{"id":32823,"date":"2025-07-30T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32823\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:18:10","slug":"golf-news-2025-australian-adam-scott-on-liv-v-pga-tour-talks-with-donald-trump-pga-championship-and-australian-open-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32823\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf news 2025, Australian Adam Scott on LIV v PGA Tour talks with Donald Trump, PGA Championship and Australian Open assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian golfing great Adam Scott<\/a> isn’t hopeful a deal will be struck between his PGA Tour<\/a> and the rival LIV Golf<\/a> organisation any time soon – if at all.<\/p>\n

Scott has been central to negotiations in recent months in his role as a player director for the Tour.<\/p>\n

He joined fellow director Tiger Woods and PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan at the White House in February where they asked US president Donald Trump to help broker a deal with Saudi Arabia’s public investment fund<\/a>, which controls LIV.<\/p>\n

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It’s now been two years since Monahan stunned the golfing world by entering into a handshake deal which many thought would effectively see a merger of the two leagues.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Australian media on Wednesday morning, Scott gave a deflating update on the situation.<\/p>\n

“There’s really been no developments since earlier this year,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Adam Scott was involved in the plea to Donald Trump to help golf.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“So I would say don’t hold your breath.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s pretty clear; the guys who have stayed at the PGA Tour have made a decision to play, let’s say, PGA Tour style golf.<\/p>\n

“And most of them probably would have had the opportunity to play LIV style golf, so they’ve made their choice and there is a divide, obviously, with what people want to do.”<\/p>\n

Scott’s comments add weight to the belief a tangible agreement will never come to fruition between the two tours.<\/p>\n

LIV Golf players are still unable to accrue points on the Official World Golf Rankings which impacts their ability to qualify for majors, unless they have won one previously.<\/p>\n

Australia’s Cameron Smith has tumbled from world No.2 to outside the top 200 since winning the 2022 British Open<\/a>, and defecting to LIV a few weeks later.<\/p>\n

Smith’s game has deteriorated to the point he missed the cut at all four majors this year.<\/p>\n

On the other hand Scott, at 45 years old, found himself in contention on day four at both the US Open and PGA Championship<\/a>. He finished T12 and T19 at those respectively.<\/p>\n

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Adam Scott talks to Cameron Smith during a practice round ahead of the 2023 Masters Tournament at Augusta National.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Scott will fly home to contest the Australian PGA Championship and Australian Open in November and December.<\/p>\n

Scott is gunning for his third Australian PGA Championship which would equal Smith’s three – won in 2017, 2018 and 2022. Smith has not yet committed to playing this year.<\/p>\n

The veteran won his two trophies in 2013 and 2019 when the tournament was played at Royal Pines.<\/p>\n

Scott will compete for the trophy at Royal Queensland this time, where he’s been a member since he was 11 years old.<\/p>\n

“Luckily I’ve won the event in the past, my dad being a PGA member also in Australia, that organisation is close to our family, and Royal Queensland I’ve been a member of since I was 11 years old,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It would be fun to get in the mix, and each time I’m out there playing I see guys who I was on the junior pennant team with, so it would be fun to give my old mates one more thing to cheer about around Royal Queensland.<\/p>\n

“Now that you mention it I am motivated about Cam having won it three times… I think I should (equal him).<\/p>\n

“The party hole has been fun there before, it’s kind of a fairly common thing in golf now. The reason I like it there is it’s kind of a wedge par-3, so I think it’s pretty fair on us that we should hit the green with a wedge.”<\/p>\n

Scott will also compete at The Cathedral in December, which he won last time it was held in 2023.<\/p>\n

The Cathedral – a two-day invitational in rural Victoria – will also feature Aussie greats Marc Leishman, Ian Baker-Finch, and Geoff Ogilvy in the star-studded field.<\/p>\n

Scott opted not to fly home last year for the tournaments but is champing at the bit to contest them this time around.<\/p>\n

“I felt like it was time for a break (last year), and I didn’t get that much of a break either. A couple more weeks would have been nice,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I think I learned my lesson the last couple of years that I’m at the point where I can’t continue pushing myself, it just doesn’t work like it used to, so I’m going to try take it… not easy, but plan my time a little better.<\/p>\n

“I certainly want to come down and give myself a shot at these great trophies at home.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian golfing great Adam Scott isn’t hopeful a deal will be struck between his PGA Tour and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-32823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32823","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=32823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}