Golf ‘faces questions over financial viability’ following LIV setback Sport Business LIV Golf’s struggles raise questions about the long-term viability of the sport, according to a new independent report on the business of golf. The breakaway tour’s huge financial incentives disrupted golf and forced the PGA Tour to raise its prize money but LIV now faces an uncertain future after Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund announced [...]
LIV Golf under ‘pressure’ but is ‘the future of the game’, says CEO O’Neil Sport Business LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil says the breakaway tour is facing a “moment of pressure” but has dismissed suggestions that it is on the verge of collapse. Reports this week stated that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund could withdraw its funding of LIV Golf, having spent more than $5bn on bankrolling the signing of stars [...]
Brooks Koepka return puts PGA Tour and LIV Golf back on collision course Sport Business Brooks Koepka’s return to the PGA Tour shows that it and LIV Golf are back to being rivals again, says former European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley. The PGA Tour this week confirmed it had accepted Koepka’s application to rejoin the circuit and opened the door for other high-profile LIV Golf defectors Bryson DeChambeau, Jon [...]
How Jon Rahm can finish chequered season with a £15m double September 13, 2024 By his own very high standards 2024 has not been a vintage season for Jon Rahm but this week the former world No1 could claim the first leg of a LIV Golf double worth more than $20m (£15m). Rahm has endured the most fallow year of his prolific career, the first in which he has [...]
McIlroy, Scheffler, DeChambeau and Koepka to compete in LIV vs PGA TV battle September 4, 2024 The rivalry between the LIV Golf League and the PGA Tour will reach another level in December with Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler taking on Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka. The made-for-TV clash will put four of the biggest names in golf against each other, with LIV’s American duo taking on Northern Irishman – and [...]
Jon Rahm reveals LIV Golf League plan after closing in on £14m prize August 19, 2024 Koepka beat Rahm at the first extra hole of a play-off to win at Greenbrier and become the first player to claim five tournaments on the LIV Golf circuit.
Sam Torrance: History favours McIlroy but Scheffler’s still the man to beat at US PGA May 15, 2024 McIlroy is back at Valhalla as the US PGA Championship returns to the Kentucky venue, and that is not the only little bit of history repeating itself.
McIlroy says ‘stars are aligning’ as he eyes end to 10-year major drought at US PGA May 13, 2024 Attention now turns to Valhalla, scene of his last major triumph at the 2014 US PGA Championship.
Koepka ‘feeling good’ after rediscovering winning touch at LIV Golf Singapore ahead of US PGA defence May 6, 2024 Koepka won his first title since October in his last event before defending the major.