“There’s no merger, no conversations; we’ve been really concentrated on the PGA Tour,” PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp told Bloomberg TV in a recent sit-down interview. It’s quite the turnaround from June 2023, when the PGA Tour and DP World Tour agreed to merge with LIV Golf in what seemed to many a waving of the white flag in the war between the two golf factions. As those merger talks stalled, the PGA Tour regrouped, drawing lessons from LIV’s defectors and reshaping the structure of its tournaments and prize money. Several defectors started returning to the PGA Tour, though not without repercussions. https://t.co/KeGKgOKxb3 — Kevin Van Valkenburg (@KVanValkenburg) August 7, 2026For all its faults, LIV woke the PGA Tour up to many of its outdated practices and the need to revise how it conducts business, especially around player compensation.