Ponte Vedera Beach, Florida – Justin Thomas’ final three years of podium finishing on the Players Championship, has a constant: the topic of Liv, the PGA Tour and the battle they are going on.
Thomas won the player in 2021 Thomas said: “I think we’ve gone through the exhausted level. There are so many of us, on the tour, we’re all on both sides of us, I think the liv players, we don’t know we really don’t know what’s going on, we’re just playing golf and hoping we’re the best and we don’t know, we can’t control it, and we can’t control it.”
Even though the two parties jointly announced a framework agreement between the tour on June 6, 2023 and the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (which expired on December 31 of that year), no formal signing and negotiations have been made between the two parties.
Recently, on February 20, Player Director Tiger Woods, Adam Scott and Commissioner Jay Monahan met with White House officials in an effort to speed up what they firmly described as a unified professional golf. Monahan and Scott had previously met with Donald Trump at the White House on February 4 to try to quickly track federal approval of the Tour’s proposed agreement with PIF, which plans to inject $1.5 billion into the Tour’s for-profit entity PGA Tour Enterprises.
“The negotiations are real,” Monahan said Tuesday. “They are big.”
“We believe there is room to incorporate all aspects of LIV golf into the PGA tour platform,” Monaghan added. “We are not going to do this in a way that reduces the strength of the platform.”
Thomas admits that despite the players being tired and wanting to surpass it, he knows it’s not that simple.
“It’s not something you or anyone can say, ‘Okay, that’s what we’re going to do,'” Thomas said. “I think obviously everyone needs to be on the same page, and I think when it’s time to get to that level, I don’t know if the government is involved. There are a lot of salary levels above my salary level that I don’t know and I probably shouldn’t or don’t speak. ”
The concept of it soon happened last week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, world third-place Rory McIlroy was outspoken to unify the subject. At the Genesis Invitational in early February, McIlroy said he believes the 2026 season may be unified.
“I don’t think it’s ever been that close, but I don’t, and it doesn’t feel like it’s closer,” McIlroy said in Orlando.
When asked whether Liv, backed by PIF, would be beneficial for golf competitions, Thomas admitted that many things that happened on the tour, including higher games, including higher wallets for the tournament, were related to the fact that Liv ruined the sport. However, Thomas still insists that this breaking method is unacceptable.
“There are a few people like Phil [Mickelson] Or Bryson [DeChambeau] Thomas said: “The way they were going may not be my way, but they did say something that was valuable to them, or there was some truth. Yes, maybe some improved tours were done on the tour, but the whole golf game was separated in different places. [tours] And create some hatred, that’s not necessarily better. ”
