{"id":582930,"date":"2026-05-14T04:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582930\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:15:23","slug":"liv-golf-players-knew-the-risks-of-rebel-tour-rory-mcilroy-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582930\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf players knew the risks of rebel tour, Rory McIlroy says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tTuesday 12 May 2026 3:38 pm<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tTuesday 12 May 2026 3:39 pm\n\t<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"742\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2275223963-e1778596685596.jpg\" class=\"media \" alt=\"Sorry, I need more context from the article content to generate an appropriate alt text for the image.\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\"  \/>\t\tRory McIlroy says LIV Golf players knew the risks they were taking\t<\/p>\n<p>Rory McIlroy says LIV Golf players knew the risks they were taking when they jumped ship to the rebel league, as uncertainty clouds the tour\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>LIV\u2019s backer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/liv-golfs-decline-leaves-sport-with-more-questions-than-answers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund<\/a>, this month confirmed that it will withhold further funding following the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The move has come as part of a wider pivot away from sport by the sovereign wealth fund and could leave LIV stars such as Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm in limbo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was always a possibility that could happen,\u201d McIlroy, a long-time LIV critic, said ahead of this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgachampionship.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">US PGA <\/a>Championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir [PIF] priorities shifted and that leaves LIV in a pretty precarious spot, but that was always a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of us almost knew before the players did that this was going to happen. It feels like the rug was pulled from under their feet and everyone was blindsided by it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the risk that those guys chose to take and there\u2019s a lot of uncertainty in the air right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What next for LIV golf?<\/p>\n<p>Major winners DeChambeau, Rahm, Sergio Garcia and Cameron Smith are the biggest draws on the LIV Golf tour, which has been praised for taking golf to huge crowds in Australia and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>But the league has cost PIF more than $5bn in five seasons and there appears little prospect of it turning a profit soon.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm\u2019s route back could be via the DP World Tour \u2013 rather than the PGA Tour \u2013 and paid millions in fines earlier this month to ensure that he can be picked for next year\u2019s Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they do somehow get a schedule together for next year it looks like it\u2019s going to be drastically different,\u201d added McIlroy.<\/p>\n<p>The US PGA Championship is taking place at Aronimink Golf Club in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/liv-golf-hire-restructuring-experts-as-saudi-arabia-pif-ends-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LIV Golf hires restructuring experts as Saudi Arabia PIF ends funding<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tSimilarly tagged content: <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSections\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tCategories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPeople &amp; Organisations\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tRelated Topics\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday 12 May 2026 3:38 pm \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0 Tuesday 12 May 2026 3:39 pm Rory McIlroy says LIV Golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[84,43452,5904,11769,50,8693,18095,74776,2623,217,46654,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-582930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-business","tag-dp-world-tour","tag-golf","tag-liv-golf","tag-news","tag-pga-tour","tag-pif","tag-public-investment-fund","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-sport","tag-sport-business","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}