Golf’s ‘Deal or No Deal’ Keeps Dragging on, but the PGA Tour Doesn’t Need One

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Governor of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and LIV Golf chairman (pictured together last October), continue to talk but no deal is imminent. | Ross Parker/SNS Group via Getty Images

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The state of professional golf is like a former game show: Deal or No Deal.

The answer to the unfinished PGA Tour-LIV Golf framework agreement, so far is this: “No deal, Howie!” (With apologies to Howie Mandel, the former host of the infamous game show of the same name that all of us have watched at least once, even if you won’t admit it.)