And that's really who has sort of been hurt by all this,” said Billy Horschel, who played alongside Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the PIF’s governor, this week. The nuanced details of a potential deal – primarily what the pathway back to the Tour for players who joined LIV Golf would look like and how the professional landscape could be reimagined – is normally where any possible consensus unravels,

Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka, Tyrrell Hatton, Shane Lowry, Robert MacIntyre, Patrick Reed, Louis Oosthuizen and Billy Horschel are just some of the players representing the two sides of golf’s civil war taking on three of golf’s most infamous venues.

For those inclined to the perplexing and sometimes misinterpreted study of body language, the opening round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at Carnoustie provided an ideal opportunity for practice.