Rory McIlroy has revealed that he is willing to rejoin the PGA Policy Board, just five months after stepping down with speculation suggesting that his return may happen as early as this week.
The four-time major winner resigned from the board last November amid the PGA TOUR’s efforts to conclude negotiations on its future funding and to focus on his own game.
Subject to a vote approving his return, McIlroy is set to replace Webb Simpson with an aim to accelerate merger talks between the PGA TOUR and LIV Golf.
McIlroy recently dismissed rumors circulating linking him to a big money move to the Saudi-funded LIV Golf.
Speaking to the media on Wednesday ahead of the Zurich Classic, McIlroy said: “I think I can be helpful.
“I don’t think there’s been much progress made in the last eight months, and I was hopeful that there would be. I think I could be helpful to the process.
“But only if people want me involved, I guess. When Webb and I talked and he talked about potentially coming off the board, I said, look, if it was something that other people wanted, I would gladly take that seat, and that was the conversation that we had.
“But yeah, I think that’s the whole reason. I feel like I can be helpful. I feel like I care a lot, and I have some pretty good experience and good connections within the game and sort of around the wider sort of ecosystem and everything that’s going on.
“But at the end of the day, it’s not quite up to me to just come back on the board. There’s a process that has to be followed.
“But I’m willing to do it if that’s what people want, I guess.”
The World No. 2 also expressed his belief that unity was “the only way forward for the game of golf”.
“We obviously realize the game is not unified right now for a reason, and there’s still some hard feelings and things that need to be addressed.
“But I think at this point for the good of the game, we all need to put those feelings aside and all move forward together.”
