PGA Tour-LIV Golf talks expected to heat up again with President Trump on Thursday

Posted by author February 20, 2025 Golf

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U.S. President Donald Trump, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and Public Investment Fund governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan are scheduled to meet in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, according to sources at Golfweek.

Radar Atlas, which tracks private airplane travel, reported both the Tour’s plane and Adam Scott’s airplane both had arrived at Washington Dulles Airport on Wednesday evening.

The PGA Tour’s Monahan and player director Adam Scott went to the White House two weeks ago to meet with Trump and seek his support in striking a deal with the PIF, the sole benefactor of the breakaway LIV league. Woods also recently played a round of golf with Trump. Efforts to hash out a deal have dragged since a framework agreement was hastily announced on June 6, 2023.

Woods, a Tour policy board member who is serving on the Transaction Sub-Committee, said on Sunday’s broadcast of the Genesis Invitational that another meeting to discuss the reunification of PGA Tour and LIV Golf, as well as a potential investment from the Saudis in the PGA Tour, was imminent.

When asked whether the feud could end this year or “very soon,” Woods replied “yes and yes,” and predicted that the game will “heal very quickly.”

A deal would enable the world’s best players to compete against each other more often. One stumbling block has been whether the Department of Justice would approve such a deal, but Trump has indicated his administration will be more friendly to allowing a deal to be reached.

“I think we’re in a very positive place right now. We had a meeting with the president. Unfortunately, I had some other circumstances that came up, but Jay and Adam, they did great during the meeting, and we have another subsequent meeting coming up,” Woods said.

He continued: “I think that things are going to heal quickly. We’re going to get this game going in the right direction. It’s been heading in the wrong direction for a number of years and the fans want all of us to play together, all the top players playing together and we’re going to make that happen.”