Australian star Adam Scott has joined US PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan in imploring US President Donald Trump to assist full a Saudi Arabian funding deal and reunite golf’s high gamers in a single collection.
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A social media message Thursday by the PGA Tour attributed to Monahan and participant administrators Scott and Tiger Woods confirmed Australian Scott and Monahan went to the White Home to hunt the help of Trump, an avid golfer and golf fan.
Talks have dragged on 14 months previous an authentic deadline between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf’s backers, the Saudi Public Funding Fund, to reunite the game’s finest gamers, lots of whom bolted from the PGA to the upstart collection and are banned from PGA occasions.
Each LIV and the PGA Tour have 2025 seasons deliberate as particulars stay incomplete on a PIF funding deal, US Division of Justice authorized issues about Saudi financing of a US enterprise among the many points concerned.
“We all know golf followers are eagerly anticipating a decision to negotiations with the Public Funding Fund and wish to thank President Trump for his curiosity and long-time help of the sport of golf,” the assertion from Monahan and the gamers stated.
“We requested the President to get entangled for the great of the sport, the great of the nation and for all of the international locations concerned.
“We’re grateful that his management has introduced us nearer to a remaining deal, paving the best way for reunification of males’s skilled golf.”
No particulars of the dialog with Trump have been revealed and there was no indication when any deal would possibly really be accomplished.
Trump’s Doral course is ready to host a LIV Golf occasion on April 4-6, the week earlier than the Masters.
At this stage, main tournaments such because the annual showdown at Augusta Nationwide are the one locations the place the world’s high gamers from LIV and the PGA can compete towards one another.