If determination are nary players, determination is nary LIV 2.0.
So the adjacent fewer weeks volition beryllium captious successful providing the circumstantial details players accidental they're presently lacking to marque decisions implicit their future.
When asked if determination was a captious wide of players needed to motion up for the aboriginal earlier a transaction could beryllium done, O'Neil said: "The entirety of our absorption is to get to this transaction and get done it.
"Without the players, that becomes precise difficult. I person a bully level of assurance successful my speech that we'll person a captious wide of the close players to determination this league forward."
Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell, who joined LIV successful 2022, told BBC Sport the temper among the players was "subdued".
"There are 57 players retired present connected LIV and determination are 57 antithetic mindsets," said the 2010 US Open champion.
"Some guys person immoderate exemptions successful different tours, immoderate person obscurity to spell [if LIV folds]."
He said helium would beryllium "taking a measurement back" to enactment retired his aboriginal aft the Indianapolis event.
"If LIV 2.0 goes ahead, we'll look astatine the docket and however it each plays out, and spot if that suits maine and my lifestyle," McDowell added.
"I person an accidental to spell backmost to the European Tour and play determination arsenic well.
"Whether the 2 of those tin hap simultaneously, whether I tin lone bash 1 oregon the other, determination are questions similar that we don't cognize the answers to. Until I get that, it's precise hard to marque immoderate decisions."
When asked by BBC Sport astir his future, Smith, who joined LIV conscionable aft winning The Open successful 2022, said determination would beryllium a "little spot of clip to deliberation astir that erstwhile the play is done".
Would helium similar to instrumentality with LIV? "I truly emotion LIV," helium said. "It has done wonders for my family, for play successful Australia, my friends, the radical that we've got to conscionable astir the world. It would beryllium a shame for it to beryllium done, but we'll spot what happens."
Other players did not consciousness comfy speaking connected the record.
One elder subordinate said determination is an "emotional" feeling among the radical arsenic they await clarity.
Another told BBC Sport "it's been great", earlier rapidly adding "it is great".
It was made wide Jon Rahm - whose aboriginal is the root of sizeable speculation - would not talk to media speech from his tourney obligations.
American Bryson DeChambeau declined an interrogation petition from BBC Sport.
But aft Thursday's archetypal round, helium said: "We decidedly person a batch against us.
"If it works, it works, awesome. If it doesn't, we'll fig things out. Time volition determination on, and I would accidental that clip heals things.
"I anticipation radical tin spot that we really bring worth to the crippled of golf. My privation is that radical springiness america 1 much changeable and beryllium unfastened minded."
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