Saudi funding for LIV Golf reportedly dries up, chairman steps down

The league that now offers $30 million in prize money at each event already is trying to chart a course for staying solvent after this year.

Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund who was behind the creation of LIV Golf, is resigning as LIV chairman as the league seeks a new strategy without Saudi funding, according to a report published Wednesday night.

Sports Business Journal cited three people briefed on the resignation. LIV Golf was planning to announce Thursday a strategy for moving forward without its primary financial backer, including a new board

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