LIV Golf Circling The Toilet From Whence It Sprung
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LIV Golf's honchos, the poor suckers, are still out there scrambling around, looking for investors to keep their dipshit tour afloat after the Saudi Public Investment Fund suddenly https://defector.com/saudi-arabia-pulls-money-liv-golf">booted them into the wilderness back in April.
Now that LIV Golf has lost its utility as a sportswashing spectacle and as a wedge for market disruption, it is left with zero authentic value whatsoever.
Nobody was clamoring for more golf, for golf with stupid team names, or for https://defector.com/a-perplexing-afternoon-at-the-saudi-funded-golf-tournament-in-trumps-backyard">much noisier golf.
A formerly endlessly resourced and attention-bloated LIV Golf couldn't bring the PGA Tour to its knees and thus force a merger, and now it is left to make an argument for itself, an argument that became comical the moment the tour was declared a dud by the most brazen and profligate entity in world sports.
If the ROI on LIV is too lousy for the PIF, buddy, they are simply FUBAR, and possibly SOL.
Things are spiraling.
LIV Golf was recently sued by one of its vendors, a Canadian technology company called Mobii Systems Group (the full complaint can be read at the bottom of this post).
Mobii and LIV Golf signed a contract in January 2025 for the former to provide "integrated broadcast technology, streaming services, platform licenses, and related support services at all LIV Golf events in 2025 and 2026." In the complaint, filed July 17 in Florida, Mobii says that LIV Golf has been falling behind on invoices for services rendered, to the tune of approximately $925,000, and in late May attempted to squirrel out from under the remainder of the deal, covering the last handful of 2026 events.
The complaint says that Mobii's "infrastructure, personnel, platform licenses, and cloud services" were built, tuned, and sized for the LIV Golf engagement, and that they are thus eating a huge loss of revenue, offset basically not at all by the sudden unexpected opening of their schedule.
That plus the huge bill for unpaid invoices, says the complaint, adds up to over $1 million in damages.
There is at least one grimly funny highlight from the mass of exhibits attached to Mobii's complaint: In a letter from May sent to LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil, Mobii CEO Greg Schultz describes getting a runaround from LIV's accounting department that will be familiar to anyone who has ever accidentally fielded a phone call from someone to whom they owe money: