Indeed, something of a huddle developed, one joined at various times by Horschel, Rory McIlroy and various others eager to say hello.

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.

Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, were grouped together in the first round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at Carnoustie Golf Links in Scotland on Thursday.

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and PIF Chief Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan played together in the pro-am at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Does this mean anything for PGA Tour-LIV Golf negotiations?

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,

Perhaps a PGA Tour and Saudi PIF deal could be close to a breakthrough after Jay Monahan and Yasir Al-Rumayyan's round of golf together