Rory McIlroy may not have been in attendance for the in-person meetings between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund last week in New York, but he still knows more than most when it comes to the slowly progressing potential deal between the tour and LIV Golf's financial backers.

Rory McIlroy has left the American circuit to play the rest ... On the other hand, his business partner, Tiger Woods, has been the one to say that the Tour was not in absolute need of the PIF’s investment. Then how come both players might be in the ...

Rory McIlroy doesn't view the made-for-TV match between stars from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf as a message, more like a glimpse of the possibilities of what can happen, and what has been missing in golf since the great divide.