LIV Golf Announces YouTube Pay-Per-View Streaming for Tournaments

LIV Golf will have another streaming option for fans starting on Friday for the startup league’s DC event, which is taking place from May 26–28. 

LIV announced on Friday that pay-per-view and geo-fenced streaming options will be available on the LIV Golf YouTube channel in the United States, Canada, Mexico and South Korea. A free stream will be accessible for fans in the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland. 

When LIV first started broadcasting its events, YouTube was the only platform where fans could watch the 54-hole shotgun-start tournaments. 

At the last LIV Golf event in Tulsa, the CW Network—LIV’s broadcast partner—dropped coverage of the tournament during the final stretch on Sunday on 80 percent of CW affiliates. Those channels promptly switched to previously scheduling programming, leaving fans unable to view the last several holes of the tournament on TV. Dustin Johnson ultimately won the event in a sudden-death playoff. 

For fans who are willing to pay to watch LIV on YouTube, such conflicts will no longer present issues. 

“Expanding the availability of LIV Golf’s live coverage on YouTube marks another milestone in the innovative ways in which we are making our groundbreaking competition available to viewers,” Will Staeger, LIV Golf’s Chief Media Officer, said. “LIV Golf is a global league comprised of some of the game’s biggest stars, and this supports our goal of bringing the sport we love to more people in more places around the world.”