Rory McIlroy and Sergio Garcia end LIV Golf civil war as wives mend fences after THAT bitter text spat

Sergio Garcia and Rory McIlroy have kissed and made-up – thanks to their wives. Garcia’s decision last summer to join LIV Golf caused a deep divide between the pair who had been friends for so years. Bitter texts were exchanged as the game plunged into a civil war that never looked as if a truce was going to be called. As McIlory became the unofficial spokesperson of the PGA Tour in opposition to the splinter group, a long friendship was obliterated.

The Irishman and Spaniard had been pals well before playing together on the European Ryder Cup team, and that relationship only grew with both pulling on the same team colours. Indeed their friendship was so strong McIlroy was an usher at Garcia’s wedding to Angela Akins while the Garcias had been a guest at McIlroy’s big day. But the bonhomie was finally killed off in a back and forth text conversation. Garcia told McIlory to “shut up about LIV”. However, the four-time major winning McIlroy also recently revealed an explosive text-message exchange with Garcia, who he said was “basically telling me to shut up about LIV, blah, blah, blah.” He said he was “offended” by Garcia’s words and replied with “a couple of daggers.”

But after one year of poison, the wounds have begun to heal. Garcia responded: “At the end of the day, the important thing is that Rory and I, we got together, we talked, we had a great, great conversation with two, two friends that wanted to get back to that spot. And that’s the most important thing.” Garcia was asked what was the ‘saddest’ aspect of the breakdown in the relationship. He replied: “Our friendship! That was definitely the saddest part of all of these, some of those friendships and they kind of went a little sour. “At the end of the day,