(Reuters) - Four-times major winner Rory McIlroy believes the PGA Tour will eventually merge with the European Tour as it is "counter-productive" for them to compete against each other. The Northern Irishman said one way of achieving a unified circuit would be if the U.S.-based circuit bought the European Tour and continued to run its events. "The World Tour -- it's going to happen one day and I think it has to," McIlroy, who failed to qualify for this week's Tour Championship in Atlanta, told the "No Laying Up" golf podcast. "The easy thing would be for the PGA Tour to buy the European Tour and take it from there. They could still run the European events and we'll have, say, 12 big events a year, outside the majors, a bit like they do in tennis.

Source: The Star September 22, 2017 09:45 UTC