Some on site described the scene as tense: Warming up on the range Monday at Adare Manor, which will host a Ryder Cup in five years, were a collection of players, both LIV and non-LIV, as well as PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and DP World Tour chief executive Keith Pelley.
In total, there were 10 guys who have joined the Saudi-backed rival league teeing it up in the two-day J.P. McManus Pro-Am – Paul Casey, Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Martin Kaymer, Brooks Koepka, Graeme McDowell, Pat Perez, Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood and Bernd Wiesberger.
But in the eyes of at least one non-LIV player, the environment wasn’t nearly as awkward.