LIV Golf: Rory McIlroy says players returning to PGA Tour would be 'good business'

Rory McIlroy is four shots off the lead after the second round of the Truist Championship

Rory McIlroy says bringing back LIV Golf defectors would be "good business" for the PGA Tour amid doubts over the future of the breakaway series.

In April, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced it will withdraw its multibillion dollar backing at the end of the year.

In response, LIV announced a "strategic evolution" - including a newly established independent board - as it bids to find replacement financial investors.

But Masters champion McIlroy, long a fierce critic of the series, has questioned its ability to find new backing, saying: "When one of the wealthiest sovereign wealth funds in the world thinks that you're too expensive for them, that sort of says something."