Billy Horschel hits back at LIV Golf talk over his Presidents Cup place

Billy Horschel has hit back at those out there who claim he has only made Davis Love's United States Presidents Cup team this week as a result of several players joining LIV Golf. 

Horschel, who finished 11th in the points list for the 2022 US Presidents Cup team, received one of Love's six captain's picks in the side to face Trevor Immelman's International team at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte. 

Billy Horschel should be thanking his lucky stars that #LIVGolf exists.

— LIV Golf GO (@LIVGolfGO) September 21, 2022

But despite firmly playing his way into the reckoning for Love's 12-man team, there are some fans out there on social media who do not think he (or Max Homa) would have made the side had the likes of LIV Golf players Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson (who has resigned his membership) still been around on the PGA Tour. 

"I mean, I know there's been a lot of chatter about it on both sides, at least the players who went to the LIV Tour," said Horschel, a seven-time winner on the PGA Tour.

"Then as Max [Homa] sort of indicated Sunday after he won, there was a lot of people on social media that like to chime in. What he's heard, I've heard as well, I only made the team because the LIV guys left the [PGA] Tour.

"I mean, those are just people that don't know what the F they're talking about. If they would have seen the points list when they left the Tour, Max and I were clearly in the top 12. So it doesn't bother us one bit."

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Who are the players on the 2022 United States Presidents Cup team? 

Automatic qualifiers:

• Scottie Scheffler
• Patrick Cantlay
• Xander Schauffele
• Sam Burns
• Justin Thomas
• Tony Finau

Captain's picks:

• Jordan Spieth
• Collin Morikawa
• Max Homa
• Billy Horschel
• Cameron Young
• Kevin Kisner

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