Dan on Golf Show<\/a>, Pieters details how he was ready to walk away entirely in Mexico as rumors swirled that the league could come to an abrupt end.<\/p>\n![\"4Aces](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4aces-thomas-pieters-under-armour.jpg\")
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\u201cIt wasn\u2019t pleasant,\u201d Pieters said of the news. \u201cThe atmosphere was very grim. I had enough of it after three or four hours. Everybody talking about it, everybody\u2019s checking Twitter every two seconds. On Tuesday evening I called home and I was like, \u2018I\u2019m ready to retire on Monday if they really pull the plug that quick.\u2019 That was OK with me \u2013 kind of. We\u2019re going to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pieters was the world No.35 when he joined LIV three seasons ago. He has not played a major since the 2023 Open Championship, but has earned north of $15 million on the league and now plays alongside Dustin Johnson, Anthony Kim and his childhood friend Thomas Detry on the 4Aces.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was ready to retire two years ago and ever since everything\u2019s a bonus for me,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m good at golf and I love it but it\u2019s going to end at some point. I feel like I was on the right side of the wave. People look at it a different way but I felt I was on the right side of the wave. I feel like I\u2019ve got a lot out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pieters says he is in the dark about LIV\u2019s future, revealing that \u201cwhatever comes out officially from LIV is what we\u2019re getting half a day before it goes out. Scott [O\u2019Neil] is telling us that he\u2019s going to a broader market and trying to fund this for next year. I guess it\u2019s a massive challenge. But we just have to wait and see.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether Pieters would indeed retire if LIV folds remains to be seen. Just don\u2019t expect to see the 34-year-old competing again Stateside. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m definitely never going back to the PGA Tour,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve never liked that life. And that\u2019s not me having a go at the PGA Tour, it\u2019s not for me. I tried it and I just wasn\u2019t happy there. If [LIV] goes away, I\u2019ll probably try and play some on the European Tour or I don\u2019t know. I really don\u2019t know actually.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not fussed about it at this point because I feel like I still have a duty to focus on these next six, seven tournaments on LIV and then we\u2019ll see. They\u2019re obviously trying to get it together for next year. We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n
The consensus is that LIV would need to dramatically adapt its product to survive. Gone, it seems, are the $30 million purses that the PIF have been putting up for its events this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are just guessing right now,\u201d Pieters speculated, \u201cbut if we\u2019re playing for $5 million next year or I could play on the DP World Tour for $3 million but be close to home, that\u2019s something I\u2019d have to look at it when it comes.<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly there\u2019s guys going. But I think that\u2019s up to Scott and his team to get this thing together and we\u2019ll just have to find out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV Golf is still reeling from a fraught week in Mexico when it emerged that Saudi Arabia was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-651059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651059","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=651059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}