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Once former close friends, Rory McIlroy and Sergio Garcia look as if they are going to pass over the last year and get back in contact.

The two were a star pairing at the 2014 Ryder Cup, and the Northern Irishman was best man at Garcia’s wedding in 2017, but their friendship became broken during the LIV controversy.

In June last year, Golf Monthly reported that the relationship between the two had completely deteriorated due to the Spaniard’s decision to join LIV Golf.

The story also said that the rhetoric between McIlroy and Garcia had turned “bitter and personal.” With the U.S. Open taking place June 16th-19th, the timeline would indicate that the clash via text could have accelerated the rapid decline of the Garcia-McIlroy friendship in addition to Garcia’s controversial decision to join LIV despite knowing it would most likely end with him being ineligible to participate in future Ryder Cups.

During last year’s US Open Rory revealed that he received the text message while doing an interview with the Irish Independent, saying, “He was basically telling me to shut up about LIV, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.”

The 33-year-old said that he “was pretty offended and sent him back a couple of daggers and that was it.”

However, as reported in the Independent, the two happened to cross paths on the final day of the US Open last week.

As Garcia was teeing off on the 18th hole, McIlroy was walking around his eagle putt on the first green. According to the report, McIlroy ‘put his right little finger to his mouth and his thumb to his ear’, clearly indicating he would phone his foe.

Perhaps that was the continuation of a snippet from Spanish golf site Ten Golf, revealing Garcia had sent a text to McIlroy with an offer to sort out their differences.

Whatever the views on the alliance overseen by PIF, getting these two stars on the same plane to the Marco Simone Club in September would be a triumph. 

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