The end of the current version of LIV Golf was never going to simple - and it appears the fallout is going to be ugly as well.

With the Saudi Arabia-funded circuit filing for bankruptcy, a very different LIV Golf league is in the works, if it is to continue at all.

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While CEO Scott O'Neill remains adamant that the breakaway circuit will be back for 2027, the billions injected into it to attract some of the biggest names and the biggest prize money in sport will be gone.

Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler were among the players to stick with the traditional tours, and McIlroy held back in his crictism of those that left following LIV's arrival on the scene in 2022.

That was backed by the billions on offer from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund who confirmed earlier this year that they were pulling their funding.

As talks between LIV Golf and its contracted players continue, one LIV player in particular believes efforts to move the whole process are being impacted by a leak.

Belgium's Thomas Detry, who joined Dustin Johnson's 4Aces ahead of the 2026 season, is back on the DP World Tour this week, and in the field for the BMW Championship at Wentworth.

Speaking to Today's Golfer, Detry did not hold back insisting that confidential information getting into the media was compromising the negotiations.

"We’ve got a player group chat. It seems like there’s a rat in there," he said.

"It seems like we’re just trying to keep all the stuff between us and it seems like most of the stuff is being released out there all the time quite quickly.

"So it’s not easy to keep confidential things confidential. But they’ve (LIV) really improved with the communications.

"We’re trying to keep something confidential in the group. And the idea that someone might transfer it to the media, to someone else, is not really fun to know."

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What is happening to LIV Golf in 2027?

LIV Golf are continuing talks continue with private investment with a view to keeping the circuit alive for 2027, currently labelled at LIV 2.0.

Filing for bankruptcy has also brought with it liabilities of between $500million and $1billion (£370m-£739m) from a host of creditors.

They include players like Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau, who may also seek a return to the PGA Tour - although the initial window for that closed in January with the Returning Member Program.

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Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed are among the players to have returned in that window but both had to meet certain conditions.

In Koepka's case he walked away from his LIV contract a year earlier and on his return to the PGA Tour he was made ineligible for PGA Tour equity bonuses until 2030 and in making a $5million charitable donation at the PGA Tour's request.

Reed confirmed his intention to leave LIV in January 2026 and became eligible return to the PGA Tour at the end of August, while he has also been playing on the DP World Tour as an Honorary lifetime member.

However PGA CEO Brian Rolapp said after of the season-ending Tour Championship there were no immediate plans for another opportunity.

Avenues back to both the PGA and DP World Tour, likely to involve compromise on the part of those who deserted for the LIV millions on offer.

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