LIV players have mixed feelings after meeting proposed investor - ESPN

WESTFIELD, Ind. — At 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, every member of the LIV Golf League sauntered up to the Chatham Hills clubhouse, where CEO Scott O'Neil and the league's proposed new investor awaited.

With LIV's future still murky, the team championship event slated for next week cancelled and the league facing multiple lawsuits over unpaid invoices as well as financial downsizing that has affected both prize purses and scheduled concerts, players met with O'Neil for about 50 minutes and heard from the investor for the first time. Afterward, they claimed that progress had been made.

«I think there's a lot of excitement in the room,» HyFlyers team member Brendan Steele said. «I think getting the players to be comfortable with how we want to meet forward, I think, is the most important thing.»

Two weeks ago, O'Neil met with players and later announced that LIV Golf had agreed to a term sheet with a lead investor in an effort to fund the league beyond this season. The investor remains unnamed by the league or its players, and it is still unclear what the terms of the investment are or whether high-profile players such as Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau will commit to the plan.

That plan is centered around a proposed 10-event schedule with five international events and five stateside events that also allows players to play on other global tours.

While two-time U.S. Open winner DeChambeau has been involved in trying to maintain and shape the league's future, meeting alongside O'Neil with investors and even leading a players-only meeting at Trump National Golf Club earlier this month, Rahm's commitment to the league beyond this year is far more unclear. The PGA Tour, for its part, has been consistent in that it cannot contact Rahm or