Reset needed after LIV's 'false economy' - McIlroy

McIlroy said those connected to LIV Golf were "going around Augusta saying they wanted to destroy the European tour" as recently as this year's Masters in April but, for all those ambitions, the world number two feels the current situation was inevitable.

"They took players, they took sponsors [and] they turned professional golf into an arms race," he said.

"It was always going to be good for a few years until something like this happened, or they realised they weren't going to get any return on investment, or they were going to leave the golf space and go invest in something else and invest in something that would actually make them money."