LIV Golf going ahead ‘full throttle’ staff told, league pushes back at rumours of demise

Rumours of LIV Golf’s demise have been greatly exaggerated according to sources close to the league’s operations, who pushed back at the swirling speculation that has dominated the sport for the past day.

Several normally credible accounts on social media had claimed the league was on the verge of collapse, while The Daily Telegraph reported that LIV executives had been summoned to an emergency meeting in New York, and the Financial Times said Saudi Arabia’s Private Investment Fund, which backs the tour, was on the verge of pulling out.

However, with Mexico City gearing up to host this week’s event, a source told the South China Morning Post that the “LIV Golf season is continuing as planned” and Scott O’Neil, the LIV CEO, sent a bullish message to league employees saying they were going ahead “full throttle”.

In an email seen by the SCMP, O’Neil told employees they were heading into the rest of the 2026 schedule “with the full energy of an organisation that is bigger, louder, and more influential than ever before”.

“The life of a start-up movement is often defined by these moments of pressure,” O’Neil wrote. “We signed up for this because we believe in disrupting the status quo. We have faced headwinds since the jump, and we’ve answered every time with resilience and grace. Now, we answer by doing what we do best: putting on the most compelling show in sports.”

Former Masters champion Sergio Garcia, who signed with LIV Golf in ⁠2022, was among the players who spoke to media at Club de Golf Chapultepec ahead of Thursday’s first round, and was asked to comment on the reports that financial support to the circuit was on the verge of being cut.