PGA Tour credits Trump with moving LIV Golf deal closer during president's big sports week

The PGA Tour enactment retired a connection Thursday thanking President Donald Trump for intervening successful the tour's effort to broker a concern statement with LIV Golf and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF). 

"We asked the president to get progressive for the bully of the game, the bully of the state and for each the countries involved," a connection from PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and subordinate manager Tiger Woods said. "We are grateful that his enactment has brought america person to a last deal, paving the mode for reunification of men's nonrecreational golf."

After launching successful 2022, LIV lured respective prima golfers with monolithic salaries, including Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia. 

In June of that year, the PGA suspended 17 players who pledged to play for LIV and promised aboriginal suspensions for anyone who participated successful LIV events.

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Former President Donald Trump, the 2024 statesmanlike hopeful, plays play up of the LIV Golf Invitational bid tourney astatine Trump National Golf Club Bedminster successful Bedminster, N.J., Aug. 9, 2023. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

In June 2023, the PGA Tour and the European-based DP World Tour announced they had a 'framework agreement' for a merger with PIF and LIV.  But the statement ne'er materialized due to the fact that the deadline to implicit that woody passed astatine the extremity of that year.

More than a afloat twelvemonth has passed since, but present Trump's involution whitethorn bring that woody person to fruition. 

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Golf prima Rory McIlroy said successful November helium believed Trump becoming president for the 2nd clip could assistance "clear the way" for a woody betwixt the PGA and LIV. 

Trump has a adjacent narration with Saudi Arabia and LIV Golf, with respective of its 54-hole events being staged astatine Trump-owned courses.

Trump's involution with the PGA-LIV negotiations was 1 of galore large sports moments for the president this week. 

Former President Donald Trump watches his changeable from the archetypal tee during the pro-am anterior to the LIV Golf Invitational - Bedminster astatine Trump National Golf Club Bedminster July 28, 2022, successful Bedminster, N.J. (Charles Laberge/LIV Golf via Getty Images)

Trump changed the people of women's sports past by signing the "No Men successful Women’s Sports" enforcement bid successful the East Room of the White House successful beforehand of pistillate athletes connected National Girls and Women successful Sports Day Wednesday. 

The NCAA rapidly capitulated to Trump's order, announcing Thursday day a caller information argumentation for transgender student-athletes. 

"A student-athlete assigned antheral astatine commencement whitethorn not vie connected a women’s team," the caller argumentation states. 

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It was besides reported this week that Trump volition go the archetypal sitting president successful past to be a Super Bowl. 

The quality prompted excitement from Kansas City Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.

"It's ever chill to beryllium capable to play successful beforehand of a sitting president," Mahomes said. "Someone that is astatine the apical presumption successful our country."

Kelce called it an "honor." 

"I think, you know, nary substance who the president is, I cognize I’m excited due to the fact that it’s the biggest crippled of my life, you know. And having the president there, you know, it’s the champion state successful the world. So, that’d beryllium beauteous cool," Kelce said. 

Former President Donald Trump headlines a Republican National Committee outpouring donor retreat successful Palm Beach, Fla., May 4, 2024  (Donald Trump 2024 campaign)

Gracie Hunt, the girl of Chiefs squad proprietor Clark Hunt, spoke to Riley Gaines connected OutKick’s "Gaines for Girls" podcast and reacted to Trump’s remarks.

"It’s beauteous cool. It’s beauteous awesome," she told Gaines. "Sometimes, I conscionable look astatine whoever I’m talking to, and I’m like, ‘Yeah, that conscionable wasn’t connected my 2025 bingo card.’ But, wow, that’s conscionable perfectly incredible."

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