Donald Trumps message to PGA Tour as walls close | Golf News

Donald Trump has already urged the PGA Tour to welcome back LIV Golf stars amid the breakaway tour’s struggle for survival.

The league, which reshaped the skilled sport and sparked a fierce rivalry with the PGA Tour, now faces an unsure future. Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka turned the first marquee identify to go away LIV Golf and return to the PGA Tour, while 2018 Masters winner Patrick Reed also ended his stint with the breakaway circuit and is working his means back through the eligibility course of.

The PGA Tour and DP World Tour have now struck a recent blow to LIV Golf’s survival probabilities after signing a partnership settlement with the Asian Tour, which had been a essential accomplice of LIV. The Asian Tour had been a pivotal accomplice to LIV since the breakaway league launched in 2022, offering a second-tier circuit and giving LIV members banned from other tours amid the golf civil struggle.

The Asian circuit was also set to play a big function in LIV’s future. LIV is scrambling for new traders after Saudi Arabia withdrew financial help, and its bosses hoped to forge nearer ties with the Asian Tour. LIV Golf had pitched potential traders on a imaginative and prescient of a global schedule constructed around a core collection of marquee occasions, with extra tournaments staged through the Asian Tour and its International Series.

The latest development makes LIV Golf’s future even bleaker, but for its top stars, U.S. President Trump has urged a clear path back to the PGA Tour. “Well, I do,” Trump said earlier this yr in the Oval Office, when requested whether or not he believed the PGA Tour ought to reopen its doorways to LIV Golf stars.

“I’d love to see LIV. But I do believe that all of the golfers should be playing – the great golfers – should be playing against each other. I want to see Rory [McIlroy] playing Bryson DeChambeau. I want to see big Jon Rahm play Scottie [Scheffler], who is so great.”

“There’s something nice about all of the players playing together. Now they’ll all be accepted by the tour … they’ll all be back on tour and it’ll be great,” Trump added.

Trump’s LIV Golf ties

Trump continued to do business with LIV Golf in 2026. In 2026, two Trump-owned programs are scheduled to host LIV Golf occasions.

Trump National Golf Club, Washington, D.C., hosted LIV Golf Virginia in May, while Trump National Golf Club Bedminster is set to welcome LIV Golf New York in August.

Trump National Doral in Miami was a common LIV Golf venue in earlier seasons. However, it didn’t return to LIV’s calendar in 2026; instead, it hosted the PGA Tour’s Cadillac Championship.