“Was Always Going to Be Hard”: Rory McIlroy and Other PGA Tour Pros React to LIV Golf’s Shutdown

The loudest league in golf is leaving with a calculator instead of a curtain call. LIV Golf spent five years selling spectacle, but the players who watched it most closely treat its end as a math problem that never balanced. LIV’s attorney confirmed in a New Jersey bankruptcy hearing on Thursday that the league will wind down after more than $5 billion in spending. “It was always going to be very hard for them to get enough players to sign up for what they were proposing, which was smaller prize money, no upfront payments,” he said.