LIV Golf Livestreams Crash Minutes After Mexico Event Tees Off

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.

After showing several shots of players’ opening holes—including an ace on the Par-3 4th hole by Joaquin Niemann—LIV’s live feed of the action cut to black. For more than an hour, the live feed on LIV’s YouTube channel played elevator music with a message reading: “PLEASE STAND BY TECHNICAL ISSUES.”

At the time of publication, the streams were still down.

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).

FS1 is scheduled to take over the broadcast of the first round at 6 p.m. ET.

A social media account for golf on Movistar Plus+, LIV’s media rights partner in Spain, posted, “A power outage in Mexico City has caused a signal drop for the @livgolf_league Mexico City. In a few minutes, we hope to be able to connect with the tournament. We apologize for the inconvenience.”

LIV did not immediately respond to a request for comment by FOS.

LIV Voices Fire Back

Before the tech problems, LIV announcers Arlo White and 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.