CAN WE LIV TOGETHER?

Rory desperate to reunify game but says: 'I don't think there's been much progress over the last eight months'

- NEIL MCLEMAN

RORY MCILROY wants to return to the PGA Tour policy board this week to drive through a unification deal with the Saudi Public Investment Fund.

The world No.2 was the leading critic of LIV Golf until last June's shock "framework agreement" between the two warring sides.

He quit his role on the board in November after admitting he felt like a "sacrificial lamb" and now supports a peace deal to see the PIF invest in the PGA Tour.

Tiger Woods (right) reported "positive" talks in the Bahamas last month with Newcastle chairman and PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan but an agreement is still to be struck. Now McIlroy is ready to replace Webb Simpson on the policy board he still needs unanimous approval to return - and get involved in talks.