{"id":700481,"date":"2026-05-28T17:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700481\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:44:14","slug":"liv-golf-to-refund-fans-after-making-surprise-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700481\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf to refund fans after making surprise change"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tAs the uncertainty around LIV Golf\u2019s future grows, the league has made a significant change to its broadcast offering\u2026<\/p>\n

LIV Golf are working on a plan to refund fans after dropping one of the key features from their broadcast. <\/p>\n

When the league began its eighth event of the season in Korea on Thursday, it emerged that the \u201cAny Shot, Any Time\u201d feature was not available as part of the broadcast offering. LIV customers can pay a total of $59.99 per year or $8.99 per event to showcase shots from any player and live streams of specific groups as part of their tournament offerings. <\/p>\n

The premium feature used AI technology to allow viewers to watch any shot they would like, and was lauded by LIV\u2019s fans as it became a popular part of the league\u2019s app. <\/p>\n

But it was confirmed to the Sports Business Journal<\/a> on Thursday that the feature had indeed been axed. <\/p>\n

The cost for LIV to run the feature at each event across the world has not been disclosed, but it\u2019s understood that the league is considering how to evaluate its production model with key decisions to be made to ensure LIV\u2019s survival. Dropping this feature was described by a LIV official as a \u201cstrategic decision\u201d. <\/p>\n

Some fans on social media expressed disappointment the feature had been cut, while LIV are planning to refund those who bought annual passes.<\/p>\n

LIV, meanwhile, are currently scrambling for a future without the backing of the Saudi Public Investment Fund, which confirmed last month it was withdrawing its multi-billion dollar funding.<\/p>\n

TG has learned that several players have offered the league financial leads<\/a> for potential investors, while plans have been made for a truncated season with fewer events in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the uncertainty around LIV Golf\u2019s future grows, the league has made a significant change to its broadcast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-700481","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\/700481","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=700481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}