The LIV Golf season finale worth $US40 million ($A57 million) in prize money is set to be cancelled, 7NEWS reporter Tom Morris has revealed.
The Michigan event to crown a teams champion was due to take place from August 30.
But it is now on the scrapheap, spelling danger for the embattled league’s bid to secure funding to continue in 2027 and beyond.
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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund announced earlier this year it would pull the financial plug at the end of the 2026 season.
LIV Golf’s 2026 calendar was already reduced once earlier this year when its US$30m ($A42.8m) Louisana event, due to take place in last month, was postponed.
That decision created a significant gap between last month’s event in Spain and this weekend’s return to action in England, with New York (August 9) and Indianapolis (August 23) still to come.
Two-time major champion Martin Kaymer, captain of LIV’s Cleeks team, had revealed overnight the US$30m ($A42.8m) Indianapolis event is “most likely happening” but Michigan, as “we already knew”, was “highly unlikely”.
He could not confirm Golf Channel reports that Indianapolis would be reworked into a team event in place of Michigan.
“I think that would be a shame that we get reduced even more individual tournaments,” Kaymer told Today’s Golfer.
“On the other hand, how do you want to have a team winning the whole season if you don’t have a team event? We need to be honest.
“The whole season was a bit of a… there was so much happening. Yeah. Cancelled New Orleans. Cancelled most likely the last event. So I think it’s important to just finish the season and hopefully we’ll have a plan for 2027.”
Kaymer said LIV Golf chief executive Scott O’Neil has remained confident in securing hundreds of millions of dollars from investors to keep the league going.
Meanwhile, LIV Golf suffered another setback this week when the PGA Tour, European tour and Asian Tour penned a new global alliance until at least 2029.
The Asian Tour has had a relationship with LIV Golf since the rival Saudi Arabia-backed tour launched in 2022. LIV Golf invested millions in the Asian Tour and created the International Series with up to $US2m ($A2.8m) in prize money.
Before that, the DP World Tour had an alliance with the Asian Tour and co-sanctioned events from 2016-21. The new relationship — effective immediately — is expected to feature at least two co-sanctioned Asian Tour events in each of the next three years.
Rory McIlroy celebrated the news.
“Positive news and great to see the respective tours working together for the good of international golf,” McIlroy wrote.
