Rory McIlroy is erring on the side of caution over the chances of men’s main golf circuits coming together in the near future.
The World No.3 played in the DP World Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship last week, which included amateurs playing alongside the professionals.
McIlroy was in the same group as PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan in the second round of the event. Then, in the third round, he played alongside another of the key figures at the top of the men’s game, the governor of the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) behind LIV Golf, Yasir Al-Rumayyan. Those encounters came after Monahan and Al-Rumayyan were paired together in the first round.
Jay Monahan and Yasir-Al Rumayyan were paired together in the opening round
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However, in an interview with The Scotsman, he admitted that, despite the appearances of Monahan and Al-Rumayyan at the event causing a considerable stir, the subject of the future of the men’s game wasn’t discussed that much.
He said: “It was good to spend some time with all of them and sort of talk a little bit about the situation, the goings on in the game. But, in fairness, it probably wasn’t as much talk about it as you would have thought.”
It wasn’t just the presence of Monahan and Al-Rumayyan in Scotland that created headlines at the event. There were also 14 LIV golfers in the field, and McIlroy admitted the best players coming together doesn’t happen enough nowadays.
He added: “It’s good to get most people together in terms of like, look at the field, you’ve got a mix of everyone in there, which is good. It is something that we don’t see as often as we should, but, you know, time will tell.”
Rory McIlroy played alongside Jay Monahan in the second round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship
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McIlroy then revealed he sees the chance of an agreement over PIF investment in the PGA Tour coming by the end of the year, but struck a more cautionary tone over a timeframe for determining how the circuits will coexist.
“I think by year’s end, whether the Public Investment Fund will invest in PGA Tour Enterprises, but that doesn’t solve the problem of where we find ourselves in golf, the schedule and everything,” he explained.
“I mean, I’d say we’ll…
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