Rory McIlroy says the return of Brooks Koepka to the PGA Tour might recommend that the rival LIV Golf tour is in decline.

Koepka, 35, is again on the PGA Tour after controversially becoming a member of the Saudi Arabian-backed LIV collection in 2022.

He has agreed to make a $5m (£3.7m) charitable donation as a part of his return, will forego any cost from the FedExCup Bonus scheme in the course of the 2026 season and will probably be ineligible for the Tour’s participant fairness programme between 2026-2030, which might quantity to between $50-85m.

Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau and Cam Smith have all indicated they are going to stay with LIV Golf however the lack of any new signings means that the facility could also be shifting, based on McIlroy.

“It isn’t as in the event that they made any enormous signings this yr, is it?” the Northern Irishman advised The Every day Telegraph, exterior.

“They have not signed anybody who strikes the needle and I do not suppose they are going to.

“I imply, they might re-sign Bryson for a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}, however even when they do, it would not change their product does it?

“They will simply be paying for the very same factor. They usually’ve misplaced Brooks.”

Former US Open champion Wyndham Clark, who performed within the 2023 Ryder Cup alongside Koepka, says he’s “torn” on his compatriot’s return to the PGA calendar after turning down an method from LIV himself.

“I personally actually like Brooks, and I believe it is in the end actually good for the PGA Tour, but in addition, you realize, a man that had a chance to go to LIV, it is sort of irritating that he is in a position to get the cake and in addition eat it,” Clark stated.

“I had the provide. It was simply over a yr and a half in the past. And should you would have advised me that I might have gone for a yr and a half, make a boatload of cash after which be capable to come again and play on the Tour, I believe virtually everybody would have carried out that.”