The PGA Tour and the PIF shared a framework agreement on June 6, 2023, with a goal of combining commercial operations under a new for-profit entity later dubbed PGA Tour Enterprises. The parties initially stated a deadline of Dec. 31, 2023, to finalize the agreement, but that window has long since expired without a completed deal.

Rory McIlroy believes professional male golf must ditch at least some of its cherished “traditions” if a peace deal is to be reached with the Saudis to send the sport into a new prosperous age.

LIV Golf boss Yasir Al-Rumayyan is playing alongside PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, but may have fallen foul of a local rule