Will the PGA Tour-LIV Golf battle end in 2025?

The world of men’s professional golf has been disrupted since the arrival of LIV Golf in 2022.

The PGA Tour and LIV Golf have been working to reach an agreement to reunite the game for more than 18 months. But there hasn’t been much movement on the union front for some time.

Adam Scott, who sits on the PGA Tour Enterprises transaction subcommittee with Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, which is negotiating with the Saudi backers of LIV, says there’s a reason things have stalled.

“Same as always. It’s bad, Scott said Doug Ferguson of the Associated Press this week at the Sony Open. “It’s not worth talking about. Obviously, it’s so complex and when (the U.S. Department of Justice) is involved, I think we sit back and just wait for them.”

Scott told Ferguson there should be some moves “soon.” But what that will look like is still anyone’s guess.

The potential end of the PGA Tour-LIV battle was a topic on the latest episode of “Kostis & McCord: Off Their Rockers,” a GOLF production, with both co-hosts giving their crystal ball prediction for the state of golf in 2025.

“I anticipate there will be a resolution to the LIV-PGA Tour conflict in 2025,” Kostis said. “It will no longer continue after 2025. What that solution will be remains open.”

Kostis went on to speculate that the PGA Tour will have to give up its desire to be the sole home of men’s professional golf in 2025.

“There are a multitude of reasons why we are where we are in professional golf,” Kostis said. “Not the least of which is the PGA Tour’s desire to have a monopoly on professional golf. They want to be all and sundry for professional golf. That’s going to be gone in 2025. They’re going to have to learn to exist in an ecosystem that includes more worldwide golf, whether it’s LIV or the DP World Tour or whatever the case may be.”

McCord believes the two tournaments will end up not merging in 2025 and that LIV’s rumored interest in buying the DP World Tour will play a role.

“The whole thing is LIV versus the PGA Tour. That’s it. Everything else revolves around that. Will they get together? Or will they exist separately? I think they will exist separately,” McCord said. “From what we’re hearing, (LIV) is going to buy DP World Tour. It’s already there. They already get (Official World Golf Ranking) points. They can go get their 20 events to play there. Now these guys get world ranking points, so they can literally go and play in the majors and do what they want to do. (They can) be in these big tournaments now that they get world ranking points.”

McCord added that having two tournaments isn’t necessarily a negative for golf.

“Now, you have two shifts. Is it bad?” McCord said. “I don’t know if it’s bad. Because the way I see it, if you’re trying to market this and increase TV ratings, there’s nothing better than having two distinct entities that hate each other. I mean, we hate each other. Look at the Ryder Cup, those guys don’t necessarily hate each other. They are neighbors in Florida. But that particular week they get mad at each other and go on tirades. What if we had that as a constant? And you’d have these guys playing against each other. There are benefits in it.”

For more on the topic, or to watch the entire episode, click on the video below.

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