Rory McIlroy has spoken out on Tiger Woods‘ and PGA Tour officials reported meeting with LIV Golf’s Saudi Arabian backers in New York a day before the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
The world’s two biggest golf companies have been in talks about a merger for over a year, with the meeting taking place in order to possibly finally come to terms with one another.
‘It’s certainly peculiar timing,’ McIlroy said of the reported September 10 talks. ‘I don’t know much about the talks that are going on. I know that there is but that’s not something that I’m a part of.’
‘I think we are all in the game of golf trying to look for a solution to all this and try to move forward. So we’ll see, yeah. I know as much as you do at this point, and I’m sure news will start to trickle out here in the next few days.’
Fifteen of the 19 September 11 attackers were Saudis but the Saudi government has always denied being involved in the attacks.