The road ahead for LIV Golf \u2013 2 scenarios that will determine its future<\/a><\/p>\nIn May, Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund, confirmed it would no longer fund LIV Golf after 2026, five years into the league\u2019s timeline. LIV chief executive Scott O\u2019Neil has had to rethink operations and is seeking investment between $US250 million to $US300 million.<\/p>\n
That has happened in the background while the league had to postpone an event scheduled originally for last month until the northern autumn.<\/p>\n
There are nine LIV Golf players in the field this week because they\u2019re in the middle of a seven-week break between LIV Golf Andalucia, played before last month\u2019s US Open, and its UK event after the Open Championship.<\/p>\n
Ortiz, 35, whose lone PGA Tour win came at the 2020 Vivant Houston Open, has won 10 times around the world on four different tours. He\u2019s earned a reported $US34 million for LIV despite only having one victory on the league. He was asked overnight (Australian time) about LIV\u2019s future and what that means for his own schedule.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s looking a little bit tough. Hopefully there\u2019s a way forward,\u201d Ortiz said after the second round in Germany. \u201cI honestly don\u2019t know all the situation, but it\u2019s not looking great, obviously, as we all know. That\u2019s a shame, I\u2019ve really enjoyed my time playing all around the world and it\u2019s been awesome playing with my team, [Torque GC]. \u201cWe\u2019ll see what happens, but whatever happens, I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll find a place to play and, for me, it\u2019s just about playing golf. If I can start coming to places like this and seeing new places, then it will be great. For me, whatever happens is totally fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adding a maiden DP World Tour victory to his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 this weekend would only offer Ortiz more options.<\/p>\n
LIV golfers are in the middle of a seven-week break between LIV Golf Andalucia before the US Open and its UK event after the Open Championship. Ortiz is making good use of that downtime by teeing up at the DP World Tour stop in Munich this week. He shot 67-67 at the Golfclub M\u00fcnchen Eichenried and sat 10-under-par at the midpoint. Ortiz trailed Hennie Du Plessis by one shot, while American YouTube golf star Brad Dalke is in contention at nine-under on his DP World Tour debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo: Octavio Passos] Carlos Ortiz sits one shot off the lead after 36 holes at the DP World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,341124,175220,118461,755,138747,368590,14239,85],"class_list":["post-777542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bmw-international-open","tag-carlos-ortiz","tag-dp-world-tour","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-golfclub-munchen-eichenried","tag-liv-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777542","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=777542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}