Dan Wetzel Apr 16, 2026, 03:30 PM ET Close Dan Wetzel is a senior writer focused on investigative reporting, news analysis and feature storytelling. There doesn't appear to be much life left in LIV, which, even in the early days of its unlimited cash and immeasurable bluster, seemed inevitable. LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil emailed his staff Wednesday that the 2026 season will continue "as planned, uninterrupted and at full throttle. " That includes this weekend's event in Mexico. He didn't address all the media reports that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is going to pull funding after dropping about $5 billion in five years on the oil-pipeline-funded pipe dream that it could create the world's preeminent professional golf tour. Whoever first sold the PIF on this idea, sold it a bill of goods. A lot of people got rich off it, golfers mainly, both in huge LIV salaries and eventual PGA Tour reforms. The gravy train was likely always going to end though.…