LIV Golf Enters Limbo As 2026 Season Concludes With Future Unclear

LIV Golf concluded its roller coaster 2026 season Sunday with no clarity regarding if or when the league will return for a sixth year in 2027.

“I have great thoughts about what could happen next year—I wish I could be more upfront about it,” Bryson DeChambeau said after the final round of LIV Golf Indianapolis. “But ultimately I’m proud of the fact of what we’ve done, the good and some of the bad that we’ve unfortunately had, things that have occurred. I’m going to be real with it; not everything was perfect. But for the most part we’ve done a solid job.”

DeChambeau’s five-season contract with LIV expired Sunday, but the league’s biggest star has been heavily involved in helping shape LIV’s future. The Saudi PIF has ended its funding of LIV after spending roughly $6 billion on the golf circuit since launching it in 2022. LIV is in talks with London-based BC Partners Credit about a new funding deal, but nothing has been finalized yet. “I think there’s something fun coming,” DeChambeau teased at the end of his TV interview Sunday evening.

The 2026 season concluded in Indianapolis due to the cancellation of the LIV Golf Michigan event, which was set to host a $40 million team championship this week in suburban Detroit. Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII won the re-tooled team championship competition in Indianapolis, earning $8.4 million for the team. Rahm had previously clinched the season-long individual championship that came with a $6 million bonus.

Rahm has multiple years remaining on his LIV contract, which began with the 2024 season and may be impossible to pay out with the PIF’s funding gone, but he didn’t offer much detail when asked about his future with the league. “I’m looking forward to going home and helping my very pregnant wife with the kids because it’s a 3-v-1 right now,” Rahm said. “It’s probably a 4-v-1 with the one that’s due in October. Happy to be dad for a few days before I get back for the Irish Open, but mainly looking forward to a haircut tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. because I need one badly.”

DeChambeau and Rahm are LIV’s two biggest stars, and losing either one would be a major blow to the league’s future outlook—and could impact the terms of any potential investment deal with BC Partners. LIV and BC do have an unspecified deadline to finalize an agreement, likely around Sept. 1, many sources close to the league say.

LIV has been pitching a “LIV 2.0” model that would include 10 events in 2027—five international and five in the U.S. timed mostly around the four major championships. Countries like Australia, South Africa, Spain, Mexico, and the U.K. have hosted well-attended LIV events in recent years. “I hope people can see that we actually bring value to the game of golf,” DeChambeau said Thursday in Indianapolis after his first round. “My wish is that people give us one more shot and be open minded.”

Beyond securing new funding and building a 2027 schedule, LIV still has a number of unpaid vendors and contractors to settle up with, as lawsuits against the league and claims of money being owed continue to pile up.

LIV’s 2026 season ultimately had 12 events, down from the scheduled 14, as the events in Michigan and Louisiana were canceled. LIV has played 62 events in total since launching in 2022.