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LIV Golf, a renegade circuit launched by Saudi Arabia featuring former PGA Tour and European Tour stars, will make its second visit to Korea this week with its future thrown into uncertainty. LIV Golf Korea will be played from Thursday to Sunday at the par-70, 7,024-yard Asiad Country Club in the southeastern city of Busan. Last year, LIV Golf made its Korea debut at Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea in Incheon, some 30 kilometers west of the capital city. This is the eighth tournament of the 2026 LIV Golf season, and South Korea is the eighth different host country. It’s also the second event since the Public Investment Fund (PIF), the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia that started LIV Golf in 2021, announced in late April that it will end its financial backing of the tour after this season. PIF is believed to have spent over $5 billion on LIV Golf but has decided to pull the plug because the golf tour was “no longer consistent with the current phase of PIF’s investment strategy.” LIV Golf has been scrambling to secure new sources of funding, while reports have claimed that it has also