It was a dramatic call from one of Yasir Al-Rumayyan’s lieutenants that may have ended LIV Golf as it’s known now, golf writer Alan Shipnuck alleged in a lengthy piece published this week after the rebel golf league’s final event of the 2026 season. 

As part of the article, published by Skratch, Shipnuck reported that LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil received a phone call from Al-Rumayyan’s people the week that the Saudi Public Investment Fund announced a new five-year plan, which did not include funding the league. 

“Shut it down. You’re not getting another dollar,” Yasir Al-Rumayyan’s lieutenant reportedly told O’Neil. 

The report also indicated that Al-Rumayyan did not talk with O’Neil directly for more than two months.

Now that the league wrapped up its final event of 2026, the questions about LIV’s future will be the main focus surrounding it as its players decide on what their own future will look like. 

O’Neil announced during the LIV event at Trump National Bedminster earlier this month that the league had secured funding – reportedly a signed term sheet with BC Capital – but few details have been announced.

Players on the LIV tour have also given varying degrees of commitment to remain with the rebel golf league. 

As of now, the PGA Tour does not have any plans for “Returning Member Program like you saw earlier this year,” which had allowed Brooks Koepka to return to the PGA Tour after he left LIV Golf, PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp said on Tuesday in Atlanta. 

Rolapp isn’t shutting down the idea of LIV players returning, but was matter-of-fact that it would need to be earned and they needed to be free of their contracts with the rival league. 

“We haven’t made any decisions. I’ve said it consistently; I only know what I read. I don’t know the future of LIV. It sounds like they’re working really hard to come up with the next iteration of it,” Rolapp said. “We’ve been consistent. Anyone who’s interested in coming to the PGA Tour needs to demonstrate that they are relieved of their contractual commitments or any tail obligations they might have in that legacy model. Brooks certainly did that, and until then, we weren’t really able to consider anything seriously. I would say the same thing here.

“I think it’s unclear what we’re reacting to, but any player who is here needs to demonstrate that they’re completely free of any tail obligation for some time.”