And just like that the guns stopped firing. Peace has broken out in golf after a year that was more bitter, toxic and fractious than almost anything in recent sporting history.
In a shock statement at 3pm on Tuesday, the PGA Tour and DP World Tour announced across 1,030 jolting words that they were joining hands with LIV in the most unlikely of unions.
Such was the level of surprise that even Greg Norman, LIV's disruptor-in-chief, is understood to have been in the dark until a few minutes before his bosses in Riyadh authorised the release. His future is one of many unanswered questions as this bizarre and inconceivable marriage begins its fumble for functionality.