{"id":923459,"date":"2026-04-28T06:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/923459\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T06:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:14:11","slug":"liv-golf-new-orleans-postponed-saudi-pif-funding-speculation-mounts-for-breakaway-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/923459\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf New Orleans postponed: Saudi PIF funding speculation mounts for breakaway league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIV were due to stage the inaugural event at Bayou Oaks at City Park in Louisiana on June 25, but a <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/golf\/2026\/04\/16\/liv-golf-email-dissected-what-letter-to-staff-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">postponement<\/a> is expected to be announced on Tuesday with LIV reportedly needing to change their business model.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neil and his management group are seeking backing from other sources. PIF has already invested more than $5bn in the project since it launched in 2022 and with minimal returns so far, finding investors may be difficult.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with LIV\u2019s UK broadcaster, <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/golf\/2026\/04\/17\/tnt-sport-delete-interview-scott-oneil-liv-golf-chief-saudi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TNT Sport, which was later deleted<\/a>, O\u2019Neil all but conceded that Saudi funding would stop at the end of this season. \u201cThe reality is you\u2019re funded through the season and then you work like crazy to create a business and a business plan to keep us going. But that\u2019s not different than any other private equity business in the history of mankind,\u201d he said after LIV New Mexico two weeks ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV were due to stage the inaugural event at Bayou Oaks at City Park in Louisiana on June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,141423,6506,93,79,1715,39887,16,15,227594],"class_list":["post-923459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-liv-golf-invitational-series","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-tnt-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-us-content"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116480866050962100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}