PGA Tour’s Adam Scott shares message to Trump after White House meeting

President Donald Trump has had a engaged archetypal 50 days successful office, and according to PGA Tour player manager Adam Scott, brokering a woody betwixt the Tour and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit isn’t precocious connected the database of priorities. 

Scott and PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan met with President Trump connected 2 occasions, the past of which was attended by Tiger Woods and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia politician behind the instauration of LIV.

President Donald Trump addresses a associated league of Congress astatine the U.S. Capitol connected March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The PGA Tour has openly praised those meetings and Trump’s involvement, but Scott said helium received rather the world cheque connected his past sojourn to the White House. 

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"It was evident to me, precise quickly, erstwhile they were mounting up for the Israeli delegation close aft our gathering and putting the Israeli emblem and the U.S. emblem and getting that country acceptable that our speech was beauteous debased successful value of what was happening that day," Scott said with a grin connected Tuesday up of The Players Championship.

"And really, the president had acold much important things to absorption on," helium continued, "and I encouraged him to spell and bash that good for everyone's involvement aft our meeting."

Scott’s comments and sojourn to the White House travel arsenic the PGA Tour and LIV Gold stay astatine a standstill successful the process of attempting to reunite the play world, which suffered a monolithic shakeup successful 2022 aft the rival circuit drew distant immoderate of the Tour’s biggest stars with lucrative signings. 

Adam Scott tees disconnected during the archetypal circular of the Arnold Palmer Invitational astatine Bay Hill, March 6, 2025, successful Orlando. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

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The fractured narration betwixt the 2 circuits appeared to beryllium connected the mend aft the PGA Tour, PIF and the DP World Tour signed a model statement successful June 2023. But the parties progressive failed to travel to immoderate statement earlier that woody expired astatine the extremity of the year. 

Trump’s engagement comes arsenic the PGA Tour looks to negociate with PIF for a number capitalist presumption successful the caller commercialized PGA Tour Enterprises. 

The thought is to bring the apical players backmost connected Tour, without compromising the integrity of what’s already been established, Monahan said this week. 

The commissioner of the PGA Tour, Jay Monahan, speaks during a quality league up of the Tour Championship, Aug. 28, 2024, successful Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, file)

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"We're doing everything that we tin to bring the 2 sides together," helium said up of The Players Championship. "That said, we volition not bash truthful successful a mode that diminishes the spot of our level oregon the precise existent momentum we person with our fans and our partners. So portion we’ve removed immoderate hurdles, others remain."

Monahan besides thanked Trump again, adding that their goals for a woody impact the aforesaid principles. 

"President Trump is simply a lifelong play fan. He believes powerfully successful the game’s powerfulness and potential, and helium has been exceedingly generous with his clip and power to assistance bring a woody together," helium said. "He wants to spot the crippled reunified. We privation to spot the crippled reunified. His engagement has made the imaginable of reunification precise real." 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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