LIV Golf troubles mount as lawsuit filed by former league

With reports of an imminent demise, this is the last thing LIV golf needed.The rebel organization on Friday suffered an embarrassing start to its Mexico City event with technical difficulties for over an hour just one day after rumors swirled the event could be the golf league’s final act.Bombshell reports on Wednesday suggested the rug was about to be pulled from under the breakaway operation with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) considering slashing or even ending its funding of the $5 billion disruptor.It has now emerged LIV and its powerful backer (PIF) are being sued by the operation’s predecessor.In a court filing from April 16, Premier Golf and its parent company World Golf Group Limited have filed a lawsuit against the PIF, Golf Saudi and other LIV entities.The case has been filed in the London Commercial Court, Sky Sports reports.Premier Golf claims it first implemented a concept of a breakaway golf competition before the PIF turned to fund a new operation which ultimately became LIV.Thursday’s opening round of the Mexico City event started with a strong show of resilience and dismissal by LIV with the broadcast beginning with bold statements from commentators Arlo White and David Feherty.White greeted viewers by saying: “We’re delighted to report that the reports of the imminent demise of the LIV Golf league were, in fact, greatly exaggerated.”Feherty went a step further.“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 absolute nonsense spread out,” he said.“There are still some writers and broadcasters that take pride in their work, but this generation has spawned fast typists that consider themselves to be experts, and evidently they’re not.”However, LIV scored a bogey moments later when its stream of the event went down with “severe” technical difficulties.After screening action from the first group of players on the course, including ...