Dustin Johnson says LIV Golf schedule will be played in 2024

Although LIV Golf and the PGA Tour have essentially agreed to work together in the future, it sounds like the two leagues may continue down their own paths for at least one more regular season. That’s according to LIV’s Dustin Johnson, who spoke about the league’s schedule for next season.

Johnson recently told ESPN that the governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Yasir Al-Rumayyan, said LIV Golf will have a season in 2024.

“Everything I’ve heard, they’re still working on a full schedule for next year,” Johnson said. “The rest of this year and 2024 is going to be the same as far as I know. After that, you know as much as I do.”

PIF is the primary financial backer of LIV Golf. It’s also part of the merger with the PGA Tour, DP World Golf and LIV.

Although the news of the two leagues working together is now more than a week old, very few individuals actually know specifics about the future. Players on both the PGA Tour and LIV Golf have been reluctant to speak about last week’s announcement because of the uncertainty.

Both PGA Tour members and LIV Golf defectors have taken to the Los Angeles Country Club this week for the 123rd U.S. Open.

Jon Rahm says players felt ‘betrayed’ by PGA Tour

Perhaps the most outspoken about the merger was Masters champion and two-time major winner Jon Rahm. The Spaniard didn’t provide details about the future — he was as uncertain as the rest of us — but did express some frustration in how everything unfolded.

“I was at home, taking care of the kids,” he said. “No, I was just having my normal morning, making coffee and breakfast and basically texts just started flowing in. I thought my phone was gonna catch on fire at one point. … I think, at one point, I told (my wife) Kelley, ‘I’m just gonna throw my phone in a drawer and not look at it for the next four hours because I can’t deal with it.’”

Rahm says that he believes the PGA Tour has listened to its players in the past. However, this was a bit of a different creature.

“I think, to an extent, they value player opinion,” Rahm said. “They’ve certainly heard us throughout the whole process on some of the issues. …

“It’s not easy as a player to wake up and see this bombshell. That’s where we’re all in a state of limbo. … It’s a state of uncertainty that we don’t love.”