LIV Golf fans miss season opening due to error as league copies Super Bowl with new initiative

LIV Golf's caller play got underway successful Saudi Arabia astatine Riyadh Golf Club connected Thursday, and the breakaway league has made a fig of changes for the 2025 campaign

Golf fans extracurricular America wanting to ticker the opening tee shots of the 2025 LIV Golf play successful Saudi Arabia were incapable to bash truthful owed to a unrecorded watercourse method error.

The LIV setup kicked disconnected their year nether the lights astatine Riyadh Golf Club connected Thursday, with the opening circular getting underway astatine 6:15 p.m. section time. There was a feeling of anticipation surrounding the play starter, but immoderate fans successful the UK wanting to tune successful were incapable to drawback the shotgun start.

A fig of fans took to societal media to item the issue, with 1 tweeting: "LIV Golf made specified a large woody astir signing with FOX successful the US that they forgot astir the remainder of the world. We tin lone ticker connected the app successful the UK and the app isn’t working…"

Another past posted: "Liv Golf App already crashing bully commencement that." In seasons previously, fans watching crossed the British Isles were capable to bash truthful done the LIV Golf YouTube channel, but this appears to person been scrapped for the 2025 season.

On the backmost of the method hitch connected Thursday, it appears immoderate fans privation to spot the sum instrumentality to YouTube. "Still not moving for me. I’m giving up. Put it backmost connected YouTube!" One X idiosyncratic posted, whilst different wrote: "Same contented for me. Complete neglect by LIV. They should support it connected YouTube successful UK."

The appeared to beryllium rapidly cleared up aft the archetypal circular got underway, and those tuning successful volition spot different archetypal connected the LIV setup. The pre-event broadcast confirmed that a 'half-time show' volition beryllium brought successful for the archetypal circular successful Riyadh, with play taking a three-minute interruption to let the league to transmission their interior Super Bowl.

For each the latest connected news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, spell to The Mirror US.

The lawsuit successful Saudi Arabia is the archetypal broadcast arsenic portion of the breakaway league's multi-year statement with FOX Sports successful the United States. It is believed that the sum connected FOX went up arsenic planned, with nary issues for those watching successful the US.

The determination to slope a woody with FOX is 1 of LIV's biggest moves yet, having antecedently failed to marque their beingness cognize successful the TV industry. New LIV CEO Scott O'Neil is thought to person played a cardinal relation successful the agreement, having replaced Greg Norman past month.

“We are thrilled to spouse with FOX Sports, 1 of the preeminent broadcast networks successful the world,” O’Neil said. “LIV Golf is getting bigger and bolder, and this narration signals the adjacent signifier of maturation arsenic our League joins the institution of the nation’s premier sports leagues and conferences.

"I privation to convey the FOX Sports squad who stock our imaginativeness for the aboriginal of golf, a caller exemplary that is redefining however the athletics is experienced. LIV Golf is drafting a younger, much progressive and tech-savvy instrumentality base, and arsenic our players and teams hole for LIV Golf’s biggest play yet, this statement volition instrumentality our broadcast to caller heights.”