Adam Scott is one of the PGA Tour players most involved in negotiations with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF). The process aims to end the current split in men’s professional golf, with some of the top players competing on the PGA Tour and on LIV Golf.

His status as Player Director gives Scott a very informed view of what is going on in that part of the process. But his status as an active player also allows him to see up close what is happening on the other side, among the players who play on the PGA Tour on a day-to-day basis. Apparently, not everything is rosy among them when it comes to the success of the negotiations.

One of the goals of the process is to get the top players playing together again on a regular basis. According to Scott, this may not be welcomed by all parties, adding that he doesn’t blame how they feel.

“I wouldn’t be surprised – or I wouldn’t judge anyone, the members – if reunification happened and they weren’t happy with how it happened,” Scott said in an interview with Golf Australia. “I hope they’re not spending as much time talking about it as I have. I wouldn’t hold it against anybody if there were negative emotions attached to it; the thought of players coming back.”

Reports have been circulating for several weeks about the allegedly advanced state of negotiations between the PGA Tour and PIF. Golf Channel’s Rex Hoggard recently reported that the two sides had reached a final agreement on financial terms and had submitted several proposals to the U.S. Department of Justice for approval.

A few days ago, Scott himself accompanied PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan to a meeting with President Donald Trump. According to what was reported afterward, the meeting was to ask for Trump’s mediation in the negotiations, knowing the president’s passion for the game.

Contacts between the two parties had been intensifying for months. Scott, Monahan and the rest of the Player Directors, including Tiger Woods, met with Yasir Al-Rumayyan (Saudi PIF Governor) in the Bahamas in March 2024. They reportedly met again in New York in September.

Monahan and Rumayyan have also had more than one face-to-face meeting in recent months. The two played a round together at the DP World Tour’s 2024 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship Pro-Am event, and weeks later they reportedly met again at the Ladies European Tour’s PIF Saudi Ladies International.

However, this is not the first time we have heard reports of PGA Tour players being unhappy with an eventual deal. A Bloomberg report stated that negotiations were stalled because American based circuit players were demanding measures for those who left for LIV Golf, such as giving back the money earned in that league, or forfeiting their future earnings on the PGA Tour.

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