Scottie Scheffler has outspoken news on PGA Tour-Liv Deal

The consistency of Scottie Scheffler inside and below the golf course is admirable.

From T-shirts to green, the highest ranking players in the world are ruthless. His course management skills and ability to avoid mistakes in changing the game have led Rory McIlroy and others to try to mimic the way the two-time Masters champions win.

Scheffler has never made a position on Liv Golf, too, why the man’s professional golf is still in a fractured state.

“If fans are upset, look at the people left,” Schefler said at the Players Championship last year. “We did a tour, we were together, and the rest were no longer here. At the end of the day, that’s where the division comes from.”

During a massive pre-match call with the global golf media on Tuesday, Schffler was asked if he missed more than four games of top players a year, which felt blunt as to why golf games are still in a difficult situation.

“I definitely missed the game,” Schefler said. “They got some pretty good players on the tour. I still think the PGA Tour is by far the best player in the world. The depth of our field and our game is still the best competition in beating golf games. That’s why I’m still playing on the tour. I love competition. I hope some of them know their choice. For those who left the will.

“They did what they wanted to do and I couldn’t control their lives. I wouldn’t sit here and say they should do something different. They made the choice. If we want to figure out why the golf game isn’t coming back together, go ask those guys, ask these guys. Go anywhere you play this week and find out when the game will be back.”

Last week, at TPC Sawgrass, PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said the tour wanted a desire to reunite the competition but lifted all detection issues regarding the status of negotiations with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF), believing that Liv Golf financing.

Adam Scott, part of the trading subcommittee of PGA Tour, has had more influence on the seemingly stiff state of merger negotiations.

“I think the biggest hook is how we look at competitive golf at the highest level,” said Scott, a player director of the PGA Tour’s Player’s Advisory Board, who recently met with Monahan to negotiate with Donald Trump. “The product of LIV and the product of the PGA Tour are in very different ways. So, I think the challenge is to figure out that this can be put together and really unified, which is what everyone is shooting.”

“I think it’s part of the stumbling block,” Scott later talked about the difference in goals between the PGA Tour and the LIV. “This tour is very cautious and respectful and wants to give everyone, the media and the players, the products they want. But we start with these two different aspects, so I think it’s hard to find a balance that everyone can accept. And, it’s not possible.”

One of the biggest questions in seeking reunion is how the PGA Tour will reintegrate with those who leave. It is fair to assume that all the players who left LIV don’t want to come back, but the PGA Tour will soon re-add people like Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron Smith, who want to return.

Scheffler and Rahm have participated in duels in the past. The two won the last three Masters. They also faced the singles part of the last two Ryder Cups, with Shefleur winning in 2021 and the two halved the game in 2023.

“One of the greatest joys of my career is against Jon,” Schevler said Tuesday. “He is a great player, great talent. I’m sure surprised to see him leave last year when I’m going to miss the game with him. We’ve had some great fights over the years. We’ve had some great fights in the Ryder Cup.

“He is a good guy to compete with him.

The golf game will return to the field in three weeks with the Augusta Nationals. However, in terms of long-term unity, it can take a long time to heal a schizophrenic wound in professional golf.