What a potential deal between PGA Tour Enterprises and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund looks like is still anyone's best guess, but LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil only sees a potential agreement as a positive.

Scott O'Neil, newly on the job as LIV Golf's chief executive officer, is taking an optimistic view on his circuit's future. The Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, LIV's financial backer, is "likely to make an investment in PGA Tour Enterprises,

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan is “overflowing with confidence” that a potential deal to unify the game of golf between the Tour and LIV Golf is “accelerating in the right direction.”

For a guy who comes from outside the world of golf, new LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil now occupies a hot seat among the game’s most powerful decision makers. After the New York native walked into the media center at LIV Adelaide on Wednesday,

The Australian leg of LIV Golf has set the benchmark for the breakaway golf league, according to its new global chief executive, who is on a mission to attract more corporate sponsors and secure more television deals in a bid to replicate the success of the local tournament in other parts of the world.