On Fact Social, Mr. Trump’s social media platform and private megaphone, he wrote: “Nice information from LIV Golf. A giant, stunning, and glamorous deal for the fantastic world of golf.”
Mr. Trump’s son Eric Trump, in an interview on Tuesday, additionally welcomed the settlement, calling it “a beautiful factor for the sport of golf,” including that he expects tournaments to proceed at Trump-owned programs as soon as the merger is full.
When requested if the Trump household had performed a job in urging the PGA Tour and the wealth fund to hitch forces, Eric Trump declined to remark. However he did say that the household has developed shut mates over a few years within the golf world, together with these related to the PGA Tour and LIV.
The Trump household has sought to have extra of its golf programs host LIV tournaments, together with a membership in Dubai and the Trump Turnberry golf resort in Scotland, venues it now hopes to see added in future years to a reunified golf trade.
This displays the extreme effort by the Trump household to deliver occasions to its programs, together with in Scotland, which the British Open, certainly one of skilled golf’s main tournaments, has repeatedly declined to do. Whereas president, Mr. Trump enlisted the American ambassador to Britain to stress the British authorities, unsuccessfully, to carry a match at Turnberry.
The funds from the LIV tournaments don’t present up in Mr. Trump’s monetary disclosure report, which he filed in Could, suggesting that the charges are going on to the person golf golf equipment and are counted as a part of their general revenues. The Trump household has not mentioned how a lot they’re making from LIV.