On Monday, the DP World Tour mentioned gamers who signal as much as LIV’s 2027 season won’t be allowed to be members of the Europe-based circuit.
McIlroy, who was chatting with Bloomberg in New Delhi earlier than enjoying within the DP World India Championship, added: “It appears to be like like day by day that goes by, there’s one other participant that was on LIV who says that they are not going to rejoin for LIV 2.0.
“So I feel it’ll be very troublesome for them to get out of this Chapter 11 chapter and go ahead.
“In the event that they do, it is actually not going to be a risk to the standard order of the sport as perhaps it as soon as was.”
As one of many PGA Tour’s greatest stars, McIlroy instantly grew to become a vocal opponent of LIV when it fractured males’s skilled golf 4 years in the past.
Requested about his long-standing criticism, he mentioned he and 15-time main winner Tiger Woods voiced their displeasure at LIV’s emergence as a result of “we had been in all probability the 2 that had essentially the most to lose”.
“We each felt this wasn’t good for the sport and it was going to fracture the sport,” he added.
“But additionally, everybody across the recreation has pursuits and we had been about to launch TGL (Tomorrow’s Golf League) and we thought LIV may have taken one thing away from TGL, which it did as a result of some gamers went to LIV and also you needed to be a PGA Tour member to play in TGL.
“Everybody has totally different pursuits within the recreation. You are making an attempt to guard your pursuits but additionally the pursuits of the sport as a complete.”
