"I saw what TimFinchem had to say and it seems like the European Tour is going to go a different way, " McIlroy told a press conference ahead of the Honda Open.
" PGA Tour Commissioner TimFinchem, a former adviser to President Jimmy Carter, noted during the Mickelson brouhaha that "there are businesses relocating out of California because they can operate better in states that have lower tax rates.
"Essentially where the PGA Tour came down was that they did not think that banning anchoring was in the best interest of golf or the PGA Tour, " the circuit's commissioner TimFinchem told a press conference at the World Golf Championship event at Dove Mountain.