LIV Golf has confirmed that its season-ending Team Championship has been scrapped, with this week’s event at The Club at Chatham Hill, Indianapolis to instead host the final event of the season.
The $40 million Team Championship in Michigan was scheduled to take place from August 27-30 at The Cardinal at Saint John’s in Detroit, however after weeks of speculation the breakaway league confirmed the news stating: “the League’s 2026 season finale will celebrate an Indianapolis Champion, the 2026 Season Individual Champion and top three finishers and the 2026 Team Champion at the LIV Golf Indianapolis 2026 Championships.”
Last week, The Telegraph reported that players had been informed the Team Championship event would not go ahead. A few days later, tickets for both general admission and hospitality passes disappeared from the official LIV Golf website and the admission of Tyrrell Hatton on the entry list for the DP World Tour’s British Masters, scheduled to take place on the same dates, provided further indication of an impending announcement.
The Team Championship event is the second event to be removed from LIV Golf’s schedule this season following the cancellation of the event in Louisiana in June, a move the league described as a “strategic decision.”
The news comes after LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil revealed earlier this month that a lead investor had “signed a term sheet approved by our board” that will support the league going forward beyond 2026 after Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced in April that it would pull funding at the end of the 2026 season having reportedly ploughed an estimated $5bn into the league since its inception in October 2021 including $247m this year.
O’Neil explained the decision in a statement, saying: “By concluding the season now, we can put our full resources behind what comes next and maintain the operational rigor this transition demands.
“We are reimagining LIV Golf as a fundamentally new League owned by the players and anchored in a sustainable business model, with an evolved fan experience built for the markets where the game is growing fastest across the globe and the support of world-class partners.
“Professional golf is more unified today than at any point since we launched, creating a genuine opportunity to grow the game together.
“Indianapolis will be a fitting finale for the League as fans have known it and the starting point for what we believe it can become.”
LIV Golf also added that “ticket holders for the Michigan event will receive refunds.”