Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nHe was even involved in multiple White House meetings with US President Donald Trump earlier this year to try broker a deal to reunify the men\u2019s professional game.<\/p>\n
But since news of those Oval Office discussions broke, things have gone quiet.<\/p>\n
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It has been more than two years since PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and governor of the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund Yasir Al-Rumayyan stunned the golf world by announcing a framework agreement to merge.<\/p>\n
Scott suggested that the two parties remain poles apart.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s really been no developments since earlier this year. So, I would say, don\u2019t hold your breath,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s pretty clear that the guys who stayed at the PGA Tour made a choice to play, let\u2019s say, PGA Tour-style golf, and most of them probably would have had the opportunity to play LIV-style golf,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, they\u2019ve made their choices and there\u2019s kind of a divide in what people want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
BLAINE, MINNESOTA – JULY 25: Adam Scott of Australia prepares to putt on the seventh green during the second round of the 3M Open 2025 at TPC Twin Cities on July 25, 2025 in Blaine, Minnesota. (Photo by Andrew Wevers\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Several suggestions have been put forward as part of a reconciliation process.<\/p>\n
With LIV having locked in a deal for their successful Adelaide event until the end of 2031, it is fanciful at present to think that the breakaway league is going anywhere.<\/p>\n
That is why a possible solution put forward within golfing circles has been to allow star players to interchange between tours for marquee events.<\/p>\n
When the prospect of Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and\/or countryman Cameron Smith returning to the PGA Tour for the odd appearance at showpiece stops on the schedule was raised with Scott, he all but shut down such an occurrence taking place.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s a less of a consideration that it\u2019s been made out to be,\u201d the 2013 Masters champion said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think the (PGA) Tour can change the way it sets its competitive format up for three players, potentially.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite his heavy involvement in the PGA Tour, there is no bad blood between Scott and those that jumped ship.<\/p>\n
BLAINE, MINNESOTA – JULY 25: Adam Scott of Australia plays his shot from the tenth tee during the second round of the 3M Open 2025 at TPC Twin Cities on July 25, 2025 in Blaine, Minnesota. David Berding\/Getty Images\/AFP (Photo by David Berding \/ GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA \/ Getty Images via AFP)Source: AFP<\/p>\n
He is notably friendly with the likes of Dustin Johnson, particularly at their annual champions dinner at Augusta National, and he maintains a good relationship with his fellow Australians who represent Ripper GC.<\/p>\n
Scott even joked about having added motivation to win a third Australian PGA title at his boyhood club of Royal Queensland to ensure that Smith does not have one over him, saying \u201cnow that you mention it, I am motivated about Cam having won it three times\u201d.<\/p>\n
But when the possibility of playing alongside the likes of Smith and Marc Leishman in a one-off showing at LIV Adelaide, Scott said that the current state of affairs wipes such a suggestion off the table right now.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe, down the road, but there\u2019s a lot of differences in the way things have to work to be able to do that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, it\u2019s not working collaboratively at the moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we\u2019ll see in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian superstar Adam Scott has implored golf fans to not \u201chold your breath\u201d over a potential merger deal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[5487,2620,2095,29454,29468,64,11537,63,29473,29465,29469,3193,29458,2490,6927,29472,2105,755,1745,29459,29464,29452,29466,5494,29457,29462,29455,5387,2041,2067,29470,29471,29453,29456,29460,29461,29463,85,2614,29467],"class_list":["post-31459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-adam-scott","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-america","tag-andrew-wevers","tag-annual-champions-dinner","tag-au","tag-augusta-national-inc","tag-australia","tag-australian-media","tag-australian-superstar","tag-blaine","tag-cameron-smith","tag-david-berding","tag-donald-trump","tag-dustin-johnson","tag-framework-agreement","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-golf","tag-golf-news","tag-golf-world","tag-implored-golf","tag-instrumental-figure","tag-jay-monahan","tag-marc-leishman","tag-marquee-events","tag-merger-deal","tag-merger-talks","tag-minnesota","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oval-office","tag-player-director","tag-professional-game","tag-reconciliation-process","tag-royal-queensland","tag-saudi-arabia-public-investment-fund-yasir-al-rumayyan","tag-showpiece-stops","tag-sports","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-way-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}