{"id":335140,"date":"2025-12-08T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335140\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:19:08","slug":"liv-golf-chief-executive-scott-oneil-hopes-for-owgr-solution-by-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335140\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf chief executive Scott O’Neil hopes for OWGR ‘solution’ by 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five-time major winner and PGA Tour player Rory McIlroy last month criticised LIV Golf’s “irrational spending”<\/a> on huge player contracts saying that it makes a merger very difficult, and that LIV would have to keep spending to maintain its position.<\/p>\n

O’Neil does not want to be drawn into a war of words with LIV’s most outspoken critic.<\/p>\n

“Rory has had an extraordinary career and is an extraordinary player,” said O’Neil.<\/p>\n

“I’ve met him a couple of times, but I don’t know him so don’t really want to comment. All I will say is I am working every day to create the greatest sports league in the world. <\/p>\n

“We have players who are committed and our players commit to a different level of travel.”<\/p>\n

When pushed on whether there would be further significant spending on player contracts O’Neil said: “I only have an 11-month view. I wasn’t here when they had to do what they had to do to set LIV up, I wasn’t here when some of the madness in the ecosystem was happening.<\/p>\n

“I only know from the first day of January when I showed up, I have hired a business team that I would argue is second to none in terms of commercial acumen. So I like what we do and how we do it.<\/p>\n

“I feel like there’s a good opportunity to have plenty of growth in markets like Australia, Korea, the UK, North America, South Africa, Mexico, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore. I know I am in the market. There are golf fans everywhere.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five-time major winner and PGA Tour player Rory McIlroy last month criticised LIV Golf’s “irrational spending” on huge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-335140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}