The PGA Tour continues to negotiate with Saudi Arabia's LIV and the DP World Tour about a potential merger between the entities, which was officially announced in June and had an original deadline of Dec. 31 to iron out the details before talks were extended.
The lack of clarity surrounding how that merger will work—and when it will finally take place—has created a sense of uncertainty around the sport.
"I think in the end, we are in a transitional state where we now have competition and that's leading to a lot of disruption and change but it's also in the end product going to make golf more global where the best players travel more," Phil Mickelson, one of the original defectors to LIV Golf, told reporters on Wednesday while discussing the state of the merger.