Report: PGA Tour's peace talks at White House with LIV's mastermind went terribly

The PGA Tour may have put a positive spin on the recent meeting at the White House with LIV Golf's mastermind.

But according to a report by Golfweek, the summit didn't go as Tour executives had planned. 

On Thursday, PGA Tour player directors Tiger Woods and Adam Scott - along with commissioner Jay Monahan - met for peace talks with LIV's chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan.

Hours after the meeting was held - which also included American president Donald Trump - the Tour released a statement saying that a 'constructive working session' took place with Al-Rumayyan, who is also the governor of Saudi Arabia's PIF. 

Golfweek's Eamon Lynch reported: 

Rumblings from informed sources suggest that Thursday’s meeting at the White House didn’t go as well as Tour executives had hoped, which suggests that PIF governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, remains determined to keep shoveling cash into the furnace of his own pridefulness. 

Read the full piece here. 

Reunification talks have been ongoing ever since a 'framework agreement' was announced between the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour and the Saudi PIF in June 2023. 

Any agreement would need to be scrutinised by the U.S. Department of Justice. 

It is understood that Trump's involvement will expedite the deal. 

Trump has consistently called for an agreement between the parties. 

Rory McIlroy recently made the claim that Trump is actually on the Tour's side in golf's civil war. 

"I learnt that he's not a fan of the LIV format," McIlroy recently said, adding that he put it to the president that he had hosted LIV events.

"He was like, 'yeah, but it doesn't mean that I like it', so I think he's on the Tour's side."

Woods has been playing golf with Trump in recent weeks and also suggested that the world of men's professional golf will heal 'pretty quickly'. 

Speaking from the commentary booth during the 2025 Genesis Invitational, Woods said: "We're going to get this game going in the right direction. 

"It's been heading in the wrong direction for a number of years. The fans want all the top players playing together and we’re going to make that happen."

It is unclear what the main stumbling blocks between the PGA Tour and the PIF are. 

Many within the sport have suggested that there would be problems welcoming back the likes of Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson, Cameron Smith and Jon Rahm without ramifications for jumping ship.

McIlroy reckons golfers need to simply 'get over that'. 

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