The PGA Tour is back in the made-for-TV golf event business with a report that Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy will headline a team event in December.
The Sports Business Journal reported that Scheffler and McIlroy will be the two captains for pro golf’s most recent TV exhibition, a team showdown set for mid-December.
According to SBJ’s Josh Carpenter, the event is largely a showcase for Versant, the SpinCo stemming from the spinoff of Comcast networks.
“McIlroy and Scheffler will serve as captains of two four-man teams, likely in a U.S. versus international, all-star skills-type format,” Carpenter wrote for SportsBusinessJournal.com.
There’s one other significant wrinkle to the event, per Carpenter’s reporting: LIV players will not be allowed to play, a decision that allowed PGA Tour to sign off on the event. There was some controversy after Scheffler and McIlroy essentially went off on their own to play a team competition late in 2024 alongside Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in Las Vegas.
The report also indicated the event is likely to be played at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Fla. The club is just a 30-minute drive up I-95 from Mar-a-Lago. That does lead one to believe President Donald Trump could make an appearance at the event, especially considering how cozy he and the Tour have gotten in recent weeks and months.
The PGA Tour announced a return to Trump’s Doral club for the 2026 season. Trump, who announced he’d be at the 2025 Ryder Cup, has become far more prevalent in Tour business in his first year back in office, notably hosting a summit between the Tour and the Saudi Arabian PIF in February 2025 with hopes of reunifying men’s professional golf.
That reunification certainly doesn’t feel any closer to happening with this announcement, though, as the Tour has iced out LIV players.
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