As tumble towards another season of golf for 2025, we’re still at something of an impasse when it comes to the future of the game and the LIV and PGA Tours.
As yet, despite a pre-agreement being signed to find a solution nearly two years ago, both the PGA and LIV are continuing to run as separate entities.
For now, golfers on both sides of the fence seem content enough with that but over time, the clamour to bring the game back together in some format will grow.
Indeed, the PIF have recently announced a slight drop in investment of sporting projects, while current CEO Greg Norman is also being moved to another role within the business.
Meanwhile, the PGA Tour continue to increase the purses on offer, all the while LIV work to bring in fresh talent, with Jon Rahm recently confirming a new face would be added to his Legion XIII team.
And according to one former Ryder Cup captain, Paul McGinley, both tours are going to struggle to keep going with their current business models.
Paul McGinley makes claim about PGA and LIV money
Speaking in an interview with The Irish Independent, McGinley got onto the subject of LIV, the PGA, and of course, the money.
And according to McGinley, there’s going to be an end point on when it comes to the expenditure.
“I’ll go back to the question. How long is LIV going to keep doing it? They have checks and balances on PIF like every other business. They are not a charity. They don’t give it away. At the moment they don’t seem to have got a lot of traction for a huge investment. How long are they going to keep on doing that?,” McGinley questioned.
“Then on the PGA Tour side, you think how can they keep paying out the money that they are when TV revenues are going down and a lot of pressure is coming from the media towards the PGA Tour to say, hey we have got a problem here.”
Money will end up the driving factor in any LIV and PGA deal
Just like money was the driver for many players going to LIV Golf in the first place, the same thing will happen when it comes to making a deal between all the tours.
McGinley is spot on about there essentially not being a never-ending pot of money to sit back and throw about.
Ultimately, there will come a point where both tours will feel a pinch of sorts and that will push the business-people involved on both sides to come to some sort of agreement.
For now, it looks like things will stay the same. But give it another two to three years, and we could be looking at an entire new landscape in the world of golf.
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