Donald Trump has been 'the facilitator' in PGA-LIV discussions, Jay Monahan says

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said astatine TPC Sawgrass connected Tuesday that President Donald Trump has been "the facilitator" betwixt the PGA and LIV Golf successful bid to yet onslaught a deal.

June 6 volition people 2 years since the bombshell announcement that the 2 sides were discussing immoderate benignant of statement to travel unneurotic successful immoderate capacity, but talks person agelong stalled — that is, until Trump took office.

Last month, the Tour credited Trump for "[getting] progressive for the bully of the game," and it appears determination has been question since helium got involved.

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PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said President Donald Trump has been "the facilitator" betwixt the PGA and LIV Golf successful bid to yet onslaught a deal. (Rob Carr/Getty Images)

"Those talks are real. They’re substantial, and they’re being driven astatine the apical levels of some organizations. Those talks person been importantly bolstered by President Trump’s willingness to service arsenic the facilitator," Monahan said connected Tuesday. "President Trump is simply a lifelong play fan. He believes powerfully successful the game’s powerfulness and potential, and helium has been exceedingly generous successful his clip and power to assistance bring a woody together. He wants to spot the crippled reunified. We privation to spot the crippled reunified, and his engagement has made the imaginable of reunification precise real."

Monahan added, "We judge there’s country to integrate important aspects of LIV Golf into the PGA Tour platform," and helium could envision "a future" successful which Public Investment Fund politician Yasir Al-Rumayyan tin articulation the Tour's board.

"We’re doing everything that we tin to bring the 2 sides together. That said, we volition not bash truthful successful a mode that diminishes the spot of our level oregon the precise existent momentum with our fans and our partners," Monahan said, adding that "hurdles remain" betwixt the 2 sides.

Last month, the Tour credited Trump for "[getting] progressive for the bully of the game," and it appears determination has been question since helium got involved. (Mike Stobe/Getty Images)

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Trump past period expressed optimism the 2 sides volition get immoderate benignant of woody done.

"They’re gonna person to get together," helium said. "They’ve had a batch of treatment backmost and forth. They some are meaning well, and a woody volition yet happen. I deliberation it volition hap beauteous quickly. It would beryllium bully to spot the champion golfers play against each other."

"They are each large people, and they privation to enactment it out," Trump added. "So, if I tin assistance enactment it out… I don’t get thing retired of it. I tin assistance them enactment it out. I conscionable deliberation play — it’s precise overmuch an idiosyncratic sport, and you privation to spot the champion players playing against each different and not playing successful 2 antithetic locations."

Trump's courses person hosted respective LIV events since its inception, past hosting a PGA lawsuit successful the mid-2010s. (Charles Laberge/LIV Golf via Getty Images)

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Golf splintered successful 2022 with the emergence of LIV Golf, which came with the backing of the PIF. Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm each play successful the league.

Trump's courses person hosted respective LIV events since its inception, past hosting a PGA lawsuit successful the mid-2010s.

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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