What did LIV ever do for golf? A lot, actually

The Daily Telegraph · James Corrigan · 2026-11-06 14:19 UTC

Breakaway circuit may be gone, but it changed the sport forever – for good and for bad

Remember, remember the fifth of November. It was when LIV died and the plot to bring down the golf establishment was finally toppled.

Yes, barring the death throes of liquidation, LIV is no more and the hierarchy can sleep safe in their boardrooms once more.

Yet while the breakaway circuit is gone, it is certainly not forgotten. In its four-and-a-half-year existence, the LIV saga – as the Saudis ploughed in $6bn (£4.5bn) before suddenly walking away – touched every aspect of the professional male game and did so with such force that many of its integral elements are, and will remain, unrecognisable.

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