The ‘bizarre’ message one LIV Golf player sent ahead of the pro-am in Mexico City
Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images There was a time on Wednesday when the rumour mill was in full swing and it seemed that there was a doubt over whether LIV Golf Mexico City would even happen. There is a large question mark hanging over the future of LIV Golf. The Financial Times reported that the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia are planning to cut their funding to the league.
What definitely did not help was how quiet the LIV hierarchy appeared to be amid rumours of their potential demise. It seems that some of the players were just as confused about what came next as the rest of the world. One LIV Golf player was initially unable to get onto the course for the pro-am LIV did not help the situation by cancelling press conferences on Tuesday.
It was claimed that technical issues were to blame . But obviously, the theories got going once doubts over the league’s future emerged. And speaking on the Golf Channel Podcast , Rex Hoggard claimed that some players were not even able to get onto the golf course on Wednesday.
“It was a bizarre 48 hours. The best way to describe that was I was texting with a player who’s in Mexico City, a LIV Golf player, throughout the day yesterday, and this had been kind of building for 48 hours. We had all heard the rumours.
It was kind of coming to a head,” he said. Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images “And so as players showed up yesterday on Wednesday in Mexico City for their pro-am, in the span of 30 seconds, I got a text from a player that says, ‘the golf course is closed, we can’t get on the property for the pro-am’. And in the same 30 second span, our producer Andrew Bradley got a text from a caddie who was on the range getting ready for the pro-am.