{"id":928451,"date":"2026-10-15T00:42:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/928451\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T00:42:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:42:40","slug":"liv-golf-future-call-due-by-end-of-the-month-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/928451\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf future call due by end of the month \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"

An attorney for LIV Golf has told a US federal bankruptcy court judge that a decision on whether \u200cthe rebel circuit winds down operations or moves forward with a proposed 2.0 model will be made by the end of the month.<\/p>\n

During the hearing, \u200cthe attorney made the court aware of the circuit\u2019s concerns regarding a recent ultimatum issued by DP World Tour chief executive Guy Kinnings this week to any players contemplating a future with LIV 2.0.<\/p>\n

Kinnings said players will not be allowed to compete on both LIV 2.0 and the European circuit next season and must make a choice as the DP World Tour will no longer allow certain players to compete on a limited \u200cbasis.<\/p>\n

\"PatrickAmerican Patrick Reed is just one player leaving LIV Golf for the DP Tour. (Michael Errey\/AAP PHOTOS<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re continuing to \u200cmonitor this situation very \u2060closely and we\u2019re quite concerned by it frankly,\u201d attorney Rob Fitzgerald told the court on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re reserving \u200ball rights and remedies in respect to these statements that are made \u2026 the timing in particular strikes us as a clear attempt to interfere with our process with our players and potentially our reorganisation writ large.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt also raises a lot of the same anti-competitive concerns that LIV has expressed previously regarding the way competing leagues have sought to box out and punish market participants, namely these players, from participating in LIV and really only \u2060LIV.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judge Michael Kaplan acknowledged that the comments from Kinnings did raise concerns and \u200casked to \u200bbe informed of any updates regarding the matter.<\/p>\n

When asked about Fitzgerald\u2019s remarks, the DP World Tour said it had no additional comment \u200bbeyond what Kinnings \u200cdeclared on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlayers need to make a choice,\u201d Kinnings said in the statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we have said for many years, \u200bwe have rules and regulations which are there to protect our Tour and which our members must all abide by. Players who are not willing to comply with our rules and regulations should not be seeking to join our Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JonFormer Legion XIII captain Jon Rahm is looking forward to life after LIV Golf. (AP PHOTO<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The \u200bhearing came one week after an attorney for former world \u200bNo.1 Jon Rahm told the court that his client independently \u200creviewed the proposed terms of LIV 2.0 and decided to quit, robbing the circuit of one of its biggest names.<\/p>\n

Kaplan also approved the amended restructuring support agreement between LIV Golf and BC Partners, which allows the rebel circuit to rehire staff and start planning initiatives for its next iteration.<\/p>\n

He additionally ticked off on the \u200bamended agreement in which BC Partners would provide as much as $US300 million ($A431 million) in financing to LIV Golf, including an initial $US4 million ($A5.8 million).<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is \u200ban important first step in order to \u2060really identify viable paths for the debtor, either through continuing operations or a wind-down,\u201d Kaplan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An attorney for LIV Golf has told a US federal bankruptcy court judge that a decision on whether…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,405163,85,2614],"class_list":["post-928451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-overseas-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928451","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=928451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}