Four-time major championship winner Rory McIlroy is poised to return to the PGA Tour’s policy board, pending a vote by the board, which could come as early as this week, sources confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday.
One of the PGA Tour’s most vocal supporters during its three-year battle with LIV Golf, McIlroy abruptly resigned as a player director on the tour’s influential policy board in November.
He is expected to replace policy board player director Webb Simpson, who intends to step away before his two-year term expires in 2025.
McIlroy’s potential return comes at a time when the PGA Tour is attempting to negotiate a final agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which is financing the rival LIV Golf League.
McIlroy, the No. 2 golfer in the world, previously joined the tour’s policy board in 2022 and was expected to serve through 2024. He cited personal and professional commitments in making his decision to leave the board in November.
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