Multiple reports indicate an additional meeting regarding professional golf’s future will happen at the White House on Thursday.
President Trump meeting Tiger Woods as PGA Tour, LIV Golf talks continue
Tiger Woods is among the key stakeholders working out a deal to resolve professional golf with the President.
Jack Milko has been playing golf since he was five years old. He has yet to record a hole-in-one, but he did secure an M.A. in Sports Journalism from St. Bonaventure University.
Adam Schupak of Golfweek notes that PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) Governor Yasir al-Rumayyan have flown to Washington, D.C., to meet with President Donald Trump and other White House officials. Tiger Woods and Adam Scott, two Directors on the Player Advisory Council, will join them, per Mark Schlabach of ESPN.
Monahan and Scott initially met with the President to discuss the PGA Tour’s future with LIV Golf on Feb. 4, a meeting that Woods did not attend because of his mother’s passing. The Commissioner called it a “productive” discussion, adding that “everything is moving forward with pace.”
Talks surrounding an agreement between the PGA Tour and the Saudi PIF, LIV Golf’s beneficiary, have dragged on for almost two years. The two sides signed a ‘framework agreement’ on Jun. 6, 2023. Yet, the professional game remains fractured, with two circuits operating concurrently without crossover. PGA Tour and LIV Golf players compete side by side only a handful of times per year, doing so at the four majors and a handful of DP World Tour events.
“I think things are going to heal quickly,” Woods said while sitting on the final round broadcast of the Genesis Invitational.
“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.”
Woods added that a deal could happen “very soon.”
Jack Milko is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Follow him on X @jack_milko.
