LIV Golf’s Mexico City tournament stream went down moments after it went live on Thursday, cutting off viewers about five minutes into the opening round and pushing the U.S. audience to television instead.
The league’s sixth tournament of the 2026 season began on YouTube and the Fox Sports app at 3:15 p.m. ET, but the screen went black after about five minutes. Separate error messages appeared on both platforms, each pointing to technical difficulties. By 6 p.m. ET, the U.S. streams were still unavailable and were directing viewers to the FS1 broadcast.
LIV said it was dealing with technical difficulties caused by local power outages affecting its broadcast feed. In a statement, it told viewers, “We know many of you were tuning in, and we’re sorry for the disruption,” and added, “We’re experiencing technical difficulties due to local power outages which is impacting our broadcast feed. We’re working on a resolution and hope to be back on air as soon as possible.”
The outage came after the league closed its media center at Club de Golf Chapultepec on Tuesday, also citing power outages, and as questions swirled around the company’s finances. The Athletic reported Wednesday that high-level LIV executives were scrambling to map out the league’s next steps while beginning their own job searches.
Scott O’Neil tried to steady the message in a company email on Wednesday afternoon, saying, “I want to be crystal clear: Our season continues exactly as planned, uninterrupted and at full throttle,” and later adding, “The noise you hear is simply the sound of a movement that is working.” He also said, “If you want to ask me if this business is tough, I would say absolutely,” and, “Can this be challenging? Absolutely, and that’s what we signed up for.”
The public pushback did not stop there. Arlo White called the reports about LIV’s finances “greatly exaggerated,” while David Feherty said, “I’ve been in the professional game for 50 years now, and I don’t think I’ve ever had two or three days where there was more of the absolute nonsense spread out.”
On the course, Joaquin Niemann delivered a brief lift for the event by making the tour’s 16th ever hole-in-one during the opening round. But the wider story around the tournament was the broadcast failure, which left the league defending both its operations and its future as the event runs through Sunday.
That makes the blackout more than a technical hiccup. It landed at a moment when LIV was already facing reports that its top investor, the Saudi-backed Public Investment Fund, was considering pulling funding from the league, and it undercut a message that everything was proceeding normally. For now, the golf continued, the screens came back only on FS1, and LIV was left explaining why a tournament meant to project momentum instead opened in darkness.
