LEAK: PGA Tour and LIV to Join as Unified Tour in 2025

According to a recent source, the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, and LIV Golf are set to join forces in 2025 as part of a unified global golf tour featuring 18 tournaments where all three leagues would effectively operate under an umbrella organization run by the PGA Tour, a new report claims.

After the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, and LIV Golf signed a framework agreement in June to end separate operations and join together to bring the best players in the world into one golf league, the details of a unified operation have been under negotiation.

Jordan Spieth of the PGA Tour and Phil Mickelson of LIV Golf were paired together during the final round of the 2023 Masters (Image: Golf Magazine)

However, it appears the details are now becoming more clear, according to Daily Mail Sport, which reported this morning that the three tours will cohesively operate beginning in 2025.

Next year, the three tours are still expected to operate independently. This will change the following year, as an “elite series of 18 events, in addition to the four majors” would be slotted for the “leading players” on each Tour to compete against one another.

12 of the 18 events are expected to take place in the United States.

The invitations sent will be determined by world rankings, although wildcard entrants may be permitted, the report claims.

This will allow the top players who left either the PGA Tour or DP World Tour for LIV Golf to compete against the top competition in golf 22 times a year: 18 times in the new promotion and four times in Major Championships.

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Sources also indicated that the three tours would fall under a single “umbrella organization,” which would be run and controlled by the PGA Tour. This would allow the PGA Tour, which differs from the PGA, to control the 18 events that would feature athletes from all three tours.

The PGA Tour, DP World Tour, and LIV Golf have not put out an explicit statement confirming or denying the report. However, we do know that the negotiations have been ongoing since June, and many players were convinced a deal might not be done by the end of the year.

However, PGA Tour brass, especially Commissioner Jay Monahan, came out in support of a deal and assured those who were concerned that the three Tours would ultimately agree on the framework by the end of 2023.

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