What has long been rumored has now been reported as reality: LIV Golf’s team championship in Michigan has been canceled.

The season finale, which was scheduled for the end of August in Michigan, was already believed to be on the chopping block as early as July. Various reports suggested no on-site buildout at The Cardinal at Saint John’s, even as recently as this weekend. And now LIV is moving on, according to a report from The Telegraph, which said the league finally told its players it would not be held.

In recent weeks, most LIV players had little to say about the event, although Martin Kaymer told Today’s Golfer in late July that the team championship had about a 5% chance of happening. Now that reality finally arrived. Staffers were told to book travel home from next week’s event in Indianapolis rather than to Michigan, just a few hours up the road. And despite the dark clouds over its team championship, LIV itself has refused to announce it publicly. (When contacted by GOLF, the league declined to comment.) The event is scheduled to begin in two weeks.

The final LIV event of the season is now set for the greater Indianapolis area and will likely fold-in elements to finalize the season-long team competition with it. LIV Indy was a rambunctious scene just 12 months ago, setting record-breaking attendance figures in the U.S. But in 2026, it will be the 12th and final event of what was scheduled to be a 14-event season. LIV’s New Orleans tournament, originally scheduled for June, was postponed and not rescheduled. The multi-million arrangement between the league and Louisiana saw LIV receive $1.2 million from the state. As of late July, that amount had not been repaid.

This all comes amid a rollercoaster time for the league. In late April, it was confirmed that the Saudi Public Investment Fund would be pulling its funding at the end of the season. LIV executives have scrambled to create a plan they’re calling “LIV 2.0”, which would feature a trimmed down schedule —10 events instead of 14 — with “Team Majors” and half of its schedule located abroad.

Importantly, the purse sizes for LIV 2.0 are expected to decrease by a significant margin. The league, which once pulled in talent via hundred-million-dollar contracts, could see its $30 million purses from 2026 shrink to half of that for 2027.

The runway for LIV remains incredibly murky. Last week, CEO Scott O’Neil held a press conference from the league’s New Jersey event, sharing that LIV had come to an agreement with a “lead investor” that would help the league sustain its business into next year. According to various reports, that investor is BC Partners’ credit division, and the investment is not for equity of the league, but is rather a lending mechanism. When asked for comment, BC Partners declined, but the head of its credit team, Ted Goldthorpe, was on-site at the LIV event Sunday, meeting with LIV’s previous boss Yasir Al-Rumayyan and walking inside the ropes with O’Neil. 

The agreement, to this point, is simply a signed term sheet — in essence, an agreement to try and come to an agreement. Various reports marked a finalized agreement contingent upon LIV’s biggest names returning to the league for 2027. The hope internally is that a definitive agreement would be settled sometime in September. 

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