Rory McIlroy said it will be difficult for the PGA Tour and LIV Golf to reach an agreement so long as the Saudi-backed league continues to spend “irrationally.”

Speaking at the CNBC CEO Council Forum, the world’s No. 2-ranked golfer doesn’t see a pathway for the reunification of the professional golf world any time soon.

“You see some of these other sports that have been fractured for so long,” McIlroy said, per ESPN. “You look at boxing for example, or you look at what’s happened in motor racing in the United States with Indy and NASCAR and everything else, I think for golf in general it would be better if there was unification.

“But I just think with what’s happened over the last few years, it’s just going to be very difficult to be able to do that.”

LIV Golf has totaled more than $1

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