Another LIV Vendor Ramps Up Legal Fight As Layoffs Hit League

Another former LIV Golf vendor is waging a legal fight with the league over missed payments, as LIV's future is in limbo .

Deltatre, a sports technology service provider that began working with LIV during its 2025 season, requested a motion for summary judgment in New York State Supreme Court earlier this month—effectively asking for a judge to rule in its favor without needing further court proceedings. The company filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against LIV with the court on May 22, which had not been previously reported. Deltatre said at the time that LIV owed it $858,548.15. With additional costs from interest and attorneys' fees, that total has risen to approximately $935,000, a source with knowledge of the legal proceedings told Front Office Sports .

"LIV does not deny the contracts, the services, its acceptance of those services, or its receipt of the invoices or its failure to object to them," Deltatre wrote in its latest filing on Aug. 13. "It admits each of those facts. That leaves a straightforward question for this motion: whether a customer that accepted the contracted-for services, retained the resulting invoices without objection, approved the invoices for payment, and nevertheless left $858,548.15 unpaid as of the date of the filing of this action may avoid judgment through generalized affirmative defenses unsupported by the factual record. It may not."

Deltatre is not the only vendor to sue LIV. Fresh Tape Media, which produced LIV's preseason media days event in January, is suing the league for more than $1.23 million in missed payments and interest. Mobii Systems Group Limited, a former technology partner of LIV, has also sued the league for more than $1.1 million for breach of contract, unpaid invoices, and interest. Other vendors and contractors have told FOS they are also owed money by the league.

LIV CEO Scott O'Neil was asked about the status of unpaid vendors last week ahead of LIV's season finale in Indianapolis. "What I would say to them is we're doing everything we can to make sure we can do right by them and the work they committed," O'Neil said. "And I hope we can."

LIV's financial issues go beyond unpaid invoices.

LIV announced on Wednesday that it is laying off staff and scaling back its operations now that the Saudi PIF is no longer funding the league. The league is in talks with BC Partners Credit over a new funding deal .

"The funding commitment announced by PIF earlier this year will reach its conclusion," a LIV spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday to FOS . "As a result, we are scaling back operations as we transition to the next chapter of LIV Golf and work toward making LIV 2.0 a reality. This week, we informed many of our colleagues that their employment under LIV 1.0 will end in the first week of September. We are grateful to our employees for their hard work and dedication in building LIV Golf, and we remain committed to supporting those affected through this transition."

The layoffs were not unexpected given LIV's uncertain future, and employees could have additional opportunities with LIV if the league lives on.

While there is no public deadline for LIV to finalize a deal with BC Partners, Sept. 1 has been floating among golf industry sources as a working deadline—one that may be necessary to meet in order to plan a 2027 schedule.