Rory McIlroy may not have been in attendance for the in-person meetings between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund last week in New York, but he still knows more than most when it comes to the slowly progressing potential deal between the tour and LIV Golf's financial backers.

Daughter Poppy was getting the blame for passing it to her father. But the bug that dotted Rory McIlroy’s press conference on the eve of the BMW PGA Championship with occasional coughs and spluttering didn’t stop the four-time major champion from being his usual thought-provoking self.

So it’s no wonder an agreement between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf has not yet been finalized. The U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee of Investigations (PSI) has held three separate hearings related to the PGA Tour’s pending deal with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF),