“The division between the PGA Tour and the LIV is unsustainable and a shame”

The current division between PGA Tour and LIV Golfsupported by Saudi Arabia, “is not sustainable and will not benefit anyone in the long term,” he said Rory McIlroy in ‘Golf Monthly’ this Tuesday.

The four-time major champion said it was frustrating as a player to see top golfers playing on separate tours for most of the year.

“There must be a solution. “I think that what is happening right now is unsustainable, so something has to happen to try to restore everything and so that we can all move forward so that we don’t suffer in this division, which is a shame,” added the Briton.

“They keep going down different paths and I don’t see how it benefits anyone in the long term… I think it’s a shame for golf in general,” said the Northern Irishman. Although negotiations on a merger between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf are ongoing (the planned agreement is taking a long time), McIlroy assured that “we are probably still a long way from agreement, but I hope that in the future we will we will get there. , unite golf and bring the best players together again,” he highlighted.

Talks between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf are ongoing and the American tour reached a $3 billion investment deal in January with a consortium of American sports team owners called the Strategic Sports Group (SSG).

The PGA Tour is willing to go solo with SSG if a deal isn’t reached with LIV Golf, it was announced last month Jay Monahan, circuit commissioner. “Ultimately, LIV Golf has some of the best golfers in the world playing really good golf,” McIlroy concluded.

McIlroy will compete again in the Texas Open starting this Thursday in San Antonio in preparation for August Mastersthe only one of the four Grand Slams that remains to be conquered.