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Jon Rahm won LIV Golf’s Mexico City event Sunday, capping off a roller coaster week for the league, which has significant questions lingering about its future.
The crowds at Club de Golf Chapultepec during the final round were noticeable—but not overwhelming—as Rahm topped David Puid by six strokes to seal the $4 million winner’s check, and his Legion XIII squad also won the team competition, which paid out $3 million to the winners.
The final three rounds of LIV Mexico City were broadcast without any problems, after Thursday’s opening-round feed was unavailable for nearly three hours due to local power outages. Fox and FS1 had weekend coverage in the U.S.
Bryson DeChambeau, who had won the previous two LIV tournaments, withdrew due to a wrist injury after the third round, when he was tied for 41st.
Meanwhile, LIV announced Sunday it will return to Mexico City for the league’s fifth event in the country, but did not announce specific tournament dates. LIV has previously announced 2027 dates for four other events in Australia, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa.
Money Talks
LIV CEO Scott O’Neil indicated Thursday that the league will be exploring adding new investors, after reports that the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia is set to end its financial backing of the golf tour. In an interview on LIV’s first round broadcast from Mexico City, O’Neil said: “Do you have to raise money? Probably. This is business.”
In a separate interview with LIV’s U.K. media rights partner TNT Sports, O’Neil said, “The reality is you’re funded through the season, and then you work like crazy as a business to create a business and a business plan to keep us going.” However, the original video was deleted, and reposted without O’Neil’s comments that seemingly confirmed LIV does not have guaranteed funding after this year.
In an email to LIV staff Wednesday afternoon, O’Neil had said the season “continues exactly as planned, uninterrupted and at full throttle.”
Rahm, after his first round on Thursday, said, “Since everything happened so suddenly and so quickly, I wasn’t very worried about it because normally, before the rumors start, we already know something.” LIV’s Ian Poulter on Thursday said the league is “full steam ahead” moving forward.
LIV Heads to Trump D.C.
LIV is off for the next two weeks before reconvening for the league’s first U.S. event of the year, LIV Golf Virginia, at Trump National Golf Club in Washington, D.C., from May 7-10.
U.S. President Donald Trump has not said whether he will attend any portion of the event, which is one of two LIV tournaments this year at Trump-owned courses. Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey will host LIV Golf New York on Aug. 6-9.
LIV Virginia will be the seventh of 14 events on the league’s 2026 schedule.
