LIV Golf’s sixth tournament of the season is scheduled to start Thursday.
But will players make it off the tee at Club de Golf Chapultepec? And even if LIV Golf Mexico City does finish without a hitch, will there be a seventh tournament later this year?
Those questions have seemingly been answered in the affirmative by the league’s CEO, Scott O’Neil.
“His message was the tour is 100% funded through the rest of the year,” Golf Channel’s Rex Hoggard reported on “Golf Central” Wednesday evening. “The message also addressed the Financial Times report ... they called that rumors and false.”
There was growing speculation throughout the day about whether the golf circuit would be financially solvent enough to carry on and make its scheduled domestic debut at Trump National Golf Club in Washington, D.C., from May 7-10.
Sergio Garcia, the 2017 Masters winner who captains LIV’s Fireballs GC, responded to questions that LIV leadership held an emergency meeting in Manhattan this week and that financial support was on the verge of being cut.
“We haven’t heard anything other than what Yasir [Al-Rumayyan] told us at the beginning of the year. That he’s behind us, that they have a long-term project,” said Garcia in reference to the governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which finances LIV Golf. “You know there are always a lot of rumors, and I can’t tell you anything more than what we already know.”
Details of the emergency meeting were not provided in the report, but sources did say that representatives from the Public Investment Fund were in attendance.
The league posted its shotgun starts scheduled for 3:15 p.m. ET Thursday. The pre-tournament pro-am was played as scheduled Wednesday without any impediment.
