Sergio Garcia has shifted stance on Rory McIlroy after LIV Golf concession

Sergio Garcia has seen his narration with Rory McIlroy tested since helium joined the LIV Golf league, but tensions look to beryllium cooling with the 'merger' talks ongoing

Sergio Garcia has praised Rory McIlroy 's displacement successful stance towards LIV Golf, indicating a thawing of tensions wrong the sport.

The pair, who were erstwhile adjacent friends and Ryder Cup teammates, saw their narration strained erstwhile Garcia chose to permission the PGA Tour and DP World Tour for the LIV setup. This determination was met with disapproval from McIlroy, who was 1 of the astir vocal opponents of the breakaway league.

However, 2 years on, it seems McIlroy has had a alteration of bosom regarding the Saudi-funded league, arsenic the PGA Tour is presently successful talks with LIV bosses astir a imaginable bid deal.

Garcia expressed his support of McIlroy 's caller outlook connected the LIV league to Golf Magic, saying: "I deliberation it's great. I deliberation astatine the extremity of the time it shows we're each precise affectional and we effort to support our positions and worldly similar that, but astatine the extremity of the day, it shows we each privation to spell successful the aforesaid absorption and marque play better.

"That's the astir important thing. Rory has seen that, helium realises that trying to combat each different is not going to assistance anyone, and it's decidedly not going to assistance the game."

McIlroy's alteration successful cognition seemed to beryllium confirmed astatine past week's Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, wherever helium played alongside LIV president Yasir Al-Rumayyan successful the Pro-Am event.

On the inaugural time which saw Al-Rumayyan tee disconnected alongside PGA Tour Commissioner and chap negotiator, Jay Monahan Rory McIlroy appeared to beryllium successful bully spirits, engaging successful a affable chat with the Saudi authoritative connected the driving range. They past took their speech to the fairways the pursuing day.

Garcia gave his thumbs up to the blooming rapport among Scotland's play hierarchy. "I anticipation it's moving person [to unification]," helium said. "I don't cognize precisely what they talked astir past week but yea I anticipation it went well.

"I deliberation that's the extremity for everyone. I privation it had happened a portion back, but you know, everyone has their ain agendas successful a mode and the mode they privation things to happen. But look, it's good, they [Monahan and Al-Rumayyan] are sitting, they are talking, it's a bully commencement and hopefully we volition perceive thing soon."

Echoing the sentiment for collaboration, McIlroy emphasised the value of sermon wrong the sport. "There's nary amended spot than the location of play to effort and get everyone unneurotic and talking," helium mentioned past week.

"I deliberation it's a large happening and a bully motion that Jay and Yasir are going to play unneurotic connected Thursday, and you've got rather a large contingent from LIV that are playing this event."

He added, driving the constituent home: "It's a substance of trying to get each the antithetic constituents connected committee due to the fact that I deliberation the sponsors privation the aforesaid thing. I deliberation everyone conscionable wants to spot the crippled of play travel backmost unneurotic and person each of the champion players playing together."

"And effort to marque it a spot much global, arsenic well. I deliberation determination are a batch of radical connected committee with that and it's conscionable a substance of trying to enactment done the assorted benignant of analyzable issues that determination are to effort to get it done."