Three LIV Golf players will tee it up in a DP World Tour event that is supposed to clash with the league’s season finale.

Several LIV Golf players will now play in a DP World Tour event that is supposed to clash with the league’s doomed Team Championship in Michigan.

Despite LIV players being told the $40million season finale will not go ahead in recent days, there has still been no official announcement from the league – adding to the confusion over the tournament which is slated for The Cardinal course at Saint John’s Resort from August 27-30.

Until Wednesday, ground passes and hospitality tickets were still on sale – but a message on the league’s website now reads: “The tickets you were looking for are no longer available.” Last month, Cleeks GC captain Martin Kaymer told TG at LIV UK that the event has only a “five percent” chance of taking place, confirming that infrastructure was still to be erected on the course.

Those odds have diminished ever since, with TNT presenter Craig Doyle offering another clue on golf’s worst kept secret while promoting LIV’s next tournament in Indianapolis. “At this stage, I think we can call it, that is going to be the final event in LIV Golf 2026,” Doyle said on a Sunday broadcast at LIV New York.

TG has reached out to LIV for more information on the impending cancellation, with the league’s finale now set to be moved forward to next week’s event at Chatham Hills. But in the meantime, LIV players have been locking in alternative plans for where they can play, proving that the fate of the team shootout in Michigan is now beyond doubt.

Tyrrell Hatton, Tom McKibbin and Adrian Meronk have entered the British Masters – a $3million event held at The Belfry at the same time the Michigan event is scheduled to take place.

The DP World Tour are inadvertently capitalizing on LIV’s second cancelled event of the season, after the New Orleans tournament was scratched off the schedule in June. It is a boon to tournament host Sir Nick Faldo that home favorite Hatton, the world No.21, will now headline the field at the four-time Ryder Cup venue in Sutton Coldfield.

The field in the English Midlands also includes former Masters champion Patrick Reed and three-time tour winner Eugenio Chacarra, who have both successfully used the European circuit as a landing ground since departing the breakaway league.

Hatton’s commitment to the British Masters came after it emerged the DP World Tour would not be offering the same conditional releases to LIV players next season.

Hatton, Jon Rahm and seven other LIV players are currently playing freely on LIV without incurring fines and suspensions for breaching the DP World Tour’s conflicting rules policy. But a similar agreement will not be made next season, with Wentworth HQ’s hardened stance meaning sanctions will now be accrued by LIV stars who wish to remain members.

That complicates matters for LIV players, who would need to supplement their schedule if they remain as the league planning to move to a leaner 10-event calendar in 2027.