What President Trump is about to tell Mohammed bin Salman about a potential PGA Tour merger with LIV Golf

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For the past 18 months or so, the debate about a potential merger between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf has raged on.

Numerous players left the PGA Tour back in the summer of 2022 to join LIV Golf, including the likes of Phil Mickelson, the long-hitting Bryson DeChambeau and five-time major winner Brooks Koepka.

And then many more high-profile names joined the Saudi-backed golf league later down the line, including 2022 Open Champion Cam Smith and two-time major winner Jon Rahm.

There is still plenty of tension between the two rival factions, despite claims suggesting that a merger could happen some day soon.

Brandel Chamblee actually recently claimed that he’s been told that a merger between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf will ‘never get done’.

However, President Donald Trump seems determined to change all of that.

What President Trump will tell Mohammed bin Salman about PGA Tour merger with LIV Golf

President Trump met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Royal Palace in Riyadh on Tuesday.

There were obviously a lot of high-profile issues on the agenda.

And one of the topics up for debate will be a potential merger between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.

According to Golfweek, Trump is in no mood for negotiating, and is set to make his stance very clear to the Crown Prince.

“One of the deals on his agenda involves LIV Golf, the Saudi-funded circuit that has torched northwards of $5 billion and numerous reputations while returning little more than piddling broadcast audiences and a sponsorship deal with Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers.

“As the mandarins in Ponte Vedra understand things, the president is going to Saudi Arabia to tell its autocratic leader, Mohammed bin Salman, that any deal between the Tour and the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund will be on the Tour’s preferred terms, and those terms will not include a long-term future for LIV. Tiger Woods, a director on the Tour’s policy board — and around whom Trump is reduced to a fawning fan boy — was dispatched to the White House late last week to ensure the president would be on message in Riyadh.

“To serious people who concern themselves with serious things, it must seem a breathtaking trivialization of American influence to see the presidency inserted into a tedious commercial dispute about whether professional golfers should be paid too much or, alternatively, way too much. There are many geopolitical priorities more worthy of discussing — multiple wars and regional conflagrations, economic crises, the WTF fiasco that is EWR airport — but none is so close to Trump’s heart as golf, which he’s promised he could fix in 15 minutes.“

So there you have it. If a merger is to be struck between the two rivalling factions, it will be the PGA Tour that hold all the power.

Data golf rankings a true reflection of the world’s top 10 players

Data Golf Rankings is an alternative system devised to give a more accurate view of who the best players in the world are.

The Official Golf World Rankings are somewhat skewed right now, due to the fact that LIV golfers do not receive ranking points.

Here’s how the top 10 players in the world currently look according to Data Golf.

That list certainly looks a lot different outside of the top two doesn’t it.

And that’s probably what the Official Golf World Rankings would look like as well, if LIV golfers were able to earn ranking points.

And if President Trump has anything to do with it, it probably won’t be too long before we see the best golfers in the world playing alongside one another again on a more regular basis.