Rory McIlroy said the rift between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf is too wide, effectively negating any chance of a reunification in the sport of golf. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t see a world where it can happen at this point,\u201d second-ranked McIlroy said at Emirates Golf Club ahead of this week\u2019s Dubai Desert Classic.<\/p>\n
McIlroy\u2019s comments came on the heels of the PGA Tour reinstating former LIV Golf team captain Brooks Koepka through a new Returning Member Program that offers a window for select players to return.<\/p>\n
A vocal critic of LIV Golf, McIlroy said he doesn\u2019t think either side will ever make the necessary concessions for a proper reunification.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t see a world where the two or three sides or whoever it is will give up enough,\u201d McIlroy, 36, said. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they are too far apart for that to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last week, McIlroy aimed at LIV Golf with a comment to The Telegraph of London: \u201cIt\u2019s not as if they made any huge signings this year, is it? They haven\u2019t signed anyone who moves the needle, and I don\u2019t think they will.\u201d<\/p>\n
McIlroy, who owns a career grand slam among his 29 PGA Tour victories, then turned his attention to his future goals on the golf course.<\/p>\n
\u201cOlympic medal. Open at St Andrews. Yeah, maybe like a US Open at one of those, like old, traditional golf courses, whether it\u2019s Shinnecock this year or Winged Foot or Pebble Beach or Merion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have told you two years ago, if I won the Masters it would have been great, and I could have retired or whatever. But when you keep doing things, the goalposts keep moving, and you keep finding new things you want to do.\u201d \u2014 Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy said the rift between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf is too wide, effectively negating any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[18248,49,48,136925,622,178512,178510,178509,178514,178507,178508,6674,178513,178516,178515,3747,100784,178517,1976,178511,82],"class_list":["post-427784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-brooks-koepka","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump-golf","tag-golf","tag-golf-circuits","tag-golf-competition","tag-golf-majors","tag-golf-reunification","tag-golf-schism","tag-hero-dubai-desert-classic","tag-liv-golf","tag-masters-tournament","tag-mens-professional-golf","tag-pga-and-liv-divide","tag-pga-tour","tag-professional-golf","tag-professional-golf-circuits","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-rory-mcilroy-comments","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}