LIV Golf’s telecast opens by scolding media, then quickly is hit with lengthy technical issues

The weird week with LIV Golf got weirder. As if that was possible.

Late Tuesday reports started to leak saying that Saudi Arabia’s PIF was going to stop funding the LIV Golf League. Its CEO Scott O’Neil sent an email to players saying that was not the case and that, as a startup, there are always unexpected issues and that they plan on continuing this week in Mexico City and through the end of the year.

Many were anxious to see how it’d go Thursday at Chapultepec Golf Club, if all 57 players would play, if there would be anyone who withdrew. Everyone showed, everyone played.

But then it got weird.

In the opening commentators Arlo White and David Feherty discussed the reports of their league’s demise.

“There’s still some writers and broadcasters that take pride in their work, but this generation has spawned a bunch of fast typists that consider themselves to be experts,” Feherty said. “And evidently they’re not.”

White chimed in: “Reports of the imminent demise of the LIV Golf League were, in fact, greatly exaggerated. It must be exhausting trying to will the LIV Golf League out of existence. Take the day off everybody. Enjoy the golf.”

But here’s the thing, no one could enjoy the golf because roughly 10 minutes later it went to black on both the Fox Sports app and YouTube and stayed there for more than 100 minutes while playing elevator music. They went for so long, live golf still was not being shown at the time of this posting, although the music had changed to more of a Game of Thrones feel.

Joaquin Niemann, the defending champion in Mexico, aced his first hole of the tournament, the par-3 fourth hole. A few minutes later, fade to black. On YouTube, commenters were having a field day with the fact technical difficulties happened for so long just a day after there were reports of the league nearing its end. (Note: the technical delay lasted 2 hours, 30 minutes.)

Yes, it’s been a weird week with LIV Golf. But there are still three days remaining in their work week. Plenty of time to get weirder.