Bubba Watson tied for 42nd Sunday at LIV Chicago, the final individual event on the tour’s calendar, to finish 53rd out of 57 players in the season-long points race. As a result, Watson is set to be relegated along with four other players who ended up in LIV’s drop zone.

So it’s no wonder an agreement between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf has not yet been finalized. The U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee of Investigations (PSI) has held three separate hearings related to the PGA Tour’s pending deal with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF),

Rory McIlroy may not have been in attendance for the in-person meetings between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund last week in New York, but he still knows more than most when it comes to the slowly progressing potential deal between the tour and LIV Golf's financial backers.

Rory McIlroy said the main sticking points holding up a deal between the PGA Tour and Saudi backers of the rival LIV Golf circuit are the U.S. Department of Justice and conflicting views from players on both sides.

Merger negotiations between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf have restarted recently but a new sticking point could potentially sink

Bloomberg has reported that the issue over how to reintegrate LIV golfers onto the PGA Tour following their big-money moves to the newer circuit is proving problematic