Trump weighs in on LIV Golf, PGA Tour after Saudis pull funding of startup league

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is withdrawing billions from LIV Golf at the end of the 2026 season, casting a shadow over the upstart golf league's future.

After LIV Golf formally announced Thursday that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund will no longer fund the startup league, President Donald Trump is excited about what may come out of it.

With LIV's monetary future in question beyond 2026, reports say golfers who defected from the PGA Tour for LIV want to reverse course.

Trump believes that would be positive for the sport.

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President Donald Trump reacts as he walks on the course at the ribbon-cutting ceremony at a new 18-hole course at Trump International Golf Links July 29, 2025, in Balmedie, near Aberdeen, Scotland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"I do believe that all of the golfers should be playing against each other. They were viewing something as a monopoly, but it’s swaying away. It should be the opposite of a monopoly," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Thursday.

"I want to see Rory [McIlroy] playing Bryson DeChambeau. I want to see big Jon Rahm playing Scottie, who is so great. Scottie Scheffler is great. They have great players on LIV, but it’s almost like people want to see that. That's why the Masters was so good, because you saw everybody together.

"The tour wants to have the best players. You can't have the best player that they're boycotting now. They may do something, you know, a little bit, but they'll all be back on tour, and it'll be great. I don't know what's happening with LIV. 

"I’m not sure what’s happening with LIV, but they are playing at my course in two weeks on the Potomac, beautiful course. But right now [the PGA Tour] at