Rory McIlroy confidence in golf peace deal hits new low

"Jimmy was basically 'the' relationship, the sort of conduit between the PGA Tour and PIF."

Rory McIlroy chips to the green on the 16th hole during a practice round for the PGA Championship. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Rory McIlroy and Pádraig Harrington continue to push for the PGA Tour to make a deal with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia to heal the fracture in the game made by LIV Golf. Neither believes that a solution is close enough at hand.

McIlroy lamented on Wednesday the resignation earlier in the week from the PGA Tour Policy Board of Jimmy Dunne, the man who began the process of bringing the PGA Tour and PIF’s governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan together last year. Dunne said his role on the board felt “utterly superfluous.”