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Sports<\/a>Golf<\/a><\/p>\n With LIV Golf losing its Saudi funding after this season, the conversation has quickly switched to where all these golfers will (or should) play<\/p>\n Get the latest from Jon McCarthy straight to your inbox Sign Up <\/p>\n Published May 11, 2026 \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 4 minute read<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n You can save this article by registering for free here<\/a>. Or sign-in<\/a> if you have an account.<\/p>\n The PGA Tour has won the game of chicken so there is no reason to flinch now.<\/p>\n Advertisement 2<\/p>\n This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY<\/p>\n Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.<\/p>\n Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account.Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on.Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists.Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists.Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword.<\/p>\n SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES<\/p>\n Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.<\/p>\n Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account.Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on.Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists.Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists.Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword.<\/p>\n REGISTER \/ SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES<\/p>\n Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.<\/p>\n Access articles from across Canada with one account.Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments.Enjoy additional articles per month.Get email updates from your favourite authors.<\/p>\n THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK.<\/p>\n Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.<\/p>\n Access articles from across Canada with one accountShare your thoughts and join the conversation in the commentsEnjoy additional articles per monthGet email updates from your favourite authors<\/p>\n Article content<\/p>\n This week\u2019s PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club outside Philadelphia marks the first time both sides of golf\u2019s formerly warring factions will get together since reports that the ever-flashy LIV Golf is soon to be broke.<\/p>\n Article content<\/p>\n Article content<\/p>\n The breakaway league has been put on life support after world events \u2014 or disinterest and disappointment \u2014 led the Saudi Public Investment Fund to abandon funding after dropping more than $5 billion into LIV over the past five years.<\/p>\n While the end of LIV\u2019s actual product is of little to no concern for the vast majority of golf fans, the conversation has quickly switched to where all these potentially homeless (but fabulously wealthy) golfers will go should LIV fail to secure new investment (good luck with that) and close up shop for good.<\/p>\n Of course, we don\u2019t actually know what many of these LIV golfers want to do in the future. Journeyman pro Anirban Lahiri seemed somewhat offended recently that fans and analysts would think he and his LIV colleagues would even want to step foot back on the PGA Tour, calling it \u2018the biggest joke ever\u2019 and saying at least ten of his LIV pals would rather retire than go begging back to the American tour.<\/p>\n Monday Morning Golf<\/p>\n Thanks for signing up!<\/p>\n Article content<\/p>\n Advertisement 3<\/p>\n This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n Article content<\/p>\n Which makes some sense considering the 38-year-old Lahiri, who was never a factor at the game\u2019s highest level, has stuffed his pockets with $35 million of LIV Golf money despite having zero wins over there.<\/p>\n And perhaps there is a common element to many of the players who opted to take their talents to LIV Golf. After all, trying to be the absolute best in the world at something is a relentless, exhausting and almost always a fruitless pursuit that\u2019s not for everyone, especially once reality sets in.<\/p>\n And there is nothing wrong with contentment, but perhaps don\u2019t talk smack on your way to the couch.<\/p>\n Or on your way to YouTube golf.<\/p>\n Does the PGA need the LIV Golf stars?<\/p>\n There has been a long-running narrative that golf needs all the best players playing against one another on the same tour. It\u2019s what the fans want and it\u2019s what the PGA Tour needs, at least that\u2019s how the story goes. LIV\u2019s megastars Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm and a handful of other top players better hope that sentiment continues to exist, even if it\u2019s not actually true.<\/p>\n Advertisement 4<\/p>\n This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n Article content<\/p>\n In reality, the LIV Golf experiment has proven the old adage that \u2018time is undefeated\u2019 as well as the popular meme that \u2018life comes at you fast\u2019 because the truth is the PGA Tour needs none of them.<\/p>\n Sports stars can seem bigger than life and omnipresent at times, but history is full of athletes who by injury, scandal, poor play, or simply no good reason at all, disappear overnight. Sure, some become legends, but more become answers to a trivia question.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s because sports, like life, waits for no one.<\/p>\n For the golf example, let\u2019s go back five years to the dawn of LIV Golf.<\/p>\n When 2022 began, a golfer named Scottie Scheffler had zero wins and could walk into any Chipotle in the world without getting recognized. Scheffler, now the undisputed world No. 1, notched his first PGA Tour win at the Waste Management Open four months before LIV\u2019s inaugural event.<\/p>\n When LIV Golf was putting together its roster of hopefuls, he was a talented nobody in the golf world. He now has 20 wins and four majors.<\/p>\n Advertisement 5<\/p>\n This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n Article content<\/p>\n U.S. Open winner and current world No. 4 Matt Fitzpatrick also had zero wins on the PGA Tour at the beginning of 2022, and his brother Alex was barely born yet. OK, I made the second part up, but the point is that sports is a constantly refreshing ecosystem and to think that there will be some giant crack in the history of the game if DeChambeau and Rahm don\u2019t rejoin the tour is folly.<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n Oh my god, it’s Christmas Eve for golfers, everybody stay calm<\/p>\n![\"Jon](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0512-jon-rahm-liv-golf.jpg\")
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