Rory McIlroy discusses PGA Tour future amid LIV Golf uncertainty

Rory McIlroy has spoken out about the future of the PGA Tour ahead of his US Open bid.

The PGA Tour has undergone a number of changes over the last few years in response to the threat posed by LIV Golf, that saw the likes of Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton leave.

The most notable change has been the introduction of Signature Events, attracting the best players on the Tour to compete for significantly enhanced prize funds, which in turn has led to something of a two-tier PGA Tour.

While LIV's future is in doubt, the PGA Tour announced their intention for further changes that will essentially create a two-tier tour, something McIlroy has now expressed doubt over.

“Track 2 is a glorified Korn Ferry event,” McIlroy said. “That’s what Track 2 is going to be. I don't think the Canadian Open should be one of those. And I think certain events might lose their stature if a sponsor doesn't pony up $30,000,000.

"But, I’m not in those rooms. I play my schedule, and I’ll continue to play my schedule, which is getting less and less as the years go on."

McIlroy stepped down from his role on the PGA Tour policy board to focus more on his golf -- a decision that coincided with back-to-back Masters wins -- and the six-time major winner says that for all the recent changes, he now feels the old PGA Tour was the best structure.

“It’s funny; they’ve done all this work, and you start to realise that the way the Tour was before LIV came along was actually pretty good," McIlroy added.

"It was a pretty good structure, and everything sort of worked pretty well. LIV created this false economy where we had to up prize funds and had to cut fields and try to support the top players and all that stuff, which I think needed to happen because that was the only way to retain talent at the time, but now that LIV looks like it’s less of a threat, I think, as I said, the old ways of the PGA Tour weren’t actually that bad."