LIV Golf plans to undergo with its schedule for the rest of the 12 months and 2024 regardless of the settlement to merge with the PGA Tour, former world primary Dustin Johnson mentioned.
The PGA Tour, DP World Tour and rival Saudi-backed LIV circuit introduced the shock settlement to kind one unified industrial entity final week, bringing an finish to a bitter battle that had break up the game.
There is uncertainty about how the golf calendar will look subsequent 12 months below the framework of the merger, with some doubts being raised about whether or not the LIV Golf League team-based competitors would even exist after its 2023 season.
World quantity three Rory McIlroy mentioned he totally anticipated LIV to “go away” after the merger.
However, Johnson, one of many star recruits of the breakaway circuit, mentioned he realized from Yasir Al-Rumayyan that the circuit would proceed subsequent 12 months.
Al-Rumayyan is the governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which bankrolls LIV and also will chair the board of the brand new industrial entity that can kind after the merger.
“Everything I’ve heard, they’re still working on a full schedule for next year,” Johnson informed ESPN on Wednesday. “The rest of this year and 2024 is going to be the same as far as I know. After that, you know as much as I do.
“We just don’t know what it’s going to look like here. We’ll probably know some more in the next six months, but as for now, everything’s just going to stay the same.
“I’m just glad at some point we’re all going to come together and we’re not battling each other anymore.”
Former U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau, one of many first huge names to enroll in LIV, mentioned he spoke to Al-Rumayyan earlier than the deal was introduced on June 6.
“I don’t think (LIV) will go away,” DeChambeau mentioned. “This is what was talked about. Those are private conversations, and I don’t know exactly what his future plans are … There are a lot of unknowns.
“I don’t want to speak for him, but he did tell me something that could be a bigger stage … a big global event that could be really, really cool.”