Rory McIlroy knows a thing or two about highly publicized splits.

And he isn’t getting his hopes up about golf’s two biggest tours getting back together any time soon.

The Northern Irish golf star threw cold water on the notion of seeing the PGA Tour and LIV Golf merge after the breakaway league formed in 2021.

Speaking during CNBC’s CEO Council Forum on Thursday, McIlroy called the Saudi-backed organization’s spending “irrational” and that it would be difficult to see how the much-talked about merger will happen.

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“You see some of these other sports that have been fractured for so long,” McIlroy said. “You look at boxing for example, or you look at what’s happened in motor racing in the United States with Indy and NASCAR and e

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