LOUISVILLE — Rory McIlroy didn’t address the elephant in the room in a news conference on Wednesday, declining to talk about his impending divorce in even the most general possible terms, except to say that “I'm ready to play this week.”
The bigger elephant in the room, though — the state of professional golf as a whole — well, McIlroy took that beast head-on, and hurled it right into the laps of those players who insist that there is no cause for alarm and all is well.
On Monday night news broke that PGA Tour board member Jimmy Dunne, the architect of the Tour’s initial agreement with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, had resigned from the board.