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57 golfers hit hard by imminent LIV collapse including Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau

Reach Daily Express | April 30, 2026 7:39 PM CST

The LIV Golf league is set to lose its multi-billion-dollar backing from Saudi Arabia, with over 50 stars impacted. Reports from the Wall Street Journal claim that a "new strategic plan" is set to be announced today to find new investors.

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) plan to withdraw their funding for the league at the end of the season. LIV Golf chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan is also expected to step down from his position. As a result, the future of the tour has been thrown up in the air with a number of top golfers affected by the news.

Bryson DeChambeau was one of the first stars to turn his back on the PGA Tour for the financial allure of LIV, with Phil Mickelson joining his fellow American in heading to the breakaway league. Jon Rahm was eventually persuaded to join LIV, but now these three stars will face a period of uncertainty in their careers.

That is despte LIV Golf chief executive Scott O'Neil saying earlier this month that the tour was fully funded through to the end of the season.

"It's just not the way the world works. We have commitments to have this being a going concern.

"The reality is, you're funded through the season, and then you work like crazy as a business to create a business and a business plan to keep us going.

"But that's not different from any other private equity-funded business in the history of mankind."

Here, Express Sport lists all the golfers affected by the withdrawal of funding.

All the LIV Golf stars affected by PIF's withdrawal of funding

Bryson DeChambeau (Captain)
Phil Mickelson (C)
Jon Rahm (C)

Dustin Johnson (C)
Martin Kaymer (C)
Sergio Garcia (C)
Byeong-hun An (C)
Lee Westwood (C)
Ian Poulter (C)
Bubba Watson (C)
Cameron Smith (C)
Talor Gooch (C)
Louis Oosthuizen (C)
Joaquin Niemann (C)
Patrick Reed
Thomas Pieters
Thomas Detry
Richard Bland
Adrian Meronk
Victor Perez
Paul Casey

Charles Howell III
Anirban Lahiri
Tyrrell Hatton
Josele Ballester
David Puig
Luis Masaveu
Cameron Tringale
Brendan Steele
Michael La Sasso
Danny Lee
Min-kyu Kim
Young-han Song
Caleb Surratt
Tom McKibbin
Sam Horsfield

Laurie Canter
Peter Uihlein
Matt Wolff
Ben Campbell
Marc Leishman
Lucas Herbert
Elvis Smylie
Jason Kokrak
Graeme McDowell
Harold Varner III
Charl Schwartzel
Dean Burmester
Branden Grace
Carlos Ortiz
Sebastian Munoz
Abraham Ancer
Scott Vincent
Yosuke Asaji
Richard T Lee
Bjorn Hellgren
Anthony Kim