After a turbulent 48 hours for LIV Golf, the league’s Mexico City event got off to a rough start.
The livestreams on YouTube and Fox One, which began at 3 p.m. ET, crashed just minutes after players teed off at 3:15 p.m. ET Thursday, and stayed down for nearly three hours.
Late Thursday afternoon, LIV cited local power outages that were impacting the broadcast feed.
Coverage finally resumed just after 6 p.m. ET, when FS1 picked up the action.
“Welcome back to Club de Golf Chapultepec,” lead announcer Arlo White said. “We experienced a severe local power outage here in Mexico City, so our apologies for the untimely absence. Hopefully, we’re back for the rest of this first round, if the gremlins stay away.”
Down Stream
Shortly after showing several shots of players’ opening holes Thursday afternoon—including an ace on the Par-3 4th hole by Joaquin Niemann—LIV’s live feed of the action cut to black.
For over an hour, the live feed on LIV’s YouTube channel played elevator music with a message reading: “PLEASE STAND BY TECHNICAL ISSUES.” Later on, LIV’s theme music was playing.
At one point, a shot of a fan area at Club de Golf Chapultepec was briefly shown before cutting back to the technical issues message.
On the Fox One stream, an on-screen message read, “WE’RE SORRY, We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties.”
Fox has been LIV’s U.S. media rights partner since the beginning of the 2025 season, but last year the league produced all tournament broadcasts, and this year EverWonder Studio was brought on to “executive produce the 2026 broadcast calendar.” (RedBird IMI is an investor in EverWonder and Front Office Sports).
LIV Voices Fire Back
Before the tech problems, White and fellow LIV announcer David Feherty opened the broadcast defending the league’s positioning in the professional golf landscape.
“First of all, delighted to report that the reports of the imminent demise of the LIV Golf league were, in fact, greatly exaggerated,” White said.
“I’ve been in the professional game for nearly 50 years now, and I don’t think I’ve ever had two or three days where there was more absolute nonsense spread out,” Feherty said. “There are still some writers and broadcasters that take pride in their work, but this generation has spawned a bunch of fast typists that consider themselves to be experts. Evidently they’re not.”
White added: “It must be exhausting trying to will the LIV Golf league out of existence. Take a day off everybody. Enjoy the golf.”
An interview with LIV CEO Scott O’Neil was scheduled to air later in the broadcast, White said.
