​The PGA Tour is undercutting LIV Golf in a major way by striking a new multiyear deal with the Asian Tour, which has had a significant financial and competitive partnership with LIV since the league launched in 2022.The PGA Tour and DP World Tour, which have a strategic alliance, will partner with the Asian Tour in a deal—running through at least 2029—that will establish pathways for the leading Asian Tour members to earn status on the DP World Tour beginning next season. The DP World Tour will also co-sanction select tournaments with the Asian Tour.From 2016 to 2021, the Asian Tour had a strategic alliance with the DP World Tour. But in 2022, ahead of its inaugural season, LIV committed to investing $300 million in the Asian Tour over the next decade. That helped create the International Series, a set of marquee events on the Asian Tour with elevated $2 million purses that provided pathways for players to earn spots on LIV. The International Series also allowed LIV members to earn Official World Golf Ranking points before the league began receiving ranking points this year.There will be no change to the remaining five International Series events this year, a source with knowledge of the situation tells Front Office Spots. But the expectation is the Asian Tour will not renew its deal with LIV after this season, which ends in November at the PIF Saudi International.“We feel the time is now right to collaborate with the DP World Tour and PGA Tour to enhance the Asian Tour for our members, fans and partners,” Asian Tour commissioner and CEO Cho Minn Thant said in a statement in Tuesday morning’s announcement, which did not specifically mention the International Series.“Bringing the three Tours together under one partnership will increase the bandwidth of the professional game in Asia,” Thant said. “Not only will co-sanctioning events see our members competing regularly on the global stage, but we are excited to welcome players from the other Tours to our pinnacle events, which showcase the strength and diversity of golf in Asia.”Thant led negotiations for the Asian Tour; for the DP World Tour it was CEO Guy Kinnings and chief tournament and operations officer Ben Cowen; on the PGA Tour side, SVP of international Christian Hardy and chief commercial officer Dhruv Prasad headed up talks. “Together, we are creating new opportunities for players, enhancing key national opens around the world and continuing to evolve and strengthen pathways to identify and develop the next generation of elite talent,” Hardy said in a statementThe additional efforts around national opens are notable because LIV has also been prioritizing ways to collaborate with some of those tournaments in 2027 and beyond. This year, the Masters and Open Championship began awarding spots to the winners of six select national opens. Tom McKibbin was the first LIV player to win his way into Augusta National by claiming victory at the 2025 Hong Kong Open, an Internati