Problems are mounting for LIV Golf. The Saudi circuit has been sued in a federal court in Miami by the Canadian company Mobii Systems Group Ltd., which is claiming more than US$1.1 million in unpaid invoices and lost future revenue after the league decided to stop using its technology during this season.
Mobii was responsible for providing the “Any Shot, Any Time” functionality, a tool used in LIV Golf broadcasts that allowed viewers to access any shot by any player virtually in real time.
According to the lawsuit, filed last Friday, LIV Golf failed to pay US$820,600 for the system licence and another US$104,500 in usage fees generated during this season. Added to that is US$209,531 that the company is claiming as lost profits, arguing that it ceased to receive the expected revenues for the final six tournaments of the 2026 schedule after LIV prematurely terminated the contract, which ran until 31 December.
The court document specifies that all invoices corresponding to 2025 were paid by LIV Golf, so the dispute would have occurred exclusively during this season.
Before going to court, Mobii‘s lawyers sent LIV Golf a formal demand for payment on 8 May, giving the circuit one week to settle the outstanding debt. However, on 25 May the company received an email signed by Nick Connor, Senior Vice President of Technology at LIV Golf, stating that the league would stop using its services from the South Korea tournament and for the remainder of the season.
In that message, Connor explained that the decision was the result of a review of the circuit’s business model, strategic partnerships and cost structure. At the same time, he acknowledged the delayed payments and thanked the Canadian company for its work, assuring that the decision was not related to the quality of the service provided.
Following that communication, Mobii notified the termination of the contract and now maintains that LIV Golf breached the agreement unilaterally, preventing it from continuing to provide the service and depriving it of the agreed revenues for the six remaining tournaments on the schedule.
The lawsuit comes at an especially delicate time for the circuit backed by Saudi Arabia. The Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced on 30 April that it would stop directly financing LIV Golf, after having invested more than US$5 billion since the creation of the competition. Since then, the chief executive, Scott O’Neil, has been working to find approximately US$300 million in funding to ensure the project’s continuity beyond this season.
All this happens just days before LIV Golf contests another event on the schedule, scheduled to start this Thursday at the JCB Golf & Country Club in Rocester (England), with an economic and legal backdrop that adds more uncertainty to the immediate future of the circuit.
