Before arriving for the Liv Golf event at Doral, Florida, Trump said he hoped the two groups would "ultimately" merge.
"That'll be good. I'm involved in that too," Trump told reporters on the flight to Miami.
"But hopefully we're going to get the two tours to merge. You have the PGA Tour and the LIV Tour. And I think having them merge would be a great thing."
Trump called the LIV golfers — a roster that includes Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and others — "some of the best players in the world."
The president was driven to the edge of the hotel property late Thursday afternoon, shortly after he arrived, in a golf cart by his son Eric Trump, who played in the LIV Miami pro-am at Doral earlier Thursday alongside Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and others.
Trump waved to a few dozen supporters who were nearby and briskly walked into a nearby building.
Trump was scheduled to deliver a speech at a dinner with LIV players and others Thursday night and was expected to be on-site for a few hours before departing for his primary Florida residence in West Palm Beach.
The LIV tournament at Trump's Doral property starts Friday and concludes Sunday.
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