Rory McIlroy: Bringing back LIV players ‘good business’ for PGA Tour

Rory McIlroy is softening his stance on the return of ‌players from LIV Golf to the PGA Tour, acknowledging Friday that bringing back more defectors from the breakaway circuit could be a net positive.
With the future of LIV in doubt after Saudi ​Arabia’s Public Investment Fund announced it is pulling its financial backing after this year, McIlroy was asked his reaction to how that could impact the PGA Tour.
“It’s a question if (players) do want to come back,” McIlroy said after ending the second round of the Truist Championship tied for eighth in Charlotte. “Obviously we have seen the quotes over the last few days.

And, you know, it seems like ... it all depends on what happens to LIV.
“But if it is a ‌scenario where they ‌have the option to come back and play ​on the ‌traditional ⁠tours, you ​know, ⁠I think (PGA Tour CEO) Brian Rolapp has said anything that makes this Tour stronger, anything that makes the DP World Tour stronger, I think everyone should be open to that.

That’s just good business practice.”
The six-time major champion added, “I think everyone sort of knows my views on LIV and where it stands in the game of golf. I don’t think I need to rehash any of that.

It’s never been for me ⁠and, look, it doesn’t mean that LIV is going to ‌go away. They’re going to go and try ‌and find alternative investment, whatever that may look like.
“But ​when one of the wealthiest sovereign ‌wealth funds in the world thinks that you’re too expensive for them, that ‌sort of says something.”
Earlier this year, five-time major winner Brooks Koepka accepted the terms of the PGA Tour’s Returning Member Program and came back from LIV.