"There's no better place than the home of golf to try and get everyone together and talking," McIlroy told BBC Northern Ireland. "I think it's a great thing and good sign that Jay and Yasir are going to play together.

Rory McIlroy has welcomed the presence of the key figures in golf’s civil war in this week’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and expects news on a deal “definitely before the year’s end”. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is partnering Billy Horschel in the pro-am event and will be in the same group as Yasir Al-Rumayyan,

LIV Golf boss Yasir Al-Rumayyan is playing alongside PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, but may have fallen foul of a local rule