LIV Golf lawyers admit tour generated ‘virtually zero’ revenue in first season

Lawyers make admission in US federal court documents

LOW REVENUE: Phil Mickelson plays on the 18th during the Pro-Am at the Centurion Club, Hertfordshire. Pic: Steven Paston/PA Wire.

The LIV Golf tour, the breakaway circuit bankrolled by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, generated “virtually zero” revenue during its first season, its lawyers admitted in US federal court documents filed on Monday.

Attorneys for the rebel tour made the admission in a motion with the US district court for Northern California, in which LIV Golf asked US district court judge Beth Labson Freeman to deny the PGA Tour’s motion for leave to add the Public Investment Fund (PIF) and its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, as plaintiffs in the tour’s countersuit against LIV Golf.