Trump urges PGA Tour to welcome back LIV rebels after Saudi funding dries up

[RandySF]

Donald Trump has supported the reintroduction of LIV Golf players on to the PGA Tour after the league announced the withdrawal of funding by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF).

The US president said he would love to see top golfers who defected to the LIV circuit playing regularly against the PGA Tour’s best as uncertainty engulfed the breakaway league after the PIF announcement.

Trump, speaking in the Oval Office, was asked if the PGA Tour should welcome back golfers who jumped ship to LIV, lured by massive contracts backed by PIF. “Well, I do,” he said. “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.



https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/may/01/donald-trump-urges-pga-tour-welcome-back-liv-rebels-golf

[dem4decades]

1. Probably the only thing he's spent his time thinking about

[vapor2]

7. DON'T forget about the ballroom

[-misanthroptimist]

2. Chalk up another failure to tiny-T

[Pisces]

3. I wish the PGA would say no thanks! Keep your blood money and go away!!! Choices have consequences!!

[Lovie777]

4. LIV......

Saudi funding dries up…….

Everything shithole touches turns to shit. His 1st presidency turned to shit, the 2nd one has already turned to shit and will be much more worse for the US and her people.

The dislike for him and the Republican Party is strong.

[Marie Marie]

11. He's now an actual billionaire thanks to corruption and grift.

Let him pick up the tab to keep the LIV funded and functioning. The PGA should shun all the defectors and traitors who sold themselves to the Saudis for a buck.

[Bmoboy]

5. Scabs

Fuck them.

[RockRaven]

6. Of course he wants opportunists and traitors to avoid their just deserts, he sees himself in them.

[Bristlecone]

8. How long were they gone? 2 years?

They can come back after that same amount of time has expired upon the dissolution of LIV.

How’s that? Take some of their most precious commodity away. Time.

[rampartd]

9. who divided the pros, donny boy?

oh, that's right, as usual. you did.

did you get a trophy for killing the usfl as well?

[RandySF]

10. I have fond memories of the USFL Michigan Panthers.