With tongue-in-cheek joke, Scottie Scheffler weighs in on cash and Ryder Cup pay-for-play

NASSAU, Bahamas – For all of the followers who’re bored with listening to about purse sizes, participant fairness and potential offers with overseas funding funds, know that Scottie Scheffler shares your fatigue.

“I feel more often than not we simply speak about cash and the way the purses should be larger,” stated Scheffler, his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, when requested what he and Tiger Woods talked about Wednesday on the Hero World Problem. “At the moment we actually grinded on the Ryder Cup and the way it’s simply such BS that we’ve by no means gotten paid. Tiger was actually pissed off, he seems like he hasn’t made sufficient cash in his profession.”

Woods stated Tuesday that he hopes gamers get a bigger sum of cash to compete within the Ryder Cup, however that the cash needs to be used for charity.

Following a report in The Telegraph final month, the fixation on participant compensation turned to the Ryder Cup and a possible plan that may pay U.S. gamers to take part within the matches.

In line with the report, the U.S. gamers could be paid $400,000 subsequent yr at Bethpage Black in New York, though it stays unclear if that cash could be given to charities or if it will be strictly participant compensation (gamers at the moment obtain $200,000 to designate to charity).

Predictably the report drew a robust response from the European facet with Rory McIlroy telling BBC Sports activities, “I personally would pay for the privilege to play on the Ryder Cup.” Scheffler agreed.

“Each certainly one of our gamers would pay to play within the Ryder Cup if that’s what was requested of us,” the world No. 1 stated. “I feel it’s a bit bit foolish for a match that makes a whole lot of tens of millions of {dollars} to ask for the gamers to pay as nicely, however I feel all of us would. I positively would.”

Justin Thomas sided with Scheffler, though, he appeared to maintain the door open for potential fee to U.S. gamers.

“It’s a bizarre, sensitive topic and also you’re type of damned in the event you do, damned in the event you don’t,” Thomas stated. “I’m not on the enterprise facet of issues, however I see each side. On the finish of the day, I feel, together with the remainder of the USA and Europe, we nonetheless love the Ryder Cup and we clearly are going to play regardless. I feel it may simply be one thing the place some individuals simply really feel that that’s what it’s and, you realize, so be it. I hope to be there it doesn’t matter what.”