12 players from the U.S. and Europe, will be played in late September. Koepka and DeChambeau will be on the American squad, when McIlroy will be a person of the leaders on the upstart European group.

McIlroy did admit the Koepka-DeChambeau drama “is absolutely attracting more eyeballs on social media,” as very well as attracting more viewers and followers to the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, in which Koepka and DeChambeau are equally competing.

Koepka reported past week he thinks his feud with DeChambeau is useful for the sport.

“I assume it is excellent for the sport. I genuinely do,” Koepka instructed reporters past Wednesday ahead of the Palmetto Championship at Congaree. “The actuality that golf’s on really much each information outlet for about two months really consistently, I assume that’s a excellent thing. It is rising the sport.”

Koepka went on to explain why the feud is “getting golf in entrance of individuals.”

“You know, the young era … I get the traditionalists who really don’t concur with it. I fully grasp that,” he reported. “But I assume to grow the sport you have bought to reach out to the young era, and I assume that’s what — I really don’t want to say that’s what this is, but it is achieving out to a full bunch of individuals.”

Koepka and DeChambeau’s longstanding feud, which dates back again to 2019, reignited in May when a leaked movie confirmed Koepka starting to be visibly disappointed immediately after hearing DeChambeau’s voice in the track record of an job interview.

“Christ. I f–kin’ misplaced my coach of thought hearing that bulls–t. F–kin’ Christ,” Koepka reported at the time, before acquiring to re-shoot the job interview query he was initially requested.