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LIV Golf is winding down operations, lawyer says in bankruptcy hearing
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LIV Golf is winding down operations, lawyer says in bankruptcy hearing

The Seattle Times The Seattle Times·The Associated Press·5 days ago
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — LIV Golf is shuttering after five years that fractured the sport’s landscape, announcing Thursday in bankruptcy court it plans to wind down operations instead of launching a new version because it didn’t have enough support.

“The debtors are not currently proceeding with the LIV 2.0 plan,” attorney Matthew Williams of Gibson Dunn said in a hearing in New Jersey. “Instead, the debtors are toggling to a value-maximizing wind-down in their business.”

LIV Golf, which launched in June 2022 by offering nine-figure signing bonuses to lure top names away from the PGA Tour, lost Saudi Arabia funding in April after spending more than $5 billion.

It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sept.…

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