Matt Fitzpatrick missed the cut here at the Players Championship on Friday, but was then unerring with his accuracy in taking dead aim at the PGA Tour and its ‘strategic alliance” with his home circuit.

The Englishman is no fan of LIV Golf, as he showed by declaring earlier this week that there should not be a path back to the traditional Tour for any rebels who are having second thoughts.

Yet neither does he believe that the decision in Wentworth HQ to eschew the advances of the Saudi-funded league and instead go into what seems to many as “a junior partnership” with the PGA Tour has been particularly beneficial to the DP World Tour.

“I don’t think the ‘strategic alliance’ is everything it's made out to be,” Fitzpatrick said. “My biggest gripe is that the PGA Tour isn’t doing enough to help build up the DP World Tour.