An executive from LIV Golf has revealed the Saudi-funded series are willing to offer a four-man team spot to their rivals from the PGA Tour to compete in their 54-hole events.
Since forming last summer, LIV has found itself at war with the PGA Tour, with the pair battling to become the sport's leading circuit across the professional game. At times their dispute has been ugly, and neither side has seemingly made any attempt to settle their differences.
This is until now though, with a boss from the breakaway circuit teasing the plan of a potential crossover between LIV Golf and players from the PGA Tour.
Arguably the most unique aspect of the breakaway circuit's model is its team competition, with all 48 players split into teams of 12.
As a result, the unnamed executive has revealed LIV are open to offering a spot to four of the PGA Tour's biggest players, before proposing the American-based circuit return the favour at the Players Championship.
The idea of the Tour agreeing seems slim, with commissioner Jay Monahan doing everything in his power to mute LIV's momentum. The powers that be at the rebel league however, have warned the PGA Tour they are 'not going anywhere' as he put the crossover offer on the table
Speaking to Sports Illustrated, the executive said: "We're not going anywhere. There's an opportunity for more teams, the opportunity to cross-pollinate from an all-star PGA Tour team that might have the top four FedEx players coming to compete in every event or our top four players playing in the Players Championship, whatever it might be.”
Calling on the powers that be within the sport to come to some sort of truce, they added: "If we sit around the table and start discussing... what does the future of the sport look like with historic levels of investment? We've always said the sport can be in a better place.
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"It requires some wise heads to sit around and start mapping this out as opposed to trying to fight against it. Work with it.” With their slogan 'golf, but louder', LIV Golf are priding themselves in modernising the professional game and so far they have enjoyed some relative success. This was seen at their very first event in Australia last month, when a sell-out crowd packed into The Grange for LIV Adelaide.
"Sixty percent of our attendees were under 45, so it’s reaching a different crowd,” the executive added. “If you were at the Fisher concert in Adelaide, it did not feel like a golf event, it felt like a real festival atmosphere and golf was at the heart of it.”
