Adam Scott meets with US President Donald Trump to help resolve LIV merger

A deal between the US PGA Tour and LIV Golf’s Saudi backers kept hitting roadblocks, so they went straight to the top for help.

Adam Scott was part of a PGA Tour delegation that met with new US President Donald Trump in a bid to fast-track the deal with LIV Golf to settle golf’s future landscape.

Regulatory holdups have held back the framework agreement between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Public Investment Fund since plans for a deal first rocked the sport in 2023.

That deal could now be closer, and the divide in professional golf could be removed, after PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and Scott, a player director, met with US President Trump on February 4.

The President is a LIV fan, his courses hosting LIV events since its inception and again in 2025 at his Doral course in Miami.

Scott and Monahan asked him to get involved in their talks with the PIF, which funds LIV, for the “good of the game”.

“We asked the President to get involved for the good of the game, the good of the country, and for all the countries involved,” the PGA Tour said in a statement, which was made by Monahan, Scott and fellow player director Tiger Woods.

STATEMENT: Update Regarding the Future of Men’s Professional Golf pic.twitter.com/yN1JGXN0CK

— PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) February 6, 2025

“We are grateful that his leadership has brought us closer to a final deal, paving the way for reunification of men’s professional golf.“

At the height of golf’s new war, after LIV Golf emerged and poached a range of top players, the PGA Tour, PIF and Europe-based DP World Tour announced a framework agreement in June 2023 to bring their commercial operations together in a new entity.

But after missing a deadline of December 31 to reach a definitive agreement, talks continued with legal holdups.

LIV begins its 2025 season this week in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.