Scottie Scheffler implores media to 'go ask' LIV players why golf is 'not back together'

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It has been a alternatively agelong waiting crippled since the PGA Tour and LIV Golf announced their intentionem to articulation forces.

That daze announcement came connected June 6, 2023, but by astir each accounts, nary woody is imminent.

Rory McIlroy precocious seemed to connote that it's connected those who defected to get a woody done, saying that "it takes 2 to tango."

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Bryson DeChambeau and Scottie Scheffler

Scottie Scheffler, left, of the PGA Tour and Bryson DeChambeau of LIV Golf speech earlier The Showdown: McIlroy and Scheffler v DeChambeau and Koepka astatine Shadow Creek Golf Course connected Dec. 16, 2024, successful Las Vegas. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images for The Showdown)

Reigning Masters champion Scottie Scheffler shared a akin sentiment earlier this week.

"I privation immoderate of those guys had stayed, but astatine the extremity of the day, they made their choice. They knew the consequences of that decision, and I’m not present to alteration their minds. I clasp nary sick volition toward immoderate of those guys that left," Scheffler said.

"They did what they wanted to do, and I can’t power their life. I’m not going to beryllium present and accidental they should person done thing differently. They made their choice. If we privation to fig retired wherefore the crippled of play is not backmost together, spell inquire those guys. Go to wherever they are playing this week and fig retired erstwhile the crippled is going to travel backmost together."

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Scottie Scheffler during the last circular of The Presidents Cup. (Eric Bolte-Imagn Images)

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PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan precocious called President Donald Trump "the facilitator" successful the ongoing discussions 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.

"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 earlier this month. "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.

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

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Scottie Scheffler tees disconnected during the archetypal circular of The Presidents Cup. (Eric Bolte-Imagn Images)

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"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."

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

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