{"id":751806,"date":"2026-07-09T03:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/751806\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T03:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:50:18","slug":"liv-golf-sued-by-english-companies-claiming-concept-of-world-golf-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/751806\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf sued by English companies claiming concept of world golf league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIV Golf is in the midst of trying to raise <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/golf\/liv-250m-investment-new-media-rights-deal-survival.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as much as $300 million in funding<\/a> to continue operations once Saudi Arabia\u2019s public wealth fund removes the league\u2019s financing after this season concludes.<\/p>\n<p>That was already proving to be an uphill battle, as investors question the viability of a golf league predicated on massive purses, gargantuan guaranteed contracts to retain top golfers, and paltry television viewership. But it appears that hill might be getting a little steeper.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/story\/_\/id\/49299774\/companies-claiming-world-golf-league-concept-sue-liv-others\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a report by ESPN\u2019s Mark Schlabach<\/a>, LIV Golf is facing a lawsuit filed on behalf of two English companies, World Golf Group (WGG) and Premier Golf League (PGL), seeking between $210 million and $630 million in damages on account of \u201cbreach of confidence and unlawful means conspiracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gist of the lawsuit claims that two former WGG founders breached their fiduciary duty by helping the Saudis launch LIV Golf, which lifted a similar global format to what the WGG and PGL conceived of years prior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Defendants conspired together to use the Claimants\u2019 confidential information without the permission of the Claimants to launch the LIV Golf League,\u201d the lawsuit asserts.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the lawsuit claims that LIV Golf is a \u201cbald facsimile of the PGL,\u201d including its shotgun start format, 54-hole events, and a team aspect to the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Schlabach\u2019s report goes into great detail about the timeline of events, financing arrangements the WGG and PGL had with various entities, and early-stage collaboration between the entities and the Saudi PIF, which committed investment into the never-launched league.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit comes at a most precarious time for LIV. The league can ill afford a protracted lawsuit or expensive settlement as it looks to secure hundreds of millions in funding just to stay afloat. If this case has legs, it has the potential to be a death knell for the rogue golf league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV Golf is in the midst of trying to raise as much as $300 million in funding to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,10658,99],"class_list":["post-751806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-liv-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}