It has been nearly two years since Jay Monahan and Yasir Al-Rumayyan shook hands on television and announced a $3 billion merger between the PGA Tour and PIF. But has the deal become a reality? Not yet. To everyone’s dismay, the merger is getting delayed after delay and the only answer the people get is that it is complicated, which is not just annoying for the fans but also PGA Tour pros.

At the latest No Laying Up podcast, 32-year-old Harry Higgs showed his frustration over the delay and disclaimer alert: it is all his opinion. Higgs explained that he was out of the meeting rooms and didn’t have a clear idea but he had an opinion on the different subcommittees the PGA Tour introduced this year, like the Transaction Committee for the merger.

The Transaction Committee has Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Jay Monahan, Adam Scott, and others. Taking a jab at it, Higgs said, “It cannot be this complicated… They’ve set up that we’re into subcommittees now to try to figure this subcommittee. Yeah, this is silly.” Even Charles Barkley had called the PGA Tour and LIV Golf idiots and stupid for delaying the merger, and Higgs resonated with this sentiment.

He had also called out the PGA Tour on spammed emails saying the same thing but without any actual progress, while further adding, “Stop saying you are having a productive meeting. Clearly, you’re not. You’re having productive meetings for the better part of the two years.” But Higgs was not just all complaining, he also had one suggestion to end this fiasco.

Higgs shares suggestions for quicker PGA Tour merger finalization

While Harry Higgs was fed up with the PGA Tour and PIF’s merger delay, and wondered what was taking so long, he made a long-shot prediction that it was probably the lawsuits. If you have forgotten, let me refresh your memory. Right after joining LIV Golf in 2022, many players including Phil Mickelson filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Tour. Higgs pointed out that the lawsuit was probably the hurdle for welcoming the defectors back on the PGA Tour after the merger without any consequences.

So what’s the solution? Per Higgs, the PGA Tour may want to sign a few players under contract just as LIV Golf does. The 3-time Korn Ferry Tour winner explained that after the influx of capital in the PGA Tour Enterprise, “Let’s just get them all under contract. Let’s just give 20 guys with 10 million-a-year contract and then we can tell them where they need to play.” However, he clarified not many may be willing to give up their freedom.

But the Tour could allow players to choose the events they want to play in on the LIV Golf or the PGA Tour partially. Higgs suggested that these 20 will be the golfers who can grow the game like Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Bryson DeChambeau, Bryson Koepka, and others; 4 or 5 from this list will get relegated based on performance to give other golfers a chance. Will this suggestion solve the problem? Certainly not, but the PGA Tour could try it if it helps finalizing the merger soon.