{"id":767,"date":"2026-05-23T14:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/767\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:48:35","slug":"liv-golf-louisiana-postponed-as-doubts-grow-over-breakaway-tours-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/767\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf Louisiana postponed as doubts grow over breakaway tour\u2019s future"},"content":{"rendered":"

The state of Louisiana had paid LIV Golf US$3.2 million ($5.5m) as part of its contract, with US$2m going into upgrading the course, but the tour is now expected to pay back the remaining US$1.2m because of the postponement. <\/p>\n

\"TheThe upcoming LIV Golf event in Louisiana has been postponed. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n

This decision adds to speculation about the future of the league, with Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund reportedly only guaranteeing funding until the end of the season<\/a>. <\/p>\n

LIV Golf CEO Scott O\u2019Neill attempted to reassure players and staff<\/a> earlier this month that the tour was fully funded and the season would continue as planned. <\/p>\n

However, some players have looked to return to the DP World Tour, with Tyrrell Hatton, Tom McKibbin, Laurie Canter, Thomas Detry, Adrian Meronk, Victor Perez, David Puig and Elvis Smylie all having agreed to pay existing fines earlier this year, which gave them conditional releases to play in LIV tournaments, and can therefore return straight away.<\/p>\n

Patrick Reed has already gone back to the DP World Tour and its chief executive, Guy Kinnings, told Today\u2019s Golfer players attending and supporting events helps the tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will wait and see how things evolve, but we\u2019re listening to players and agents,\u201d Kinnings said. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor sure, I think there\u2019s opportunity for us to continue to grow the strength of the tour, which is my only job really.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next LIV Golf event will take place at Trump National DC from May 7 to 10, with Kiwi golfers Danny Lee and Ben Campbell expected to take part. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state of Louisiana had paid LIV Golf US$3.2 million ($5.5m) as part of its contract, with US$2m…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[772,438,549,764,761,768,765,44,766,762,774,759,778,236,770,767,763,777,760,771,769,773,779,780,776,623,775],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-about","tag-as","tag-been","tag-breakaway","tag-doubts","tag-event","tag-future","tag-golf","tag-golfs","tag-grow","tag-league","tag-liv","tag-looking","tag-louisiana","tag-more","tag-orleans","tag-over","tag-players","tag-postponed","tag-questions","tag-raising","tag-rebel","tag-return","tag-rival","tag-some","tag-tours","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}