Greg Norman says he hopes LIV ends as uncertainty surround the league’s future, player anger at LIV Golf Indianapolis, Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm future, what will LIV 2.0 look like?, latest news

LIV Golf as we know it is over.

But the breakaway league’s founding chief executive and Australian golf icon Greg Norman hopes it is done for good.

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“I’m sad, disappointed, gutted to be honest,” Norman told Skratch’s Alan Shipnuck.

“I hate to see it wither away. I would rather just see it end.”

LIV’s tumultuous 2026 came to an end on Monday morning Australian time with former US college prodigy Michael La Sasso edging out former world No.1 Jon Rahm by a shot in Indianapolis.

Rahm’s team Legion XIII were crowned the team champions for the year but has been the case for most of LIV’s existence, the spotlight was shining on what was happening off the golf course.

LIV Indianapolis was not supposed to be the final event of the season, but with the league drowning in financial issues it cancelled its Team Championship that was due to take place in Michigan this week.

LIV’s New Orleans event earlier in the year was also axed, but the players were baffled by their season finale being chopped.

“I’ve got a question: Is it just whoever wins the team championship gets the ring, and we just get an Instagram post? That’s it?” Belgium’s Thomas Pieters asked during a press conference on Saturday.

From all reports, anyone who was on the ground at The Club at Chatham Hills was struck in the face by the financial angst that clouds the league.

Journalists and fans alike surrounding the practice putting green to catch a glimpse of some of the sport’s biggest names before they were whisked away in golf carts to their starting tee – due to LIV’s shotgun start – overheard players openly talking about missed payments.

Tension was high on the course too with two-time Masters winner Bubba Watson shouted at a fan who yelled out during playing partner Lee Westwood’s pre-shout routine.

“Oh, you don’t want to say anything now? Say something, I’m looking at you, say it,” Watson demanded.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, LIV’s employees shared major concerns about their future.

LIV’s hierarchy, led by Norman’s successor former CEO of the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers Scott O’Neil, have been sprouting ‘LIV 2.0’ – a new version of the disrupter circuit without the funding of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

O’Neil recently announced that they have secured the US$250-300 million they were chasing from a mystery investor – reported by the Times to be a UK-based investment company.

But like ‘The Shark’, not everyone is on board with the new vision.

Rahm and Legion XIII teammates made that clear.

Some of the most memorable scenes since LIV emerged in 2022 have come from their party holes.

LIV Adelaide’s party hole has gone viral all four years that the tournament has been staged.

But this week the crowded par 3 was not a site of celebration.

Rahm’s Ryder Cup and LIV teammate Tyrell Hatton took the chance to make a statement with his walk-up song.

As the Englishman stepped up to the tee, Queen’s “I Want To Break Free” belted out of the speakers.

While teammate Tom McKibbin, who emerged from the same Belfast golf club as Rory McIlroy, Hollywood Golf Club, took a similar approach as he chose “Breaking Free” from the Disney movie High School Musical.

The 23-year-old made it clear that he regrets ignoring McIlroy’s advice and joining LIV early last year as the league targeted a wave of up-and-coming talent.

Legion XIII’s feelings were also made known on the winner’s podium.

The players could hardly have appeared less enthused as they were presented their trophies and doused in champagne while a plan flew overhead with a Legion XIII banner hanging from it.

They then pulled no punches in their interviews.

Rahm, who according to Monday Q Info on X is reportedly still owed around half of the US$300 million multi-year contract he signed with LIV in late 2023, dodged questions about his future with the league.

“I’m mainly looking forward to a haircut tomorrow morning at 10am because I need one badly,” Rahm joked.

The two-time major champion added: “I’m looking forward to going home and helping my very pregnant wife with the kids because it’s a 3-v-1 right now. It’s probably a 4-v-1 with the one that’s due in October.

“Happy to be dad for a few days before I get back for the Irish Open.”

While Hatton was rushing out the door and eager to slam it behind him.

“Yeah, well, I think anytime you win is great,” he said.

“I just want to get to the airport because I have a flight to catch, so that would be great.”

Not everyone is so disgruntled, however.

In fact, the league’s biggest star has relished the opportunity to play attack dog.

Bryson DeChambeau’s future has been a talking point throughout the year, but the two-time US Open champion appears up for the fight for LIV’s survival.

DeChambeau has close ties to US President Donald Trump and borrowed a move straight from Trump’s playbook when he saw a group of reporters congregated at the driving range of a practice day in Indianapolis.

“The mafia! The mafia is here. You guys love talking s***,” Dechambeau is reported to have said to the media pack.

The 32-year-old carried on his anti-media crusade during proper interviews too, saying he wishes people could “be open-minded” towards LIV’s survival efforts.

“It’s tough. It’s not easy. We definitely have a lot against us,” DeChambeau said.

“I hope people can see that we actually bring value to the game of golf. My wish is that people give us one more shot and be open-minded.

“If it works, it works; awesome. If it doesn’t, we’ll figure things out.”

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They were not the only eyebrow raising comments DeChambeau made in the past week.

In an interview after the final round, he teased in saying: “I think there’s something fun coming.”

“There’s a lot of potential moving forward,” he added.

“It’s been an interesting ride, that’s for sure, just as much as I have. Everything that we’ve gone through and the tough moments that we’ve had, they have made us stronger as much as we’re transitioning from LIV 1.0 to 2.0.”

But then took to Instagram to post a collection of his winning photos from LIV events with the caption: “It was a good run.”

While DeChambeau is perhaps hedging his bets, Cameron Smith and his Ripper GC teammates certainly want LIV to carry on.

Senior figures in Australian golf are confident LIV Adelaide will go ahead as planned next year with tickets on sale for the March tournament at Kooyonga despite the uncertainty.

“I want it to work, really, to be honest,” Smith said earlier this month.

“It’s great fun out here. The team that we’ve got, I feel like we make each other better, better people and better golfers as well.

“I’d hate to see it go away. We’ll see what happens.”

He added: “What we’ve been able to do for golf in Australia is really quite important to me.

“It would be a shame for all that to go away.”

“I think (LIV) improves Australian golf.

“I think all the numbers are up. Memberships are up. Social play is up. I think that’s in part because of us.”

LIV’s South Africa event earlier this year was also a smash hit with golf fans starved of seeing top level talent in the flesh.

So, like Adelaide, the all-South African team, the Southern Guards, do not want to lose their Johannesburg tournament.

“It’s not just about golf; I think golf is just a part of life,” Dean Burmester said.

“All of this is way bigger than life, and it’s probably above my pay grade. The proposed LIV 2.0, whatever you want to call it, I think it’s very, very promising and it looks great. I think the model is certainly sustainable.”

While the exact details of the LIV 2.0 proposal are unclear, multiple reports have suggested the new-look league will be shrunk to ten events – five in the United States and five international.

Players are also set to have equity and ownership of their teams along with commercial rights.

But prize purses will be greatly reduced, and LIV will look to work alongside the existing tours rather than against them.

“Golf certainly doesn’t need another five years of fighting,” O’Neil said.

“Golf doesn’t need one tour to win and everyone else to lose. We shouldn’t live in a world where one group of golfers is uniquely restricted from playing elsewhere. Our goal isn’t to replace or restrict any tour.”

The other tours may not have got that memo, however.

Reports emerged on Tuesday morning that the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour to form a global series of events, which could begin as soon as 2028.

The plan is for the PGA Tour to come on board with existing DP World Tour events across Europe, Asia, Africa the Middle East and Australia that fall outside of the PGA Tour season – which will run from February to March.

It would seek to elevate those events, and the PGA Tour has already made progress on such initiatives by locking in a deal with the Australian Open to boost its prize purse and help attract more superstars from next year.

LIV had originally approached Golf Australia and other governing bodies around the world about partnering with national opens.

But the existing tours have won that battle.

The DP World Tour has allowed LIV golfers to hold dual membership and is set to allow them to scratch their itch to play in their home countries and around the world.

One of the original players to jump ship to LIV, Englishman Ian Poulter, told reporters in Indianapolis that he and his colleagues face a big decision.

“It would be a real shame if LIV 2.0 doesn’t happen,” he said.

“There are players who would love a strong global platform to play on and countries and fans who want us back. Some players will stay; some may go. As for me, I may stay or take some time off. I genuinely haven’t decided yet.”

What is clear is that LIV will not be what it once was.

The brash attitude of those who took on the existing tours when the fight was young is well and truly gone.

Now, they are left looking back on their fond memories of packed galleries in Adelaide and Johannesburg.

Or of the massive parties they threw in every city they went to.

And of the bucket loads of cash, they made.

But ultimately, that original mission of shaking up the world of golf – of taking down the PGA Tour – has failed.

There have been successes, none greater than taking major champions and household names to golf-loving communities around the world who have long been neglected by the powers at be in America.

But ‘LIV 2.0’ will look nothing like what Norman envisioned when he finally found the financier for his long-held dream of a global tour that rejects the establishment.

“We were a family,” Norman said in his interview with Skratch.

“We were united by the feeling that we were doing something new and exciting for the game of golf.

“It took an unbelievable amount of effort, and there were constant headwinds, but we did it because we believed in the vision.”