McIlroy says pendulum swings in PGA Tour’s direction with return of Koepka, Reed

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Rory McIlroy believes the pendulum has swung more in the PGA Tour’s favor with the return of Brooks Koepka from LIV Golf and Patrick Reed leaving the Saudi-funded league and being virtually assured a tour card for next year. “I’m all for anything that makes the PGA Tour stronger and those two guys coming back make the PGA Tour stronger,” McIlroy said Tuesday at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-am, his first competition on American soil since Europe won the Ryder Cup last September before hostile New York fans. McIlroy, who went from being one of the harshest critics of LIV Golf to wanting to see some form of...