Rory McIlroy makes remarkable Donald Trump and LIV Golf claim: 'This clears the way'

Rory McIlroy believes that Donald Trump being President of the United States erstwhile much could person a immense interaction connected golf's civilian warfare with the process of negotiating a bid woody having stalled somewhat successful the past year

Rory McIlroy believes caller US President Donald Trump could assistance “clear the way” for a bid woody successful golf's civilian war.

The four-time large winner besides said the imaginable engagement of Twitter proprietor Elon Musk, a protagonist of Trump - who has stormed into a 2nd stint successful the White House - could velocity up the process. Talks betwixt the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which bankrolls LIV Golf, person been ongoing since the signing of a model statement successful June 2023.

McIlroy said successful September that a 50-50 divided betwixt players connected some sides and the US Department of Justice represented the biggest obstacles to a deal, with the DOJ having already forced a non-solicitation clause to beryllium removed from the model agreement.

However, the incoming president volition beryllium capable to power the priorities of the DOJ and Trump has a adjacent narration with Saudi Arabia and LIV Golf, with respective of their 54-hole events being staged astatine Trump-owned courses.

Speaking successful a property league up of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, McIlroy was asked if helium would beryllium amazed if a woody had already been completed, arsenic was reported successful a nationalist paper astatine the weekend.

“Yeah, I would, but past evidently fixed today’s quality with what’s happened successful America, I deliberation that clears the mode a small bit. So we’ll see,” McIlroy, who played successful the aforesaid radical arsenic PIF politician Yasir Al-Rumayyan successful the Dunhill Links Championship recently, said.

McIlroy besides agreed with the proposition that the DOJ being much amenable to a woody would beryllium “a immense moment” and was asked successful a abstracted interrogation astir Trump’s assertion that helium could unafraid a woody successful 15 minutes.

“He mightiness beryllium capable to,” McIlroy told Sky Sports. “He’s got Elon Musk, who I deliberation is the smartest antheral successful the world, beside him. We mightiness beryllium capable to bash thing if we tin get Musk involved, too.

“Yeah, I deliberation from the extracurricular looking in, it’s astir apt a small little analyzable than it really is. But evidently Trump has a large narration with Saudi Arabia. He’s got a large narration with golf. He’s a person of golf. So, maybe. Who knows?

“But I deliberation arsenic the President of the United States again, he’s astir apt got bigger things to absorption connected than golf.”