Fact or Fiction: Will LIV Golf Ever Merge with the PGA Tour?

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Fact or Fiction: Will LIV Golf Ever Merge with the PGA Tour?
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The article discusses the possibility of LIV Golf merging with the PGA Tour, analyzing various scenarios and opinions from golf experts. It also touches upon the return of The Skins Game and the challenges it faces.

Welcome back to SI Golf’s Fact or Fiction, where a dozen golf balls are always an acceptable holiday gift. Once again, we’re here to debate a series of statements for writers and editors to declare as “Fact” or “Fiction” along with a brief explanation. Responses may also (occasionally) be “Neutral” since there's a lot of gray area in golf.. They would be far better off directing their energies toward official competitions that include all of these players.

Another one-off event among the parties is likely in the works anyway. Getting LIV players eligible for the Presidents Cup—which is not going away—would be another avenue to explore as soon as possible.Bob’s right that the better outcome would be a series of Tour events that bring everyone back together plus folding LIV into existing team events. But what if those things, you know … don’t happen? DeChambeau’s idea would be better than nothing. In fact let’s just call it the “Better Than Nothing Cup.”. Interest in this kind of event was high with fans two years ago but the continued dragging of negotiations has cooled so many things around the pro game. Now everyone just wants all the top players together at meaningful events more often than four weeks a year. And the PGA Tour would have little to gain and a lot to lose; instead it should open the Presidents Cup to LIV players. The Skins Game, once a popular Thanksgiving-week event on the golf calendar before being put down in 2008, will return next year on Black Friday. In a: “It was a great show while it lasted. Those sequels never work, do they?” He’s right, this reboot will be a tough sell.. Unless they are playing for their own money—which is what true skins is all about—it is hard to see another golf event in a calendar full of them having huge impact.It’s a tough sell because it lands in the heart of a silly season already stuffed with matches and other alternate-format events. It’ll also be up against the NFL, so it won’t be eas

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