The PGA Tour and PIF’s merger has been anything but a struggle. Differences of opinions, a bit of lawsuit, and a lot more have caused the alleged $3 billion merger to be delayed and days away from its finalization. Remember when it was announced in June 2023, shocking the entire golf world, and was supposed to be ready by 31st December 2023? It has not happened yet and nobody knows when it will be done.

However, despite his futile attempts to onboard the PGA Tour as Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund’s other international investment, the governor of PIF and chairman of LIV Golf has found himself on the world’s most influential list. As reported by the Sports Business Journal writer Josh Carpenter on X, Yasir Al-Rumayyan is ranked 45th most influential person of the 2024 season by Fortune, whereas Elon Musk led the pack. Maybe that’s why Rory McIlroy wanted him to get involved in the merger.

Unfortunately despite holding a crucial position on the PGA Tour and PGA Tour Enterprise, Jay Monahan’s name was nowhere to be found on the list. The two have spent more time together in the public’s eye than at any other time. Rumayyan and Monahan showed their growing partnership at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship as they paired up for the pro-am but the PGA Tour CEO doesn’t hold a similar stature as Rumayyan. And it was proved, probably because the PIF governor leads many other projects than just golf.

Regardless, Yasir Al-Rumayyan and Jay Monahan’s priorities are currently similar. Both do want to have a united front in golf because it is hurting both of their leagues. Golf fans want the best of golfers to play more than just at the four majors and that is one of the reasons for the TV rating decline for LIV Golf and the PGA Tour.

Truly, a merger is certainly one thing that may cure the viewership and the intrigue that golf once had for its fans. So when that will be done, what’s the recent update?

When will Yasir Al-Rumayyan’s deal with the Tour be completed?

At this point, this is the question everyone has been finding an answer to since the dawn of time. From both, PIF and the PGA Tour, there has been no such update for the golf world. However, Rory McIlroy who was once on the PGA Tour Player Advisory Council opined that at most, it was a pretty good timeline to expect the PGA Tour-PIF merger to be completed by 2026. Even DP World Tour’s CEO, Guy Kinnings, stated the same.

On the other hand, the framework gets done behind the scenes, the PGA Tour pros have some demands for those who jumped to LIV Golf. As and when the merger is a reality, it will probably become easier for LIV golfers to tee up on the PGA Tour. However, the golfers on the Tour do not want them to return without any repercussions. The point is that some of them dragged the PGA Tour to the courts.

And now, some pros, as Bloomberg reported, wanted Jon Rahm and others to return their contract money with LIV,  pay fines, donate it to charity, or forfeit the winning purse on the PGA Tour.

Contrastingly, the LIV roster didn’t agree to these terms that they should be penalized for taking a risk others didn’t. Right now, the merger is being discussed between the two parties, and as McIlroy said he was positive that the outcome would be near.