“If you can't beat your enemy, join him.”

Recently, the PGA Tour, the main and most traditional professional golf organization in the United States, announced a merger with LIV Golf, a professional golf league founded in 2021 in Saudi Arabia.

Since LIV Golf's founding, the two organizations have endured a turbulent period, with a heated exchange of barbs that led to lawsuits, player suspensions, rule changes at events, and statements from prominent figures in the sport, such as Tiger Woods, against the new league. Following all the disputes and events, the PGA Tour announced its merger with LIV Golf last year.

In addition to the case presented above, in today's article, we'll present other similar cases that occurred in the major US sports leagues (Basketball, American Football, Baseball, and Hockey). All of them underwent mergers with competing leagues as they vied for dominance in their respective sports.

Recommendation: If you want to delve deeper into the dispute between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, the documentary "Golf Days", produced by Netflix, tells a little about the daily lives of today's great golfers, with the dispute between the two leagues as a backdrop.