After five seasons, 62 tournaments and more than $5 billion in spending, LIV Golf is no more. The upstart league has changed the game in numerous ways, but perhaps most markedly, LIV’s influence has normalized the idea of super-sized purses in professional golf, with the PGA Tour now regularly offering $20 million in its Signature Events, and major championships. almost doubling its scholarship offerings by 2021 to keep pace.
How did it all begin – and end? Below, you can follow a timeline of 17 crucial events that shaped the history of LIV Golf.
OCTOBER 2021
Greg Norman announces that has accepted the position of CEO for LIV Golf Investmentsof which the majority stakeholder is the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.
MARCH 2022
LIV Golf officially announced a list of eight 2022 eventsstarting in London on June 9 at the Centurion Club. Prize money for the entire series is set at a whopping $225 million.
MAY 2022
Dustin Johnson signs with LIV for a reported $125 million. He is joined by Talor Gooch and European legends Sergio García, Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Martin Kaymer.
JUNE 2022
Phil Mickelson signs multi-year contract with LIV ahead of first league tournament. On site, additional recruits are revealed: Patrick Reed, Bryson DeChambeau and Pat Perez. Weeks later, after the US Open, Brooks Koepka also joins, along with Carlos Ortiz and Matthew Wolff.
AUGUST 2022
Reign Players and Open Champion – and then the No. 2 player in the world – Cameron Smith joins LIV Golfalong with a few others: Marc Leishman, Joaquin Niemann, Harold Varner III, Anirban Lahiri and Cameron Tringale.
MARCH 2023
Brooks Koepka wins the 2023 PGA Championship for his fifth career major title, becoming the first active LIV player to win a major championship.
JUNE 2023
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and Public Investment Fund Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan signed a five-page “framework agreement”, effectively ending the litigation and announcing the intention to form a new mutually beneficial entity. (Spoiler alert: the framework agreement never officially materialized.)
DECEMBER 2023
Jon Rahm signs with LIV.
MARCH 2024
Anthony Kim returns from a 12-year hiatus from pro golf to compete in LIV.
JUNE 2024
Bryson DeChambeau wins the US Open to become the second active LIV player to win a major championship.
January 2025
Scott O’Neil replaces Greg Norman as CEO of LIV Golf.
January 2026
Brooks Koepka is leaving LIV to return to the PGA Tour as part of the “PGA Tour Returning Member Program.” Patrick Reed is also leaving LIV, but is playing on the DP World Tour while he waits for his PGA Tour suspension to be lifted at the end of August.
APRIL 2026
PIF announces it will stop funding LIV after the 2026 season. LIV postpones an event in Louisiana scheduled for June.
AUGUST 2026
LIV is officially canceling their tag team championship event in Michigan. The league stages its final two tournaments of the year in New Jersey and Indianapolis.
SEPTEMBER 2026
LIV files for bankruptcy and enters into restructuring agreement with BC investor partners.
OCTOBER 2026
DP World Tour bans players from their tournaments if they sign with “LIV 2.0”. LIV players Louis Oosthuizen, Thomas Pieters, Charles Howell III, David Puig, Abraham Ancer and Jon Rahm announced that they will not play in LIV in its future iteration.
