The PGA Tour and LIV Golf have continued to go their separate ways in 2025, although a resolution between the two is seemingly closer than ever.
New LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil has been laughed off after claiming the breakaway tour is the best place to see the best players in the world outside of the major championships.
The Masters is up first in the major schedule, with many of the world’s top talent set to take on the iconic event at Augusta National in April.
But the PGA Tour and LIV Golf will both be very busy until then, with plenty of significant events coming in the near future.
Ludvig Aberg is the latest PGA Tour champion, having triumphed at the Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines South on Sunday.
Paul McGinley expects PGA Tour and LIV Golf deal before the Masters
Joaquin Niemann meanwhile emerged victorious at LIV Golf Adelaide, with Fireballs GC winning the team event this week.
The rival tours reached a framework agreement in June 2023 but have yet to complete any form of merger, although according to Paul McGinley that is set to change very soon.
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“It’s not going to start with everybody back as friends – it’ll be a slow process in that regard,” McGinley told BBC Sport Northern Ireland.
“But the main thing is to find some kind of umbrella that both tours can work under as well as the DP World Tour and then try to get some kind of schedule out of that.
“There’s going to be something announced and from what I hear, it’s going to be announced relatively soon, maybe even before the Masters.”
PGA Tour and LIV Golf closer than ever to much-needed merger
Any concrete form of a merger between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf has been a long time coming, much to the frustration of many.
Fans of the sport and indeed a lot of players have been eager for a deal to be reached for some time, but they have constantly been left short.
The likes of duo Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler and pair Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka essentially took matters into their own hands late last year, having taken part in a PGA Tour versus LIV Golf exhibition in Las Vegas.
That may have been one of a handful of sparks to ignite this much-needed fire, with US President Donald Trump also eager to speed up the process.
Trump met PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and board member Adam Scott at the White House earlier this month, in a bid to solve a problem that has been evident since the launch of the Saudi-backed tour in 2022.
But while a deal now looks on the cards, it remains to be seen what it will look like, both in the short-term and long-term.
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