Will the PGA Tour vs. LIV golf war end in 2025?

Since the launch of LIV Golf in 2022, the world of men's professional golf has been divided.

For more than 18 months, the PGA Tour and LIV Golf have been working on an agreement to reintegrate the sport. But there hasn’t been much progress on the merger front for some time.

Adam Scott is a member of the PGA Tour's corporate transactions subcommittee with Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, which is working with LIV's Saudi Supporters of negotiations, he said, are at a standstill for a reason.

“Same as usual. It's terrible,” Scott told AP's Doug Ferguson at the Sony Open this week. “It's not worth talking about. Obviously, it's so complicated when [U.S Department of Justice] When it comes to that, I think we just sit back and wait for them. “

Scott told Ferguson there would be some action “soon.” But what that would look like remains anyone’s guess.

The potential outcome of the PGA Tour's battle with LIV was the subject of the latest episode of GOLF-produced Kostis & McCord: Off Their Rockers, with the two co-hosts offering their crystal ball predictions for the state of golf in 2025.

“I expect the LIV-PGA Tour conflict to be resolved in 2025,” Kostis said. “Beyond 2025, this cannot continue. What the solution is is still up in the air.”

Kostis went on to speculate that the PGA Tour will have to abandon its desire to be the only home for elite men's professional golf in 2025.

“There are many reasons why we are where we are in professional golf,” Kostis said. “The biggest one is that the PGA Tour wants to have a monopoly on professional golf. They want to be the ultimate goal of professional golf. That's going to disappear in 2025. They're going to have to learn to survive in an ecosystem that includes more of global golf, Whether it’s LIV or DP World Tour or whatever.”

McCord believes the two tours will not ultimately merge in 2025, and that LIV's rumored interest in acquiring the DP World Tour will play a role.

“The whole thing is LIV vs. PGA Tour. That's it. Everything else revolves around that. Are they going to be together? Or are they going to exist separately? I think they're going to exist separately,” McCord said. “As far as we know, [LIV] Planning to buy DP World Tour. It's already there. they have got [Official World Golf Ranking] point. They can go out there and play the 20 games they're going to play. Now these guys get world ranking points so they can actually go to the majors and do what they want. [They can] Now that they have world ranking points, they can compete in these big tournaments. “

McCord added that two tours won't necessarily have a negative impact on golf.

“Now, you have two trips. Is that bad?” McCord said. “I don't know if it's bad. Because in my opinion, if you want to sell this and drive TV ratings, there's nothing better than having two different entities that hate each other. I mean hate each other. Look at it. Ryder Cup, those guys don't necessarily hate each other. But on that particular week, they were mad at each other and going on a tirade. What if we made it a constant thing? There are benefits.”

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