Rory McIlroy said Wednesday he wasn't trying to send a message by agreeing to team up with world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler in a made-for-TV match against LIV Golf League stars Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in December.
Last week's announcement of the match came as officials from the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund prepared to meet in New York this week to continue talks about a potential investment that might bring the fractured sport back together.
The PIF is financing LIV Golf, which has lured DeChambeau, Koepka, Jon Rahm and others from the PGA Tour. «I don't know much about the talks that are going on.
I know that there is but that's not something that I'm a part of,» McIlroy said Wednesday during a news conference at the Irish Open. «Yeah, I mean, I think we are all in the game of golf trying to look for a solution to all this and try to move forward.