Sources told ESPN that PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and player directors Tiger Woods and Adam Scott met with officials at the White House Thursday, which was a tour The Sport hopes this is another step to re-announce professional golf for men.
Monahan and Scott met with U.S. President Donald Trump on February 4 to speed up federal approval of a proposed agreement with Saudi Arabia’s public investment fund It plans to inject $1.5 billion into the for-profit entity PGA, a tourism enterprise, on the tour.
It is unclear whether Trump or PIF Governor Yasir al-Rumayyan is attending a meeting held in Washington, D.C. on Thursday
PGA Tour, DP World Tour and PIF announced that they have reached a framework agreement to form the league on June 6, 2023. The agreement expired at the end of 2023, but the two countries continued to negotiate potential deals over the past two years.
PIF is Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund that is funding rival Liv Golf League.
Over the past few months, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has been reviewing PIF’s investment in PGA Tour businesses to determine whether it violates federal antitrust laws.
U.S. lawmakers, including Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), raised national security issues, saying it The deal will allow Saudi Arabia to “Sportswash” its controversial human rights record.
Monahan told reporters at Torrey Pines’ Genesis Invitational Tournament last week at Torrey Pines’s Genesis Invitational, Monahan told reporters that the meeting with Trump earlier this month worked and about “a tour” The professional game is unified, and all the best players are in the game.”
“Everything goes forward at speed, I think there is a general – when you look at all the parties involved, there is a general enthusiasm for accomplishing that goal,” Monaghan said. “I think the meeting [with Trump] Ultimately brings us closer to the step of completing the transaction, but there is still a lot of work to be done. ”
In Sunday’s final round of reports on Genesis, Woods told CBS that negotiations with PIF were in a “very positive position right now.”
“I think things will heal quickly,” Woods said. “We’re going to take the game in the right direction. It’s been heading in the wrong direction for years and fans want us all to play together – all the top players Play together – we’re reaching that.”
