LIV Golf revealed the first four events of its 2025 season on Tuesday night.
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longoing feud between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf it has now reached the two-and-a-half-year mark, and as both tournaments turn the page to 2025, it is becoming clear that there is no end in sight.
When Commissioner Jay Monahan announced the 2025 PGA Tour schedule before the FedEx Championship St. Jude in August, he played 39 tournaments, but showed no room for any kind of deal or merger with LIV Golf. At the time, Monahan agreed with that assessment, saying, “I think that’s about right.”
On Tuesday night, LIV Golf made its own schedule announcement, revealing the first four events of what it called in a press release its “third full official season.”
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season opener, LIV Golf Riyadhwill start on February 6 at Riyadh Golf Club, followed a week later by LIFE Golf Adelaide (February 14-16) at Grange Golf Club in Australia.
Two weeks later LIV goes to Hong Kong Golf Club for LIFE Golf Hong Kong from March 7-9, before moving on to Sentosa Golf Club next week for LIV Golf Singapore (March 14-16).
Included in the press release was a statement from LIV CEO Greg Norman that displayed a confident outlook for LIV’s future and made no mention of any merger with the PGA Tour.
“As we set our sights on 2025, LIV Golf is gearing up for our most ambitious start to the season to date,” Norman said in the press release. “Since our debut in 2022, LIV Golf has played 34 tournaments in nine different countries on four continents. We are a global league with a global footprint and are excited to kick off next season with four truly international events that will deliver our unique blend of elite golf, entertainment and culture to fans around the world.”
It was eerily similar to Monahan’s own message in August when announcing the PGA Tour schedule, though he did at least mention negotiations with the Public Investment Fund, which finances LIV.
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“There’s tremendous momentum (on the PGA Tour). I think that’s reflected in the energy you see coming into the Playoffs, the ’25 schedule, and we’ve seen and continue to see a lot more innovation,” Monahan said at FedEx St. Jude, “and certainly the conversations with the Fund of Public Investment is an important part of the journey that we are on this year and that we will continue to continue.”
Nor did it offer any hope to golf fans sick of fighting and anxious for an official end to the feud, one the golf world thought was imminent when the two sides announced the Framework Agreement in June of 2023.
But after a brief hiatus following that deal, players have continued to switch tournaments, The hot take has continued to fly from the main figures in the game, the deadline for a final deal came and went last December and no visible progress has been made in negotiations.
Furthermore, when we put the 2025 tournament schedules side by side, it becomes clear that the competition between the two sides is still on.
All four LIV 2025 events that have been announced take place in the same week as major PGA Tour events.
LIV Golf Riyadh will be played the same week as the WM Phoenix Open, and the following week LIV Golf Adelaide will run concurrently with the Genesis Invitational, a signature event hosted by Tiger Woods.
The week of March 9 will see another PGA Tour signature event, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, take on LIV Golf Hong Kong. When LIV Golf Singapore kicks off next week, The Players Championship – the tour’s biggest event of all – will take place at TPC Sawgrass.
So while negotiations appear to have stalled, both LIV Golf and the PGA Tour are moving forward into the dark future independently.
