Two weeks after LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil claimed the 2026 season would proceed “uninterrupted and at full throttle,” the Saudi-backed golf league bumped into an unintended purple gentle. In keeping with Brody Miller of The Athletic, LIV Golf’s event in New Orleans, LA., which was scheduled for June 25-28 at Bayou Oaks at Metropolis Park, might be postponed.
The damaging information comes amid quite a few experiences and rumors stating that Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund is on the verge of pulling its funding for the LIV Golf League. PIF has spent greater than $5 billion on the rival golf tour since its inception in 2022, however the monetary returns have not been almost as profitable.
With phrase of LIV Golf’s demise spreading like wildfire, O’Neil not too long ago despatched an e mail to his employees and gamers assuring them that the way forward for the league remains to be brilliant.
“I need to be crystal clear: Our season continues precisely as deliberate, uninterrupted and at full throttle,” O’Neil wrote within the e mail, per ESPN. “Whereas the media panorama is commonly full of hypothesis, our actuality is outlined by the work we do on the grass. We’re heading into the guts of our 2026 schedule with the complete power of a corporation that’s larger, louder, and extra influential than ever earlier than.”
Sadly for O’Neil and LIV Golf, the latest information coming from the upstart league does not echo these optimistic phrases.
