Irish professional golfer Rory McIlroy is distancing himself from President Trump after receiving criticism for golfing with the president at Mar-a-Lago last week.

“I don’t agree with everything my friends or family say or do, but I still play golf with them,” McIlroy wrote in a statement posted to Twitter on Friday. “Last week, I was invited to play golf with the president of the United States. Whether you respect the person who holds that position or not, you respect the office that he holds. This wasn’t an endorsement nor a political statement of any kind. It was, quite simply, a round of golf. Golf was our common ground, nothing else.”