It didn’t take long to get a taste of the awkwardness that will occur at this week’s BMW PGA Championship.

The DP World Tour (formerly the European Tour) event includes players who defected to LIV Golf as well as those still on the PGA Tour. And at least some of the 18 who left for the riches of the Saudi-backed circuit arrived early on Monday at the Wentworth Club in London — just 10 hours after the LIV Boston Invitational ended — for a tense meeting with DP World Tour CEO Keith Pelley, The Telegraph reported.

According to the report, the group included European stalwarts Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter. The players questioned Pelley over “the strategic alliance” DP World Tour has with the PGA Tour.

The PGA Tour has banned all players who have played in any LIV Golf event. The DP World Tour has issued fines and suspensions, though the attempt to ban LIV golfers from the DP World Tour was given a “stay” that allows them to compete on the European circuit until a full hearing next year.

“We didn’t get in as many questions as we wanted and Keith just kept replying that ‘we’re in the middle of an ongoing legal case, so I can’t give you an answer’,” one LIV golfer told The Telegraph.

“He also said that the DP World Tour was a pathway to the PGA Tour, but wouldn’t say ‘feeder tour’. At least, his answers are down in writing now.”

As part of the alliance, the top 10 finishers in the DP World Tour’s season-long points race get PGA Tour cards, something that has not sat well with Westwood.

“I mean, what company or organization gives away its 10 best assets at the end of every year — especially to a rival or competitor?” Westwood told reporters recently. “I’m not convinced by the strategic alliance because I’ve seen how the PGA Tour has behaved over the years. There’s not been much ‘give.’ They have always been bullies…I have been telling Keith and other members of his board how this is all going to go for 12 months now. I told him that getting into bed with the PGA Tour was a mistake.”

The war of words between PGA Tour players and LIV golfers has escalated with each passing defection.

Rory McIlroy has been the most vocal critic of LIV and is in the field at the BMW PGA, the flagship event on the DP World Tour.

“I hate what [LIV] is doing to the game of golf,” McIlroy said after winning The Tour Championship two weeks ago. “I hate it. I really do. Like, it’s going to be hard for me to stomach going to Wentworth in a couple of weeks’ time and seeing 18 of them there. That just doesn’t sit right with me.”