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Sergio Garcia provides update on Rory McIlroy relationship after LIV Golf split

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Sergio Garcia provides update on Rory McIlroy relationship after LIV Golf split

Sergio Garcia still sees his former Ryder Cup teammate Rory McIlroy as a ‘friend’ despite the pair finding themselves on opposite sides of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf fallout.

Garcia became one of the marquee names to leave the PGA Tour and sign with the Saudi-backed setup two years ago. McIlroy meanwhile shared contrasting views, as the Northern Irishman announced himself as one of the LIV’s setup’s staunches critics.




Towards the end of 2022 in the midst of golf’s civil war, McIlroy revealed that Garcia had sent him a text message at that year’s US Open in June, telling him to ‘shut up’ when it came to bad-mouthing the newly-formed breakaway league.

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“He was basically telling me to shut up about LIV, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,” the 2014 Open champion told the Irish Independent. “I was pretty offended and sent him back a couple of daggers and that was it.” Since then, the pair appeared to have gone to lengths to fix their relationship.

A year on from their text message bust-up, Garcia admitted his wife Angela had spoken to McIlroy at the 2023 US Open, which led to the European pair rekindling their friendship. “Angela and Rory said ‘Hi’ to each other at the US Open,” the LIV Golf star said last June.

“And there was a nice text from Rory to her. That kind of gave me the go-ahead to reach out to him. I had been thinking about it for a while but I wasn’t totally sure about it. And when I saw that reaction from him, he kind of gave me the go-ahead to get closer. We had a great chat.

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