Negotiations between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund remain stagnant, Adam Scott confirmed to reporters Wednesday ahead of the Wyndham Championship.<\/p>\n
Scott, a member of the Tour\u2019s policy board as a player director, joined PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and Tiger Woods at a White House meeting with President Donald Trump and PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan on Feb. 20. That was Scott\u2019s second trip to the White House this year to discuss a potential agreement.<\/p>\n
The latter meeting, according to multiple reports, did not go as planned, though Monahan said ahead of The Players that it marked a \u201chuge step.\u201d ESPN then reported in early April that the Tour had rejected a recent PIF offer to invest $1.5 billion into the Tour\u2019s for-profit entity, PGA Tour Enterprises, which this week officially welcomed its new CEO, Brian Rolapp, formerly of the NFL. The PIF\u2019s desire to keep LIV Golf intact was reportedly a major hangup for the Tour.<\/p>\n
And then last month, PGA Tour members were informed in a mandatory meeting, which Rolapp also attended, ahead of the Rocket Classic in Detroit that the Tour and PIF were \u201cat loggerheads with no resolution in sight,\u201d according to a Golfweek report.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s any breaking news that the talks have gone silent,\u201d Matt Kuchar told Golfweek. \u201cThey said we\u2019re still open to negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scott was asked Wednesday about next steps in the Tour-PIF talks.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously there\u2019s not much happening between [the two sides],\u201d Scott said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if more White House visits are really necessary. It was really quite an experience, I have to say. Those conversations haven\u2019t advanced far from there, and with Brian stepping in, a lot of that\u2019s going to fall onto his desk now. I think that he needs some time to kind of really get up to speed and understand what\u2019s going on with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
So far, Scott has been impressed by Rolapp.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis credentials are obviously excellent on paper, but I have a few things that I really liked about Brian,\u201d Scott said. \u201cI think like his personality from the little bit that I know of it, like this calmness to him. I know he\u2019s really excited to take on this role going forward, but he has a very calm nature about him, you know, to me, which was one of the guys involved, I thought I quite liked that. I think he\u2019s coming in at a very interesting time in the professional game and I think that calm demeanor\u2019s going to serve him well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scott enters this week\u2019s Wyndham at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, ranked No. 85 in FedExCup points. He\u2019ll need to crack the top 70 by Sunday evening to advance to the playoff opener, the FedEx St. Jude Championship, which starts next Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will be my last chance to play on the PGA Tour potentially for some weeks; it\u2019s do or die and that\u2019s a fun way to play,\u201d Scott said. \u201cSometimes we or I have fall in the trap of like there\u2019s always next week if it doesn\u2019t work out, and that\u2019s not the case here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Negotiations between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund remain stagnant, Adam Scott confirmed to reporters…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":105561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-105560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114943772971458288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}