One of the Biggest Boondoggles in Sports History Is All but Dead. The Damage Is Real.

Sports The wreckage of LIV Golf will haunt the sport for years to come. By Alex Kirshner Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. Sign in or create an account to better manage your email preferences. Unsubscribe from email alerts Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from email alerts for Alex Kirshner? May 01, 20262:29 PM Tim Warner/Getty Images LIV Golf, as far as any normal person need be concerned, died on Thursday. The league still exists, even though it just canceled an upcoming event in New Orleans. But unless you are one of an apparently tiny number of fans, LIV Golf ceased to exist when the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia announced on Thursday that it was pulling its funding come the end of this season. Because if LIV Golf does not exist as a geopolitical influence project, LIV Golf has to exist as “a golf league,” and precious few people on the planet have ever watched a LIV Golf event. The league says it will look for new investors. Those investors would have to be on a powerful cocktail of drugs, because there is no capitalistic reason to want to be involved. The Saudis