Adam Scott says LIV players should “re-establish themselves in the system they want to go to”, as the future of Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman and Elvis Smylie remains uncertain.
Today marks the end of DeChambeau’s LIV story. His next one runs through the league he left, sued and fought, because for the first time since 2022 the PGA Tour has no competitor. How it handles DeChambeau will be a measure of whether the tour remembers what that’s like.
Akin to giving a eulogy at your own funeral, LIV chief executive Scott O’Neil offered his initial thoughts in a release announcing the upstart league’s decision to begin “an orderly wind-down of its operations”.
After delaying a player commitment deadline, multiple reports say there weren’t enough golfers to satisfy the company to move forward with the investment.
The DP World Tour has spent too long living off decisions made by others, and if it wants a future of its own making, helping finish off LIV – and strengthening its brand in the process – is a sensible place to start.
A report in The Athletic says that the group claims it’s owed more than $US100 million in payments and is looking for what essentially would be “severance deals”.
With LIV Golf’s future hanging by a thread, reports of the Australian’s exit adds to a brutal week for the breakaway league, with a crucial October 25 deadline fast approaching.
Tyrrell Hatton, the bearded and mercurial Brit who was one of LIV Golf’s most recognizable players, is officially out for any future iterations of the league.