LIV remains mum on Michigan event status

LIV Golf’s season-ending team championship at Michigan remains on the schedule for this month despite multiple reports that it will be cancelled, Front Office Sports reports.

No update on the status of the event is expected to come from LIV this week, according to the Front Office Sports report.

The US$40mil event, with US$11.2mil going to the winning team, is scheduled for Aug 27 to 30 at the Cardinal at Saint John’s Resort in Plymouth, Michigan, a Detroit suburb.

However, the Cardinal, which hosted the 2025 LIV team championship, has no tournament infrastructure or fan hospitality built out yet, according to Front Office Sports.

It would be the second tournament removed from the 2026 schedule since Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund announced in April that it will stop funding the league at the end of this season.

LIV New Orleans originally was set for June 25 to 28 before it was announced that it would be postponed.

If the Michigan tournament is cancelled, there will be only two individual stroke play tournaments left on the LIV Golf calendar: LIV Golf New York from Aug 6 to 9 at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and LIV Golf Indianapolis from Aug 20 to 23 at the Club at Chatham Hills in Westfield, Indianapolis.

That assumes the New Orleans event would not be rescheduled.

Under the circumstances, the Indianapolis tournament could be used to determine the team champion, Front Office Sports reported. LIV Golf declined to comment.

The league is searching for new investors for an adjusted business model, called “LIV 2.0.” The deadline for finalising a 2027 plan is believed to be Sept 1.

LIV’s last tournament since early June was last week’s LIV Golf United Kingdom.