In December 2022, I wrote: “Enter LIV Golf this year: I have heard it described as the biggest ‘disrupter’ and ‘fracturing’ of professional golf in its history. Wives and families are no longer talking, fellow Ryder Cup teammates are no longer friends and the rhetoric at the top is toxic…..

I was changing in the locker room after play and a fellow golfer was singing that happy song ‘What a Day for a Daydream’ to himself. It kind of summed up the feeling of the day for all those invited to play in Paul McGinley’s recent press day at Donegal….