Justin Thomas - Lot players don't know with LIV, PGA Tour talks - ESPN

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — For the last three years that Justin Thomas has stepped onto the interview podium at the Players Championship there has been one constant: the topic of LIV, the PGA Tour and their ongoing battle.

«I think we're kind of past the level of exhaustion,» said Thomas, who won the Players in 2021. «There's just so many of us, really on both sides, both us on tour and I think the LIV players, that we don't really know what's going on and we're just playing golf and hoping for the best and because there's a lot that we don't know and that we can't control.»

Even though the two parties jointly announced a framework agreement between the tour and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia on June 6, 2023 (and that the agreement expired on Dec. 31 that year), no deal between the two parties has been formally signed and negotiations remain ongoing.

Most recently, player directors Tiger Woods, Adam Scott and commissioner Jay Monahan met with White House officials Feb. 20 in order to try to speed up what they have staunchly described as the reunification of professional golf. Monahan and Scott had previously met with President Donald Trump on Feb. 4 at the White House attempting to fast track the federal government's approval of the tour's proposed deal with the PIF, which plans to inject $1.5 billion into the tour's for-profit entity, PGA Tour Enterprises.

«The talks are real,» Monahan said Tuesday. «They're substantial.»

«We believe there's room to integrate aspects of LIV golf into the PGA Tour platform,» Monahan added. «We will not do so in a way that diminishes the strength of our platform.»

Thomas acknowledged that though players are fatigued and want to move past it, he knows it's not that simple.

«It's