LIV Golf expected to make $40M cancellation | Golf News

LIV Golf is poised to formally scrap LIV Michigan, the circuit’s $40 million workforce championship, with a public assertion expected as early as Wednesday.

Golf media character Tom Hobbs initially broke the story, which was subsequently verified by sources talking with Front Office Sports. As of Tuesday, no official communication or inner memo had been distributed by the cash-strapped league to gamers relating to the choice, although the development reportedly got here as little shock to those affiliated with or related to the circuit.

LIV Michigan had been slated for Aug. 27-30 at The Cardinal at Saint John’s Resort in suburban Detroit, a facility owned by the Pulte Family Charitable Foundation.

The competitors had been considered as going through vital cancellation risk for a number of weeks, as apprehension mounted within the group that financial assist from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which has already declared it should stop funding LIV following this season, would possibly evaporate even earlier than anticipated.

Sources beforehand informed Front Office Sports that LIV Michigan and the circuit’s regular-season finale in Indianapolis had been the 2 competitions deemed most vulnerable to cancellation, although the Indianapolis event continues to seem on the schedule.

“I don’t think they’ll ever get to Michigan,” one source said last month. LIV CEO Scott O’Neil had equally refused to affirm that all 4 of the circuit’s remaining competitions would proceed as scheduled.

Martin Kaymer, captain of LIV’s Cleeks GC workforce, informed Today’s Golfer last week that the workforce championship was “highly unlikely” to happen, following a captain’s assembly carried out by O’Neil that left questions about the event’s future unanswered.

Adding to those worries, no construction or setup had commenced at the venue, which beforehand hosted LIV’s 2025 season finale last August. Aramco, the Saudi state-owned oil company, had been a principal sponsor of the Michigan event.

This 12 months’s workforce championship was scheduled to distribute $40 million in prize money, with the victorious workforce poised to obtain $11.2 million, both quantities lowered from the $50 million purse and $14 million top prize distributed in 2025.

Last 12 months’s finale at The Cardinal included performances from Imagine Dragons and Swedish House Mafia; no leisure acts had been revealed for this 12 months’s event prior to its cancellation.

The Michigan cancellation marks the second LIV event canceled this season, following the cancellation in April of LIV Golf Louisiana, which was initially scheduled to be the league’s inaugural event in New Orleans in late June.

With Michigan struck from the schedule, LIV’s 2026 calendar has contracted from an anticipated 14 tournaments to 12, leaving only two competitions on this 12 months’s slate: LIV Golf New York at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey, Aug. 6-9, and LIV Golf Indianapolis at The Club at Chatham Hills, Aug. 20-23.

Both remaining tournaments are anticipated to characteristic the league’s typical $30 million purse. LIV is actively pursuing new exterior buyers to substitute the PIF’s financial assist, with the league purportedly in search of to secure up to $350 million to maintain operations through the 2027 season.