​From left: President Trump, Bryson DeChambeau and LIV CEO Scott O’Neil at LIV New York this week.getty imagesBEDMINSTER, N.J. — As LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil walked the final few holes with the last group on a sweltering Sunday at Trump Bedminster, he had an inside-the-ropes special guest at his side: Ted Goldthorpe, the head of BC Partners Credit, which manages more than $10 billion globally across more than 300 investments. One of the latest companies Goldthorpe’s team reportedly has been kicking the tires on: yep, LIV Golf, which on Wednesday announced it had come to terms with an unnamed investor that will “carry and fund” the beleaguered league into 2027 and beyond.  LIV has not officially acknowledged BC Partners as its would-be funder, or lender. That news came to light via Bloomberg and the Financial Times, the latter of which reported that the deal will be consummated only if BC Partners and other possible investors receive assurances that enough of LIV’s A-listers will hang around beyond this season. Adding intrigue to the dealmaking is the fact that BC Partners is a lender to GSE Worldwide, the sports and entertainment marketing agency that represents LIV’s biggest star, Bryson DeChambeau, along with Joaquin Niemann, the 27-year-old Chilean who won his ninth LIV title here Sunday, with a three-shot win over Harold Varner. GSE said in a statement earlier this week that it had no involvement with BC Partners’ “potential financing transaction involving LIV Golf,” nor, the agency said, was it aware of any discussions happening between the two parties. When I asked DeChambeau in a Sunday-evening press conference (his Crushers won the team competition) whether he had any advance notice of the reported BC deal, he said, “I don’t know the mechanics of the conversations between the investor and GSE. What I can tell you is that the investor, from the conversations I’ve had, has a new and fresh vision on this product. It won’t be changing too much, but it’ll be changing in the right ways.“He sees the vision. He wants to pursue it even more than what we’ve previously done, and he’s excited, from what I can tell. I think, again, if we’re able to get the players all aligned, which I feel like it’ll happen in some capacity, I think it’ll happen, this is going to be a product that will be a force for good in the game, in the ecosystem.”Still unclear, though, is whether BC Partners and Goldthorpe will, in fact, finalize the deal and help see that vision through. — — — —GOLDTHORPE ISN’T NEW to decision making in the sports world, and not just because his firm has a stake in Riddell, the NFL’s leading helmet supplier. Goldthorpe sits on the advisory board for the Brampton Honey Badgers, a Toronto-area team that plays in the Canadian Elite Basketball league, and also holds board seats with both the Canadian Olympic Foundation and Lacrosse Canada. The Pine Valley shirt he was sporting Sunday also