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PGA Tour and PIF negotiations could finally be coming to an end
For golf fans everywhere, the last few years have been absolutely grueling watching the rift between the PGA Tour and the Public Investment Fund (PIF) backed LIV Golf Tour grow larger and larger. As more and more players left the PGA Tour to take massive sums of money and join LIV Golf, the attention on the professional game have diminished in a big way.
Since Donald Trump was named President of the United States, the game of golf was hopeful he would be able to assist in getting a deal done with the newly formed PGA Enterprises and the PIF. A recent meeting with Trump, Adam Scott and PGA Enterprises Jay Monahan left people hopeful a deal might get done.
A follow-up meeting with those aforementioned individuals, as well as Tiger Woods and H.E. Yasir Al-Rumayyan, have left people feeling confident a reunification of professional golf could actually happen.
Here is a video breakdown from the Golf Channel:
🚨👀⛳️ JUST IN: Golf Channel reports that today’s White House meeting could result in a ‘deal in principle’ by day’s end between the PGA TOUR & PlF. pic.twitter.com/i0hWqyuauN
— NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) February 20, 2025
For those who might be skeptical of this report, the PGA Tour issued a statement about the meeting and their hope to move “as quickly as possible”.
See the statement below, via Golf.com:
PGA Tour has issued a statement after the meeting at the White House earlier today.
“We are committed to moving as quickly as possible and will share additional details as appropriate.” pic.twitter.com/BXH7sHOfbh
— GOLF.com (@GOLF_com) February 20, 2025
There are some underlying reports circulating which suggest a deal could mean select LIV players could be in the field as soon as the Player’s Championship in the second week of March. This might be a hasty assumption on all accounts, but there is hope in the world of professional golf, something fans haven’t had much of since LIV started signing players back in 2022.
For most golf fans, they just want the best players in the field on a weekly basis, and the recent meetings in the White House might make that a reality sooner, rather than later.
Jeff Hartman is the host of the Fairways & Dreams podcast, and you can hear the latest show in the podcast player below:
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