Sergio Garcia and Tiger Woods are not the only players ‘making up’ at this week’s US Open with World No. 2 Rory McIlroy and American Billy Horschel finally ending a six-year feud.

McIlroy and Horschel fell out at the Walker Cup at Royal Country Down in Northern Ireland in 2007 after the pair had been drawn against each other for the final day singles.

‘I was up against Horschel on the first day, too,’ McIlroy recalled the following year. ‘I messed up the last hole and lost to him. I wasn’t happy.

Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods and Billy Horschell playing a practice round together. (Photo – Getty Images)

‘Then I got him again, twice, on the Sunday. His antics were really p****** me off.

“For example, he had hit a bunker shot at the 14th in our morning foursome. It was a great shot and finished inches from the cup.

‘But he came running down the hill hollering at the top of his voice. He was so loud and so obnoxious.

‘Anyway, that outburst of his was probably the worst thing he could have done. In the second singles, I set out to be as loud as he was.

‘On the first tee I ripped a drive up the middle, hit my seven-iron approach to maybe 15 feet – I was shouting ‘Be good! Be good!’ all the way – and holed the putt for an eagle.

‘When the ball went in, I gave it the loudest ‘Come on!’ you’ve ever heard. I think he got the point.’

However while Garcia has yet to face Woods and apologise in person it seems that McIlroy and Horschel have made up as it was noted this week they could be seen talking amicably as they played the 16th hole alongside Woods, with the threesome completing eight holes together in a Wednesday practice round.

* Report by colleague, Phil Casey PA.