LIV Golf CEO continues to double down on optimism; Rahm reaches Ryder Cup eligibility deal

POTOMAC FALLS, Va. — Less than two weeks since its Saudi backers yanked the funds that propped up the renegade LIV Golf tour since its inception, the circuit’s CEO expressed almost unbridled optimism about the future of a league that does not know the source of its income beyond this year.Speaking Tuesday, two days before LIV’s first U.S.-based event of the season — LIV Virginia, staged at Trump National Golf Club outside Washington — Scott O’Neil doubled or even tripled down on LIV’s team format, the viability of the league as a business and the idea that individual franchises will have value to potential investors.Advertisement