Wyndham Clark has admitted he would have been happy to accept a mega-money offer from LIV Golf if he was able to also return to compete on the PGA Tour freely.

Clark’s name was heavily linked with a move to the LIV setup this time last year but opted not to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson, and Bryson DeChambeau by remaining loyal to the PGA Tour. As things stand, any player who competes on the LIV circuit is banned from the PGA Tour.

For Clark, this was too big of a consequence but claimed if there was an opportunity to play across both tours, then he too, as well as a number of other big PGA Tour stars, would have made the Saudi switch.

“If we 100 percent knew we could take the money and come back, then we all would have done that,” Clark told the No Laying Up Podcast this week. “Because we all would’ve been way richer and then you come back and actually play at the highest level.”

As things stand, bosses of the PGA Tour and Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia are currently in negotiations over forging a peace deal between the two rival tours. As part of any agreement, it is expected, that LIV players will be able to return to the PGA Tour in some capacity.

How this will look in practice however still remains unknown. Clark believes those who have previously contributed immensely to the PGA Tour deserve their spot back. “I think it depends on who it is,” he added. “I think guys that have had the career where they should be lifelong PGA Tour players, I think they deserve the right to come play the PGA Tour.”

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Highlighting who he believes is deserving of a returning spot, he went on: “If Dustin Johnson wants to come back and Phil Mickelson and guys that have won, Brooks [Koepka], who have won majors and are most likely hall of famers, they deserve to play wherever the hell they want, because they’re so good.”

He was less sympathetic however to those with less “pedigree”. The former U.S. Open champion claimed: “I think guys that maybe left and didn’t have that pedigree and career. I think those are the guys I struggle with because they made their decision. So they chose to go play there, and take the money. I think that’s what a lot of us wrestle with.”

It still remains to be seen when the proposed deal between the PGA Tour and PIF will be finalized, with negotiations continuing 16 months on from the initial framework agreement. Relations between the two sides appeared harmonious earlier this month after PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan was joined by LIV chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan in the Pro-Am draw of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on the DP World Tour.