I still hate LIV and hope that it just goes away

WE CANNOT JUST WELCOME REBELS BACK IN SAYS RORY

- Neil McLeman

AFTER winning the RBS Canadian Open a year ago, Rory McIlroy also celebrated overtaking Greg Norman by winning his 21st PGA Tour title the weekend of the first LIV event in London.

"I had the extra of what's motivation going on across the pond," he said.

Twelve months on and, despite the peace deal struck this week, Mcllroy showed the rancour still ran deep by saying, "I still hate LIV", and calling for "consequences" for the rebels who left and sued the PGA Tour.

During an eventful 24 hours in the sport PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan acknowledged "people are going to call me a hypocrite" for taking Saudi money and Mcllroy was told to off" during a heated players'  meeting in Toronto. And in his pre-tournament press conference, Mcllroy revealed he was only told of the merger in a phone call on Tuesday morning.