Max Greyserman believes that potential investors are kidding themselves if they think that LIV Golf can prove to be a commercial success, as he spoke about what it would take for players to be welcomed back onto the PGA Tour.
The uncertainty over the future of LIV Golf remains.
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Although the players appear to be peddling the business as usual line ahead of this week’s event in New York, it is clear that many are keeping their options open.
The build-out for the Team Championship has not even begun, with The Athletic reporting that LIV do not plan to make a final decision this week on whether the season finale will even go ahead.
Max Greyserman makes a prediction about LIV Golf’s future
Of course, most are waiting to see whether LIV manages to secure the investment to keep the league afloat in 2027.
The New York Post reported that Scott O’Neil was on the verge of securing the $250 million he was looking for.
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However, that is clearly not going to be enough to convince some that LIV has a bright future ahead.
Max Greyserman reportedly received an eight-figure offer from LIV Golf ahead of the 2026 season.
While he was undecided when the reports emerged, the fact that he was being touted as a replacement for Ben Campbell on RangeGoats suggested that the talks did reach a reasonably advanced stage.
Greyserman will likely be incredibly relieved that he decided to stay with the PGA Tour. Speaking on the NUCLR Golf Podcast, Greyserman made a bleak prediction about LIV’s future.
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“Even if they do get funding, it’s going to be a shell of itself. It’ll be 10 events and it just won’t be LIV, as LIV as we know it is dead,” he said.
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“So even if they do get funding, I think the long term feasibility has proven that it’s not going to happen. Sure, maybe you have a 10 event series that people play in, and it makes a little bit of money.
“At the current time, they have no funding, but they might get funding. And part of the reason they might get funding is just because there’s so much money floating around in private equity that’s been geared toward sports. A lot of these funds have a lot of capital that they need to deploy. And so, they need to deploy that capital, and they might throw it at LIV Golf.
“It has nothing to do with the potential opportunity that LIV Golf has, I think, from a commercial perspective, I just think these funds just need to deploy capital from investors, and they’re just like, ‘oh, LIV’s right here. Maybe we’ll try this one’.
“I think you’re kidding yourself if you think LIV has commercial success in its future, because it’s been proven at this point.”
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What Max Greyserman thinks should happen with returning LIV Golf players
It is going to be a fascinating off-season whenever the 2026 campaign on LIV does come to an end.
Several players have reportedly expressed a desire behind the scenes to leave LIV whether the league manages to secure fresh funding or not.
But it is not clear what options those players will have when it comes to the tours they can join initially.
Brooks Koepka’s 2023 major championship win saw him presented with an immediate pathway back to the PGA Tour. And you would imagine that similar terms will be offered to the likes of Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau if they leave.
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But the red carpet is certainly not expected to be rolled out for the large majority of LIV players.
Speaking about the issue, Greyserman claimed that most PGA Tour players will want to see those returning from LIV told to work their way back to the highest level again.
“The only people who have status on the PGA Tour are if you’re a lifetime member, which is like two of them, or you’ve won a major in the last five years. Jon Rahm is one of them. For example, Cameron Smith, he won the British Open in ’22. So after ’27, his PGA Tour membership expires. So if he plays to the end of this year on LIV, and he takes his one year suspension, he has no status. He can’t even come back,” he said.
“So, all these guys are going to have to go to Q-School. That’s the only feasibility. Now a decent amount of these LIV guys might have DP World status, so then you’re talking maybe try and get those 10 cards that are available through the DP World Tour – which I think that might go down. I think you need to see that go down from 10 to maybe like one to five in the future – but that’d be good for the DP World Tour because they’ve been struggling, to get all those players to kind of play on that tour would be commercially really good for them.
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“I think guys would welcome them if they earn their way up through Q-School or through the DP World Tour, like Chacarra is, like Patrick Reed is. I don’t think guys are too upset. I think some guys on tour would be upset if they were just welcomed right back on the tour. But if you have to earn your way back, there’s respect in that. I think that’s what you’ll start to see.”
He added: “To be honest, on the PGA Tour, no one cares about LIV. It’s business as usual. With the changes to the tour, everyone’s been hyper-focused on the future of the PGA Tour. In the locker room, in the PT room, literally, no one’s talking about LIV.”
LIV Golf turned the game upside down when the league was formed in 2022. LIV revelled in causing chaos, and for some time, it appeared that the league could succeed in usurping the PGA Tour as the biggest stage in the game.
However, the league is now on life support after spending billions over the years. PGA Tour players are not afraid to write it off, and they are clearly not concerned about what is to come.
After initially being so loud they were impossible to ignore, it is the apathy towards LIV that is saying everything right now.
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