Discuss of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf coming to an settlement to quickly finish the feud that has break up males’s skilled golf could have been untimely.
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Golfweek’s Eamon Lynch has reported that the current assembly on the White Home involving US President Donald Trump to attempt attain a merger deal between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Public Funding Fund, who financially again LIV Golf, could not have gone in response to plan.
The Golf Channel’s Rex Hoggard reported {that a} “deal in precept” could have been made on the assembly, whereas Tiger Woods stated that an settlement will probably be reached “very quickly” in the course of the Genesis Invitational.
However Lynch’s report states that the second White Home assembly, which had Woods in addition to Australian Adam Scott and PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan in attendance, left the US Excursions head honchoes disillusioned.
“Rumblings from knowledgeable sources counsel that Thursday’s assembly on the White Home didn’t go in addition to Tour executives had hoped, which means that PIF governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, stays decided to maintain shoveling money into the furnace of his personal pridefulness,” Lynch stated.
The PGA Tour facet have usually insisted that the world’s finest male golfers will as soon as once more be competing in opposition to each other frequently, outdoors of the majors, however that notion hints at LIV occasions dropping by the wayside.
The announcement per week in the past that LIV’s fashionable Adelaide event is right here to remain till 2031 was a press release of intent that the three-round occasions with a shotgun begin and music pumping are going nowhere.
Hypothesis stays abound about what a post-merger panorama would appear like with participant motion between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.
Hoggard additionally reported that the PGA Tour was open to LIV gamers returning to their occasions this yr.
Even advised that subsequent month’s The Gamers Championship might function LIV golfers, however that appears unlikely because the distinguished occasion at TPC Sawgrass clashes with LIV Singapore.