At this week’s Dunhill Links, which features both PGA Tour and LIV Golf stars, Rory McIlroy hinted at when pro golf may come back together.

Rory McIlroy believes professional male golf must ditch at least some of its cherished “traditions” if a peace deal is to be reached with the Saudis to send the sport into a new prosperous age.

So it is that, Thursday at Carnoustie, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and his professional partner, Billy Horschel, will tee-up alongside Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the man who runs Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and his partner, LIV Golf League player Dean Burmester.