Rory McIlroy has revealed that he will not be rejoining the PGA Policy Board by stating that he would instead “just keep doing what I’m doing.”
The four-time major winner stepped down from the board in November of last year amidst the PGA TOUR’s endeavors to finalize negotiations regarding its future funding, opting to concentrate on his personal game instead.
McIlroy was poised to take over from Webb Simpson with the intention of expediting merger discussions between the PGA TOUR and LIV Golf but stated ahead of this weeks Wells Fargo Championship that conversations “got pretty complicated and pretty messy”.
“With the way it happened, it opened up some wounds and scar tissue from things that have happened before and I think there was a subset of people on the board who were uncomfortable with me coming back on for some reason.
“I think the best course of action is, if there [are] some people on there who aren’t comfortable with coming back on, then I think Webb stays on and sees out his term.
“He’s got to a place where he’s comfortable with doing that. I just keep doing what I’m doing.
“I put my hand up to help and it was — I wouldn’t say it was rejected, it was a complicated process to get through to put me back on there. So that’s all fine, no hard feelings and we’ll all move on.”
McIlroy drew parallels between the situation involving the two golf circuits and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, a pivotal historical event credited with bringing an end to conflicts in Northern Ireland.
“I sort of liken it to like when Northern Ireland went through the peace process in the ’90s and the Good Friday Agreement. Neither side was happy,” McIlroy said.
“Catholics weren’t happy, Protestants weren’t happy, but it brought peace and then you just sort of learn to live with whatever has been negotiated, right?”