​LIV Golf is not in a good place entering the final major championship of the season.Now more than ever, with the Saudi Arabian-backed venture seemingly standing on its last leg, it desperately needs Jon Rahm or Bryson DeChambeau to show out at Royal Birkdale. If they don’t, it could speed up the league’s already pending demise.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAnd based on how things have gone for LIV Golf’s biggest names in the major championships lately, that actually might be a big ask.Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund announced earlier this year that it was pulling funding from LIV Golf after the 2026 season. The PIF backed the league initially and helped it off the ground, and has reportedly invested more than $5 billion into it since 2022. But the venture has struggled to gain real traction, and has even lost multiple notable golfers back to the PGA Tour, so the PIF opted to back out altogether.What happens next for LIV Golf is very unclear. The league is attempting to move forward with a “LIV 2.0” mindset and tweak the format to both retain top golfers and appeal to investors. They are trying to raise up to $250 million to remain in business next season, too.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementBut if they can’t pull that off, the organization is reportedly laying groundwork for a potential U.S. bankruptcy. LIV Golf is already reportedly running on loans for the rest of 2026, and informed employees of potential mass layoffs.Oh, and there’s a new lawsuit that was filed against LIV Golf, the PIF and others claiming they stole the idea for the league in the first place.None of that is great, and it’s honestly hard to know if the league even has a future beyond the 2026 campaign. There are four events left on the schedule, starting later this month in the United Kingdom. We’ll likely know significantly more after the team championship at the end of August. But from what we do no, it’s far from an ideal situation.It’s now or never for Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau as LIV Golf’s future remains in doubt.(ANDY BUCHANAN via Getty Images)Rahm and DeChambeau can’t save the league on their own. At this point, it may even be too late.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementBut what they can do is provide a massive boost of credibility to the league this week, the final time that most people will even be paying attention to them until next April at Augusta National.A win, or even a legitimate run at the Claret Jug on Sunday afternoon, would give LIV something to pitch to investors in the coming months. It would mean that LIV Golf still has true stars in the sport to build off of, and that it can still compete with Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler and the other big-name counterparts on the PGA Tour. For investors that may be on the fence, a win this week could be everything.But that’s easier said than done. All we have to do is look back a month ago to what happened at the U.S. Open. Rahm, DeChambeau and Dustin Johnson — who failed to qualif