Robert Craddock

plus Robert Craddock on the future of live golf.

The single tweet from a part-time golf writer saying lives in serious strife, they're having big meetings this afternoon, and he was spot on.

And look, it looks gone, Gerard, at the end of this season.

I mean, Scott O'Neill, their chief executive, spoke to reporters at the Masters at Augusta only a week ago under a tree near the 18th and said, we've got funding until 2032.

Four days later, he was saying, we've got funding through to the end of 2026.

So no promises it's going to go on.

So it looks as if the Saudi Arabia Investment Fund has decided it will cancel all vanity projects.

They're not going to get – it did open a few doors for them, but it closed many more.

They're not going to seize control of World Golf.

As Ian Baker-Finch says, and he's a very wise man, there will be no merger with the PGA Tour.

So I can't say categorically it's finished, but it looks on life support, live on life support.

Well, it was.

And here's the thing.

I think he's one of the reasons behind the collapse of the whole show, and I'll tell you why.

I keep hearing that when he went back to live a few months ago and said that he would re-sign as their key drawcard for $500 million,

That sort of made them just shake their heads and think, you know what?

We can't move the doll on television, even with him.

Like 500 million should be what you pay to Rory McIlroy, who will bring half the world with him, but not for a guy you've already got and you're failing.

So I think that singular claim is responsible as anything else that's happened for the demise of Liv.

It's Gerard Waitley.