LIV Golf is falling apart on a flawed premise and a broken promise
LIV Golf's collapse stems from its reliance on unsustainable Saudi funding and a flawed premise of redefining golf's traditions, despite moments of on-course success like in Adelaide. While the league promised globalisation and reform, its financial model and branding failed to maintain long-term viability. The departure of Saudi backing leaves uncertainty for its future, with fans and lower-tier players likely to bear the brunt of its downfall.
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analysisAdelaide showed how good LIV Golf could be, but it was built on a flawed premiseDBy Dean BiltonTopic:Golf57m ago57 minutes agoThu 30 Apr 2026 at 11:32pmDonald Trump with former LIV Golf chief executive Greg Norman. (Getty Images: Megan Briggs)abc.net.au/news/liv-golf-analysis-tournament-dies-on-a-broken-promise/106629232Link copiedShareShare articleThe starting point for any and all retrospectives on LIV Golf is to acknowledge it represented something different to almost everyone involved.Those retrospectives will flood in following the news of the week, which isn't so much "news" as it is confirmation of what we knew a fortnight ago, only this time without the sneering and duplicitous cries of "fake news" from within the breakaway league.The Saudi money is gone and so is LIV Golf…
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