Rory McIlroy hopes the presence on the Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship of the 2 males centrally concerned in talks aimed toward ending the cut up in males’s skilled golf is a “good signal” progress is being made.
McIlroy, competing with father Gerry on this week’s pro-am occasion in Scotland, will play on Friday at Kingsbarns alongside PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, who’s paired with Billy Horschel this week.
World quantity three McIlroy will then tee up with the boss of Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund (PIF) Yasir Al-Rumayyan and South African LIV golf participant Dean Burmester at St Andrews on Saturday.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund underwrites the 48-competitor LIV Golf league which has signed up most of the world’s finest gamers over the past three years together with Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Cameron Smith and Dustin Johnson.
Monahan and Al-Rumayyan shall be in the identical fourball together with their professionals on Thursday’s day one once they tee off at Carnoustie.
“There’s no higher place than the house of golf to try to get everybody collectively and speaking,” McIlroy advised BBC Sport NI.
“I feel it’s a terrific factor and good signal that Jay and Yasir are going to play collectively. And clearly you’ve bought fairly a giant contingent over from LIV which are taking part in on this occasion.”
