The PGA Tour put out a press release Thursday thanking President Donald Trump for intervening within the tour’s effort to dealer a enterprise settlement with LIV Golf and Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund (PIF).
“We requested the president to become involved for the great of the sport, the great of the nation and for all of the international locations concerned,” a press release from PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and participant director Tiger Woods mentioned. “We’re grateful that his management has introduced us nearer to a last deal, paving the way in which for reunification of males’s skilled golf.”
After launching in 2022, LIV lured a number of star golfers with huge salaries, together with Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia.
In June of that yr, the PGA suspended 17 gamers who pledged to play for LIV and promised future suspensions for anybody who participated in LIV occasions.
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Former President Donald Trump, the 2024 presidential hopeful, performs golf forward of the LIV Golf Invitational sequence match at Trump Nationwide Golf Membership Bedminster in Bedminster, N.J., Aug. 9, 2023. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
In June 2023, the PGA Tour and the European-based DP World Tour introduced that they had a ‘framework settlement’ for a merger with PIF and LIV. However the settlement by no means materialized as a result of the deadline to finish that deal handed on the finish of that yr.
Greater than a full yr has handed since, however now Trump’s intervention might carry that deal nearer to fruition.
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Golf star Rory McIlroy mentioned in November he believed Trump changing into president for the second time might assist “clear the way in which” for a deal between the PGA and LIV.
Trump has a detailed relationship with Saudi Arabia and LIV Golf, with a number of of its 54-hole occasions being staged at Trump-owned programs.
Trump’s intervention with the PGA-LIV negotiations was considered one of many large sports activities moments for the president this week.
Former President Donald Trump watches his shot from the primary tee through the pro-am previous to the LIV Golf Invitational – Bedminster at Trump Nationwide Golf Membership Bedminster July 28, 2022, in Bedminster, N.J. (Charles Laberge/LIV Golf by way of Getty Pictures)
Trump modified the course of ladies’s sports activities historical past by signing the “No Males in Ladies’s Sports activities” govt order within the East Room of the White Home in entrance of feminine athletes on Nationwide Women and Ladies in Sports activities Day Wednesday.
The NCAA rapidly capitulated to Trump’s order, saying Thursday afternoon a brand new participation coverage for transgender student-athletes.
“A student-athlete assigned male at start might not compete on a ladies’s workforce,” the brand new coverage states.
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It was additionally reported this week that Trump will change into the primary sitting president in historical past to attend a Tremendous Bowl.
The information prompted pleasure from Kansas Metropolis Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.
“It is at all times cool to have the ability to play in entrance of a sitting president,” Mahomes mentioned. “Somebody that’s on the high place in our nation.”
Kelce referred to as it an “honor.”
“I feel, , irrespective of who the president is, I do know I’m excited as a result of it’s the largest sport of my life, . And having the president there, , it’s the perfect nation on the earth. So, that’d be fairly cool,” Kelce mentioned.
Former President Donald Trump headlines a Republican Nationwide Committee spring donor retreat in Palm Seashore, Fla., Might 4, 2024 (Donald Trump 2024 marketing campaign)
Gracie Hunt, the daughter of Chiefs workforce proprietor Clark Hunt, spoke to Riley Gaines on OutKick’s “Gaines for Women” podcast and reacted to Trump’s remarks.
“It’s fairly cool. It’s fairly superior,” she instructed Gaines. “Generally, I simply take a look at whoever I’m speaking to, and I’m like, ‘Yeah, that simply wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card.’ However, wow, that’s simply completely unimaginable.”
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