Rory McIlroy said the rift between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf is too wide, effectively negating any chance for a reunification in the sport of golf.
“I just don’t see a world where it can happen at this point,” the world No 2 McIlroy said on Wednesday at Emirates Golf Club ahead of this week’s Dubai Desert Classic.
McIlroy’s comments came on the heels of the PGA Tour reinstating former LIV Golf team captain Brooks Koepka through a new Returning Member Programme that offers a window for select players to return.
A very vocal critic of LIV Golf, McIlroy said he doesn’t feel either side ever will make appropriate concessions in order for a proper reunification.
“I don’t see a world where the two or three sides or whoever it is will give up enough,” McIlroy, 36, said. “Like for reunification to happen, every side is going to feel like they will have lost, where you really want every side to feel like they have won.
“I think they are just too far apart for that to happen.”