Rory McIlroy's Champions League future for golf may be merger's best hope

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It has been a year since the PGA Tour and LIV Golf's backers struck a 'framework agreement' to reunify the professional game, but progress has been minimal since and Rory McIlroy's vision stands out

A year has passed since the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV Golf backer, the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund , announced a "framework agreement" for the organizations to merge and end golf's civil war.

There is a consensus that the game needs to be reunified to ensure the best players from the three tours are competing together more often, but how that looks is up for debate. One proposal that looms large came from Rory McIlroy in January. The move would see the tours remain active, with the best players from each circuit qualifying for a new competition, giving fans chances to see the world's best competing more often."The way I view it is a bit like Champions League in football," McIlroy explained. "t's like the best of the best in Europe, and then all of the other leagues feed up into it.

 

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