Bad news for PGA Tour as LIV Golf in ‘deep talks’ with American TV broadcasting giant

The LIV Golf is on the verge of signing a television broadcast deal with the American TV Broadcast giant Fox Sports. According to the Telegraph, the 2025 LIV Golf season is all set to begin next month, and the Saudi-backed league is on the brink of securing a deal with one of America's 'Big Four' networks.

The details of this deal remain sketchy, but according to Sports Business Journal, Fox will showcase LIV events on its channel while LIV will produce them, which will take a big expense off the network's plate.

This is bad news for the PGA Tour as they do not want prominent names like Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau, and others playing on their rival network.

The league spent the first three years without any broadcasting deals. Season one started by streaming the events live on YouTube and then its own website, where fans from across the world could live stream the events. For the second season, CW joined the league as an official broadcaster in the United States for two years, which concluded at the end of the 2024 season.

Last year, the breakaway league managed to rope in a few more prominent names like Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton. Previously, they already had Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Cameron Smith, and others. So, the broadcasters have started to show interest in broadcasting the event.

The current LIV CEO, Greg Norman, is reportedly moving upstairs, while Scott O'Neil is all set to be appointed as his replacement. So, with prominent business personality O'Neil joining the league and Fox forging an alliance, we could see LIV Golf evolving further in 2025.

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Who won the 2024 LIV Golf individual championship?

Golf: LIV Golf Orlando - First Round - Source: Imagn

The 2024 LIV Golf season concluded in September, with Jon Rahm winning the individual championship while Ripper GC won the Dallas Team Championship. The Spanish golfer joined the breakaway league earlier last year along with Tyrrell Hatton and created his own team, Legion XIII.

Rahm registered two wins in the season and finished the season-long individual championship with 235.17 points. Here are the rest of the standings:

• Jon Rahm - 235.17
• Joaquin Niemann - 219.20
• Sergio Garcia - 162.49
• Tyrrell Hatton - 161.49
• Brooks Koepka - 138.73
• Louis Oosthuizen - 129.10
• Cameron Smith - 127.66
• Bryson DeChambeau - 105.96
• Dean Burmester - 95.90
• Talor Gooch - 94.43
• Paul Casey - 94.16
• Abraham Ancer - 88.89
• Carlos Ortiz - 80.16
• Dustin Johnson - 76.31
• Marc Leishman - 74.34
• Anirban Lahiri - 71.75
• Adrian Meronk - 67.52
• Matthew Wolff - 63.83
• Richard Bland - 61.35
• Patrick Reed - 55.60
• Charl Schwartzel - 54.33
• Jason Kokrak - 52.58
• Sebastián Muñoz - 49.64
• Brendan Steele - 48.10
• Lucas Herbert - 47.35
• David Puig - 39.91
• Peter Uihlein - 38.10
• Cameron Tringale - 36.75
• Graeme McDowell - 36.03
• Thomas Pieters - 35.22