PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan told a group of reporters Wednesday that his goal is to get both PGA Tour and LIV Golf players competing on one unified circuit. The commissioner, at Torrey Pines ahead of this week’s relocated Genesis Invitational,

Jay Monahan projected an optimistic tone, perhaps more so than at any time in the past two years about the state of men’s professional golf and the possibility of a PGA Tour deal with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.

When pressed about the matter, McIlroy provided no answers — not out of spite or because he wanted to keep things close to the chest, but because he had been kept out of the loop. McIlroy resigned from the PGA Tour Policy Board in November 2023.