Scheffler, McIlroy Reportedly Headline December Team Golf Event Florida

Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, the world's top two golfers, will captain four-man teams in a new all-star team golf event scheduled for mid-December at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida. This event, organized by Versant—a spinoff of Comcast cable networks including USA Network and Golf Channel—will showcase a U.S. versus international format and exclude LIV Golf players, a move that has secured PGA Tour approval. The production involves the same companies behind the 2024 Showdown, an earlier made-for-TV event where Scheffler and McIlroy faced LIV players Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka. The event is expected to air across multiple Versant networks and is positioned as a key late-season highlight following the Grant Thornton Invitational. The choice of Trump National as the venue and the growing relationship between the PGA Tour and President Donald Trump, who is expected to attend, underscore the event's significance in the current golf landscape. Despite hopes for reunification, the exclusion of LIV players indicates ongoing divisions within professional golf.