With a “bombshell announcement” reportedly coming about , Golf Channel analyst and former PGA Tour pro Brandel Chamblee believes the rival tour is coming to an end.
reporter Ryan French said during an X Spaces broadcast that he has “some pretty good sources” that told him “LIV is shutting down,” according to the FlushingItGolf account that was listening.
“Ive got everything from, and these are people that I trust, that you guys know,” French said, per the account. “Players didnt get paid today, power went out because the bill wasnt paid, employees didnt get paid. Stuff like that.”
Telegraph Sport reported Wednesday that LIV Golf executives have been called into an emergency meeting in New York amid speculation about the league’s future.
Chamblee, who has been one of LIV Golfs biggest critics since its inception, backed Frenchs report, believing the tour will crumble.
“Given that the product was so ill-conceived and ended up being worse than anyone could have imagined â with shotgun starts, initially 54 holes, a team concept that was nothing but laughable and tournaments that meant and continue to mean nothing, and such a paltry number of viewers, losing billions along the way â would it surprise anyone if the Saudis came to their corrupted senses and finally euthanized the whole lame-brained tour,” Chamblee wrote on X in response to the reports.
The days of a potential merger between LIV Golf and the seem to be a pipe dream now, especially as LIV stars like Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed came back to their old roots.
In fact, Koepka is a part of a new Returning Member Program, which allows LIV golfers who won a major or Players Championship since 2022, to return to the PGA Tour under specific conditions and financial penalties.
And while they havent done so, , Jon Rahm and Cam Smith are all eligible for Koepkas program. Reed isnt in the program, though he is working through a suspension period, where he plans on returning to the Tour as a non-member in August 2026 before hopefully regaining full status in 2027.
Meanwhile, LIV Golf is set to tee off at its this week, and they still have nine events scheduled for the rest of the 2026 schedule.
But, as French said on X Spaces, “Things are not good.”
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