{"id":486415,"date":"2026-02-23T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/486415\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:12:08","slug":"liv-golf-bleeds-100-million-a-month-saudis-double-down-with-more-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/486415\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf Bleeds $100 Million a Month \u2014 Saudis Double Down With More Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So. Much. Money.<\/p>\n<p>PublishedFebruary 23, 2026 1:45 PM EST\u2022UpdatedFebruary 23, 2026 1:29 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>FacebookTwitterEmailCopy Link<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">LIV Golf is funded by the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF). Seeing as how it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to operate a golf tour and pay the players that make the tour what it is, the Saudis have had to inject a truly obscene amount of cash into LIV, but when you see the actual dollar figure that has been spent, it puts things in an even more unbelievable perspective.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/moneyinsport.substack.com\/p\/pif-approves-267-million-of-fresh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Money In Sport<\/a>, the net spending by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/liv-golf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LIV Golf<\/a> averaged $100 million in 2024 and 2025; not by year or by quarter, but by month. Those net spending funds were financed by the Saudi PIF via regular capital injections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">This 2026 LIV Golf season marks the league&#8217;s fifth, and according to the report, Saudi PIF Governor Yasir Al Rumayyan approved a fresh $266.6 million capital injection into the circuit on February 1. This brings the Saudi PIF cumulative investment in LIV Golf to $5.3 billion going back to 2021.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-1401719083.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Yasir Al-Rumayyan alongside LIV Golf player Phil Mickelson. (Photo by John Phillips\/LIV Golf\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Maybe the most stunning fact about the recently injected $266 million is that it&#8217;s actually a fraction of what the Saudi PIF has pumped into LIV Golf over the years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">2021: $1.2 billion<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">2022: $1.3 billion<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">2023: $200 million<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">2024: $1.2 billion<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">2025: $1.1 billion<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">2026: $266 million (thus far)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">It&#8217;s important to note that the LIV Golf prize fund has seen a significant increase in 2026 compared to 2025 \u2014 $65 million to be precise \u2014 meaning that the $266 million injection of cash approved in February won&#8217;t be the only one this year, simply because it can&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">If LIV Golf continues to have a net spend of $100 million per month, which all signs point to being the case, the Saudi PIF&#8217;s cumulative investment will blow past $6 billion by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Spending $6 billion on a golf tour between 2021-2026 seems like a lot of money (because it is), but when the Saudi PIF holds a net worth of approximately $1.2 trillion, spending a few billion dollars in the golf space doesn&#8217;t sting quite as hard as one may imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So. Much. Money. 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