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Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy did not find out about the secret deal to end golf's civil war until the day it was announced, it has emerged.
In a development that will raise eyebrows and potentially pile pressure onto Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour commissioner confirmed the two biggest active names in the sport were kept in the dark throughout the extraordinary negotiations to broker peace with the Saudi-backed LIV series.
It was only a short while before the bombshell merger was disclosed that they were informed, which throws up the powderkeg issue of how they might react. Both men have been staunch opponents of LIV, especially McIlroy, and each rejected eye-watering sums to join the breakaway circuit.
In Woods' case, the package was worth north of £650million and the carrot dangled for McIlroy was in the region of £400m. Having shunned those astonishing sums, while also doing the PGA Tour's bidding in speaking out against LIV's hostile takeover, golf insiders are fascinated to see how they will publicly respond to Tuesday's unification.
When asked if there was any regret in not informing his two star names in
