Al-Rumayyan co-founded LIV in 2021 and has been the tour’s strongest determine.
This week LIV postponed its June occasion in New Orleans, which means it won’t have any tournaments within the US between 10 Could till 6 August, when it goes to Trump Bedminster in New Jersey.
BBC Sport has been advised LIV stays hopeful of remaining a world tour with a crew mannequin, and that it’s in “constructive” talks with potential traders.
Sources indicated that executives are exploring quite a lot of alternatives to “reposition” the enterprise. They mentioned LIV Golf was on the right track to earn $100m (£86m) extra in 2026 than final season.
However officers settle for it’s doubtless the sequence must be considerably scaled again, with far fewer occasions.
Staff captains have been warned that the corporate will reveal plans to seek out new monetary backers on Thursday.
LIV declined to remark.
This month LIV Golf chief government Scott O’Neil advised gamers the 2026 season would proceed “as deliberate and uninterrupted” amid rumours the tour was on the breaking point, though he didn’t deal with what would possibly lie forward.
It got here as PIF introduced a brand new technique, with a concentrate on extra sustainable investments.
The LIV venture, which pivoted to a extra conventional 72-hole format this 12 months, has been bankrolled by an eye-watering amount of cash from PIF.
The general funding surpassed $5bn (£3.8bn) when recent capital of $267m (£229m) was injected this 12 months.
The tour’s web losses in markets outdoors the US elevated to $462m (£340m) in 2024, which means it had misplaced greater than $1.1bn (£810m) because it was established in 2021.
With huge quantities of cash pumped into the US arm of the operation, losses look prone to run to a number of billion {dollars}.
PIF has been approached for remark.
