Donald Trump remains confident in PGA-LIV merger as he hosts dinner for rebel golfers at his plush Miami course

President Donald Trump remains adamant that the PGA Tour and LIV Golf could travel to immoderate benignant of an statement contempt a stalemate that threatens a merger betwixt the two.

According to a study from The Guardian, the 2 sides exchanged correspondence and the Saudi PIF laid retired a database of demands - which the PGA Tour recovered unacceptable.

Those demands included an assurance that LIV could proceed to run and that Saudi PIF seat Yasir Al-Rumayyan could go the co-chair of PGA Tour Enterprises.

However, considering the PGA Tour's existent lasting is overmuch amended than the PIF's golfing task successful presumption of viewership and prestige, it's not apt the PGA volition let those concessions.

On Thursday, Trump is acceptable to big a meal astatine his Doral people successful Miami. Mid-flight, the President told reporters that helium remains funny successful merging the 2 tours.

'Ultimately, hopefully, the 2 tours are going to merge. That'll beryllium good. I'm progressive successful that too,' Trump told reporters on-board Air Force One. 

'But hopefully we're going to get the 2 tours to merge. You person the PGA Tour and the LIV Tour. And I deliberation having them merge would beryllium a large thing.'

After landing, Trump was whisked distant by his Marine One chopper to Doral - wherever helium was picked up successful a play cart by his son, Eric.

Trump is expected to present a code astatine a meal with LIV players and different guests connected Thursday earlier departing for Mar-a-Lago. 

LIV Golf is struggling to bring successful viewership. Back successful mid-March, the rebel circuit tried competing with The Players and got a meager 34,000 viewers connected Fox Sports 1 conscionable aft primetime - compared to the 3.6million for NBC's last circular coverage.

Not lone is the PGA Tour out-drawing LIV successful the USA astatine a origin of 100-to-1, but galore of the large wealth contracts fixed retired to golfers enticing them to articulation the rebel league are acceptable to expire.

As a result, galore golfers person publically indicated their disinterest oregon choler with the advancement the circuit has made.

Brooks Koepka publically said helium thought the circuit would beryllium 'further along' successful its 4th play than it presently is. 

But LIV's caller CEO, Scott O'Neil remains steadfast successful the content that the circuit won't request a merger to survive: 'Do we person to bash a deal? No. It would beryllium bully to bash a deal, truthful agelong arsenic we're each focused connected the aforesaid things.'