{"id":500568,"date":"2026-04-29T21:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=500568"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:23:59","slug":"death-knell-for-liv-golf-as-saudi-funding-withdrawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=500568","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Death knell&#039; for LIV Golf as Saudi funding withdrawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIV Golf is all but done, with players reportedly hours away from being told the Saudi Public Investment Fund has pulled the plug.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Wall Street Journal, players will be told some time on Thursday (US time) the PIF will no longer bankroll the tour from the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The move sounds the death knell for the upstart that sowed chaos in professional golf\ufeff,&quot; The Journal wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes just days after the tour&#x27;s maiden event in New Orleans was postponed by the hosts over financial concerns.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>MORE TO COME.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"7d650a14-5ed9-492e-b51c-34b01c381a38\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7d650a14-5ed9-492e-b51c-34b01c381a38\" alt=\"Cameron Smith of Australia warms up on the Tournament Practice Area ahead of a practice round prior to the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, Monday, April 06, 2026. (Photo by Kieran Cleeves\/Augusta National\/Getty Images)\" data-width=\"3085\" data-height=\"1735\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>LIV Golf is all but done, with players reportedly hours away from being told the Saudi Public Investment Fund has pulled the plug. According to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=500568\" title=\"&#039;Death knell&#039; for LIV Golf as Saudi funding withdrawn\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500571,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500568\/revisions\/500571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/500570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}