For most of its existence, LIV Golf has been an extremely expensive punch line: Many of the world’s best players competing for millions while almost no one watches, either in person or on screens.

With 25 wins, McIlroy joins Johnny Miller, Tommy Armour and Macdonald Smith on the all-time wins list. He’s one of 26 golfers in history with at least 25 victories on the PGA Tour. Next in his sights: Henry Picard with 26; Leo Diegel and Paul Runyan with 28; Gene Littler, Lee Trevino and Harry Cooper at 29; and Horton Smith with 30.

Rory McIlroy earned his 25th PGA Tour title by teaming with Shane Lowry to capture the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. McIlroy is now tied for 23rd on the Tour’s all-time wins list, alongside Tommy Armour,

Rory McIlroy basically auditioning for a return to the PGA Tour policy board is faintly ludicrous with the sport increasingly fractured by LIV Golf

For three years, men’s professional golf has felt like an endless loop of a scene from Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, in which an aspiring tycoon turns to an established tycoon and asks, “What’s your number?” — meaning the dollar amount with which he would be content. The answer?