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No gambling. No doping. Only moderate alcohol consumption at post-tournament parties.

The new LIV Golf circuit might look like a lot of fun (and money), but the Greg Norman -fronted tour also has plenty of rules and regulations.

The rules and regulations were among the unsealed documents that were released by a federal court in California on Monday. On Sept. 1, U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman partially granted the PGA Tour's motion to unseal certain portions of LIV Golf's rules and regulations and its contracts with players. She ruled that LIV Golf could keep the financial terms and other personal information confidential, but ordered the plaintiffs to submit publicly redacted documents.

Here are some of the highlights:

Golfers who play well can extend their contracts

Talor Gooch 's contract that was submitted to the court was heavily redacted. Gooch was one of three LIV golfers who unsuccessfully attempted to obtain a temporary restraining order from Freeman to compete in the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup playoffs. Financial terms and other personal information was blacked out in the publicly released version. Gooch signed a two-year contract with LIV Golf for the 2022 and 2023 seasons. A source told ESPN on Tuesday that the longest contract between a player and LIV Golf is through the 2027 season.

The contract specifies that Gooch is an independent contractor "and that nothing in this Agreement may be construed or relied upon as evidence that the League Operator or the Team Operator, as the case may be, is an employer, joint-employer, and/or co-employer of the Player."

The contract stipulates that Gooch is not subject to relegation until the end of the 2025 season, and that he can decide to extend the contract by finishing at a certain place in the individual points standings. The specific details of where he had to finish in the standings were redacted in the contract released by the court.

Mentions of an anti-doping policy

According to the rules and regulations, players are prohibited from associating or having "dealings with Persons whose activities have involved trafficking or administration of substances or methods prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency, or other forms of doping."

There are also references to LIV Golf's performance-enhancing drugs policy and substance abuse policy throughout the rules and regulations. The rules state there are separate dispute resolution procedures for such violations. Players are banned from consuming alcohol and banned substances during on-course activities, and "moderate and responsible consumption of alcohol" after competition and during social functions is permitted.

A LIV Golf source told ESPN on Tuesday that the new league hasn't yet instituted a drug policy and isn't testing players for banned substances and recreational drugs. The source said the circuit hoped to have such a program by the 2023 season and fully intends to drug test its players.

The PGA Tour Players Handbook and Regulation says that "all contestants in PGA TOUR events are subject to the terms and conditions of the PGA TOUR Anti-Doping Program."

LIV golfers can be fined up to $50,000

There's a robust disciplinary plan for LIV golfers, according to the rules and regulations. Following an investigation of alleged wrongdoing, which might include on-course etiquette, gambling, drug use or being convicted of a crime, a player will receive an interim written notice that will include a description of the violation, supporting evidence and potential sanctions. The player will have 10 days to submit a written explanation and mitigating factors.

LIV Golf will then issue a written final notice. The player can appeal a ruling through a streamlined appeal process for minor violations and a standard appeal process for more serious ones. LIV Golf has the authority to temporarily suspend a player during his appeal.

Sanctions can include a reprimand or censure, which will be published in the players' newsletter, fines between $1,000 and $50,000, suspension from tournaments, expulsion for two years, and permanent expulsion with no right of reinstatement.

The PGA Tour has three classes of penalties: minor (fine less than $10,000), intermediate (fine between $10,001 and $20,000 and suspension of no more than three tournaments) and major (fine in excess of $20,000 and suspension of more than three tournaments and/or permanent disbarment from Tour).

LIV Golf owns players' on-course media rights

The rules and regulations state that "television, radio, film, internet, statistical data and information, and other associated rights, as well as all other media rights, of all Players participating in events forming part of the Series or any other golf event run in conjunction with, or the under the auspices of, LIV Golf, are, in connection with all content that is created, captured, recorded or otherwise generated during or in conjunction with any such events, hereby granted and assigned to LIV Golf."

While players' media rights surrounding tournaments are "the property of and expressly reserved by and to LIV Golf," the regulations don't "restrict in any way a Player's right to sell, transfer, or hold, or exploit his individual media rights and, accordingly, the value of his name, image, and likeness."

Gooch's contract notes that he "further agrees that the League Operator has the exclusive and unrestricted right in perpetuity (including after termination of this Agreement)" to use his name, image and likeness.

A LIV Golf source said anything a player does in or around a tournament belongs to the circuit in perpetuity. Once the player leaves the event or plays in another event on a different tour, however, there are no restrictions from LIV Golf. He controls and owns his media rights in everything else he does.

Six-time major champion Phil Mickelson , who was among the first players to defect to LIV Golf, said the PGA Tour's "obnoxious greed" regarding players' media rights was one of the reasons he was looking to play somewhere else.

"It's not public knowledge, all that goes on," Mickelson told Golf Digest in February. "But the players don't have access to their own media. If the tour wanted to end any threat [from Saudi or anywhere else], they could just hand back the media rights to the players. But they would rather throw $25 million here and $40 million there than give back the roughly $20 billion in digital assets they control. Or give up access to the $50-plus-million they make every year on their own media channel.

"There are many issues, but that is one of the biggest," he continued. "For me personally, it's not enough that they are sitting on hundreds of millions of digital moments. They also have access to my shots, access I do not have. They also charge companies to use shots I have hit. And when I did 'The Match' -- there have been five of them -- the tour forced me to pay them $1 million each time. For my own media rights. That type of greed is, to me, beyond obnoxious." While LIV players have more freedom to compete in other circuits, LIV Golf still controls the shots Mickelson was referring to in its tournaments.

Injured players still get paid

If a player withdraws from a LIV Golf tournament after hitting at least one shot, he will receive 50% of the prize money awarded to the last-place finisher ($60,000) but will not receive individual points. If a player pulls out after the first round, he will receive the full amount for the last-place finisher ($60,000) but no points. The player's team would continue competing as a three-man squad.

Disqualified players can still participate in team competitions

A player who is disqualified from an individual competition for, say, using an illegal club, having too many clubs in his bag or signing an incorrect scorecard, "may continue to compete in the Team competition for any rounds subsequent to the round in which the disqualification occurred." The player's score for the round in which the disqualification happened cannot be counted in a team's score.

There's no gambling on the LIV Golf circuit

LIV Golf's rules and regulations strictly prohibit gambling and full compliance with code of conduct and anti-corruption provisions. The rules state that each participating player agrees to "not gamble (whether directly or indirectly) in connection with any Tournament, event or any other golf match or competition and shall not manipulate or unlawfully influence any results or statistics."

Players are also prohibited from providing "any nonpublic information to any Person for gambling or wagering purposes." Players caught doing so will face immediate discipline, including permanent expulsion from LIV Golf events.

The rules and regulations state that a player "shall not have any financial interest, either directly or indirectly, in the performance or the winnings of another Player in any Tournament approved or otherwise sanctioned by LIV Golf and/or the Asian Tour or any other regulatory body, whether through purse splitting, Prize money "insurance," financial assistance, bets or otherwise." Players are required "to give his or her best efforts in competition" and can't "bribe, gift, pay, reward or otherwise give anything of value to any Player with the intention of influencing his or her efforts in a golf tournament or similar event."

Under the rules, LIV players are obligated to report to Norman "any known or suspected bribe, gift, payment, reward or other offer for anything of value, or any agreement or acceptance or bet."

Retired LIV golfers still have to work

According to Gooch's contract, if a LIV golfer retires before his contract expires, he must "continue to comply with any reasonable non-playing requests from the League Operator or Team Operator relating to the League or Team, as applicable, including duties relating to team captaincy, promotion of the league, fulfillment of media obligations and attendance at Events (including with respect to wearing and displaying Team Apparel."

LIV Golf wants to grow the game

The very last item in the rules and regulations, rule 9.14, states, "All players are permitted to participate on as broad and diverse a cross-section of global golf events as possible, so long as such participation does not interfere with the Players' obligations to LIV Golf." Like on the PGA Tour, LIV golfers aren't permitted to play on other tournaments if they conflict with LIV Golf events. They don't have to obtain conflicting-event releases from Norman, like PGA Tour players do to play in other non-PGA Tour tournaments.

"The League views participation of the Players in Other Events as a major benefit to the promotion of the game of golf worldwide," the rules and regulations says.

The other events include the Masters, U.S. Open, The Open, PGA Championship, Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup, DP World Tour events and PGA Tour events.

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NORTH PLAINS, Ore. — LIV Golf is about many things: disruption, sportswashing, vengeance (in the case of frontman Greg Norman) and, uh, golf. But more than anything, it’s about cold, hard cash. As with many other issues surrounding this upstart tour, the details around all the money are shadowy. In an effort to get more granular, the Fire Pit Collective spoke with four agents who represent LIV golfers; they were granted anonymity to facilitate candor.

“What you have to understand about professional golfers is that they are all whores,” Agent A says. “That is the starting point.”

Touched off by a recent Brandel Chamblee tweet in which he said prize money is being applied to signing bonuses, there has been discussion this week about how the money is distributed on the LIV tour. The lower-wattage players in the field at Pumpkin Ridge have to kill what they eat, guaranteed nothing beyond the last-place money of $120,000 in the 48-man field. The more established players who jumped to LIV from the PGA and European tours have received guaranteed money that, contrary to Chamblee’s tweet, is in addition to whatever the player claims from the tournament purses, which this week is $20 million plus an additional $5 million for the concurrent team competition. “The prize fund is the prize fund,” says Pat Perez, who is making his LIV debut this week. “Whatever you win you get to keep. That’s why guys are taking this seriously.”

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As with team sports, the guaranteed money on LIV varies from player to player, based on age, starpower, current form and projected performance. “Every deal is different,” Ian Poulter says. “There hasn’t been a lot of talk about the money [among players] because that’s personal.” Some of the numbers that have been floated in media reports have been fantastical: $200 million for Phil Mickelson, $150 million for Dustin Johnson, $100 million for Bryson DeChambeau. “You have to take that with a grain of salt,” Agent B says. “Who does it benefit to inflate those numbers? LIV, obviously, because they’re trying to generate buzz and recruit more players. But it also benefits the agents who are trying to sign new players or nudge other clients to make the jump.”

Though it is subject to negotiation, the standard arrangement in professional golf is that players keep all of the money they win on the course but agents take 20 percent of appearance fees and endorsement deals. LIV’s upfront money is treated like the latter, and as a result, the player representatives are getting a fat cut. (Because there is no cut in the events and players are guaranteed a check, some agencies are taking a commission on the first $120,000 of a player’s winnings, treating it as a de facto appearance fee.) One veteran caddie to a top player who has remained loyal to the PGA Tour says in a text message, “I honestly think that one of the backstories to this LIV thing are agents who desperately want the biggest payday of their lives.”

A key player in the building of LIV Golf is GSE Worldwide, a New York-based outfit that represents seven players who have made the jump: DeChambeau, Sergio Garcia, Louis Oosthuizen, Brendan Grace, Abraham Ancer, Carlos Ortiz and Eugenio Chacarra (who just turned pro). On Thursday, Norman told me, “We still have some big announcements coming.” Speculation has centered around another GSE client, Sam Burns. (Andrew Witlieb, the head of the company’s golf division, did not respond to a request for comment for this story.) GSE’s aggressive business model dovetails nicely with LIV’s desperate need to sign players. “We call it pushing paper,” Agent A says. “Those guys buy clients. They go in and say, ‘We’ll guarantee you X millions of dollars in income to sign with us.’ That means if [GSE doesn’t] land some big deals, they get their ass handed to them.” But Agent C pushes back on the notion that he or any of his colleagues have steered their players to LIV despite the risks of being banned from what was their home tour, to say nothing of the blowback attached to LIV’s funding coming from Saudi Arabia. “Our job is to present all the options to the player, but they always make the final decision,” Agent C says. “If you push a player to do something that is not in his best interests long-term, you’re not going to be in this business very long.”

Norman and LIV’s newest signee Brooks Koepka pressing flesh on Thursday with Majed Al Sorour, CEO of the Saudi Golf Federation.

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How are players taking care of the rest of their “team” in this era of inflated purses? Most caddies and swing coaches to LIV players are getting the same percentages as always, which means 10 percent of a victory this week is worth a cool $400,000 to the looper. “I’ve heard a little grumbling from the players,” Agent D says, “but there has been so much talk about quote unquote player greed that I think they are sensitive to not squeezing anyone right now. I do expect that at the end of this season some percentages will get adjusted.”

Perez has no such plans. “The whole thing about this is I’m trying to take care of my family,” he says. “And H [caddie Michael Hartford] is family. Claude [swing coach Claude Harmon] is family. So I’m still going to take care of these guys the way we usually operate.” Each LIV player is given four plane tickets per tournament: one first class, one premium economy and two economy. He also gets four rooms in a luxury hotel. So caddies who used to have to pay their own way are now traveling for free. With no cut, they are also guaranteed a check every time out, and the 54-hole events reduce the wear and tear on their aching joints. “I have gotten calls from more than a dozen caddies dying for a bag,” Agent D says.

Perez signed with LIV for four years, which will take him to age 50, when he will be eligible for the PGA Tour Champions … if golf’s warring bureaucracies ever make peace. Like other players with relatively modest upfront money, he received his haul in one chunk. “Mine is in,” he says. “I got it all. It’s fucking incredible.” According to Agent C, the contracts that run into high-eight and nine figures are paid in annual installment across the three-, four- or five-year deals. Every player with a long-term LIV deal is compelled to play every event on the schedule, even as it potentially expands from eight tournaments this year to 14 in coming years. There are clawback provisions should a player miss a significant amount of time for injury. Interestingly, there is also a “morals clause” by which LIV can cancel a contract and recoup the upfront money. This covers incidents of on-course cheating and legal troubles, and particular attention has been given to consorting with or being influenced by gamblers. “With so many guys getting guaranteed money,” Agent C says, “there is the concern that a player could be more tempted to do something during the competitive rounds, which might not mean as much to them. Where there is money there is always corruption. That’s just how humans are.”

The way LIV has quickly reshaped the landscape of professional golf has led to a lot of reflection on human nature. On Thursday, a couple of miles from Pumpkin Ridge, a dozen 9/11 families participated in a protest of LIV’s links to Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers. While fans, reporters, political commentators and a few professional golfers wrestle with these larger geopolitical issues, business is booming on the LIV tour. Says Agent A, “I was just talking with the guy doing all the deals for LIV, and he told me he is drinking from a fire hose right now. He is getting bombarded by agents. I think there was some initial apprehension about how this whole thing was going to play out, so a lot of people were on the sidelines, observing. Now the gold rush is on.”

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Some LIV Golf players have committed to multiple-year contracts

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ST. ALBANS, England — Very little has been said in Phil Mickelson’s deliberately tentative press conferences this week at the LIV Golf Invitational, but one factoid did squeak in Thursday evening. Despite being suspended indefinitely by the PGA Tour, and unwilling to comment on that matter at all, Mickelson has instead committed to play every single one of the eight LIV events this year, and all 10 events the series is planning for 2023.

In other words, even though Mickelson believes private contractual info should stay exactly that — private — he did admit that he has signed on for at least two years. 

While much has been reported about the hefty sums of money players have accepted to commit to the rival series, not much had been clarified about the length of their commitments. They are not the same for every player, but they are often more than one year.

Bryson DeChambeau has not played a single LIV event yet, but his commitment was officially announced Friday during the second round. His contract, according to sources close to the situation, is multi-year as well, and also worth more than the previously reported $120 million figure. 

Speaking after his second-round 70 Friday, Dustin Johnson was in a good mood, happy to share. Mickelson has committed to two years, I said to DJ, then asked: Have you committed to multiple years of LIV Golf?

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“Yes, I have,” Johnson said, always answering only the question he’s been asked. 

“How many?” 

“A few,” he said, smiling. 

The press conference was then abruptly ended, limited to less than four minutes in all. But the truth was, the highest-ranked player in the field, who ultimately validated LIV in a way no other pro had before last week, was happy to share the exact info. Johnson sauntered off the podium, crossed paths with me and spoke quietly: “Officially, it’s four years.” 

Johnson had spent the previous few minutes telling the press that he’s very content with the proposed schedule of just eight events in 2022, and four more if you include the major championships. His exemption in those, as it turns out, runs out after the same four years, in 2025.

“That was the whole reason I started playing on LIV is to play less golf, not more,” he said. 

The schedule, it seems — and that it includes fewer events — is an underrated point of progress for LIV with the players who have committed. They argue that fewer events creates greater freedom for the rest of their lives. They have often scorned the 15-event minimum the PGA Tour has held up as a requisite to maintain membership on a year-to-year basis. Well, there’s no complex philosophy needed to understand it’s easier to commit to multiple years when the money is large and suddenly the work is less. Even the players who haven’t necessarily signed multi-year deals are able to think about a future where instead of 15 events being their minimum for membership, maybe it’s their maximum. 

“I’m doing this to play less so I can be more with my family,” Sergio Garcia said. “Not to play more.”

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PGA Tour and LIV Golf Agree to Alliance, Ending Golf’s Bitter Fight

In a stunning announcement, the tour, along with the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, said the rivals had agreed to create a “new, collectively owned, for-profit entity.”

By Alan Blinder

• June 6, 2023

The PGA Tour, the dominant force in men’s professional golf for generations, and LIV Golf, which made its debut just last year and is backed by hundreds of millions of dollars in Saudi money, will together form an industry powerhouse that is expected to transform the sport, executives announced Tuesday.

The rival circuits had spent the last year clashing in public, and the tentative agreement that emerged from secret negotiations blindsided virtually all of the world’s top players, agents and broadcasters. The deal would create a new company that would consolidate the PGA Tour’s prestige, television contracts and marketing muscle with Saudi money.

The new company came together so quickly that it does not yet even have a name and is referred to in the agreement documents simply as “NewCo.” It would be controlled by the PGA Tour but significantly financed by the Saudi government’s Public Investment Fund . The fund’s governor, Yasir al-Rumayyan, will be the new company’s chairman.

The deal, coming when Saudi Arabia is increasingly looking to assert itself on the world stage as something besides one of the world’s largest oil producers, has implications beyond sports. The Saudi money will give the new organization greater clout, but it comes with the troubling association of the kingdom’s human rights record, its treatment of women and accusations that it was responsible for the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a leading critic.

The agreement does not immediately amount to a Saudi takeover of professional golf, but it positions the nation’s top officials to have enormous sway over the game. It also represents an escalation in Saudi ambitions in sports, moving beyond its corporate sponsorship of Formula 1 racing and ownership of an English soccer team into a place where it can exert influence over the highest reaches of a global game.

“Everybody is in shock,” said Paul Azinger, the winner of the 1993 P.G.A. Championship and the lead golf analyst for NBC Sports. “The future of golf is forever different.”

Since LIV began play last year, it has used some of the richest contracts and prize money in the sport’s history to entice players away from the PGA Tour. Until Tuesday morning, the PGA Tour had been publicly uncompromising: LIV was a threat to the game and a glamorous way for Saudi Arabia to rehabilitate its reputation. The PGA Tour’s commissioner, Jay Monahan, had even avoided uttering LIV’s name in public.

But a series of springtime meetings in London, Venice and San Francisco led to a framework agreement that stunned the golf industry for its timing and scope. Monahan, who defended the decision as a sound business choice and said he had accepted that he would be accused of hypocrisy, met with PGA Tour players in Toronto on Tuesday in what he called an “intense” and “certainly heated” exchange.

The deal, though, proved right the predictions that there could eventually be an uneasy patching-up of the sport’s fractures. The PGA Tour’s board, which includes a handful of players like Patrick Cantlay and Rory McIlroy, must still approve the agreement, a process that could be tumultuous.

It was only a year ago this week that LIV Golf held its inaugural tournament, prompting the PGA Tour to suspend players who competed in it. But by the end of the year, even though the circuit was locked in an antitrust battle with the PGA Tour and its stars were confronting uncertain futures at the sport’s marquee competitions, LIV had some of the biggest names in golf on its payroll. Its players have included the major tournament champions Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and Cameron Smith.

The players were familiar, but LIV’s 54-hole events — the name derives from the Roman numerals for that number — were jarring, with blaring music and golfers in shorts not facing the specter of being unceremoniously cut midway through. The PGA Tour, meanwhile, defended its 72-hole events, where low performers do not compete into the weekend, as rigorous athletic tests that adhered to the traditions of an ancient game.

The less-starchy LIV concept drew plenty of headlines, and the league won even greater attention because of its links to former President Donald J. Trump, who hosted LIV tournaments and emerged as one of its most enthusiastic boosters. The league, however, was still largely dependent on the largess of a wealth fund that had been warned that a rebel golf circuit was no certain financial bonanza. It stumbled to a television deal with the CW Network, and big corporate sponsorships were scarce.

The league accrued some athletic successes, even as its players faced the risk of eventual exclusion from golf’s major tournaments, which are run by organizations that are close to, but distinct from, the PGA Tour.

Last month, Koepka won the P.G.A. Championship , which was organized by the P.G.A. of America. Koepka, Mickelson and Patrick Reed were among the LIV players who fared especially well at the Masters Tournament, administered by Augusta National Golf Club, in early April.

Within weeks of the Masters, though, after a run of mutual overtures and months of bravado, PGA Tour and Saudi executives were convening in secret to see if there was a way toward some kind of coexistence, in part, Monahan suggested, because he did not think it was “right or sustainable to have this tension in our sport.” The result was an agreement that gives the tour the upper hand but is poised to make permanent Saudi Arabia’s influence over golf’s starry ranks.

Monahan, the tour’s commissioner, is in line to be the chief executive of the new company, which will include an executive committee stocked with tour loyalists. But al-Rumayyan's presence, as well as the promise that the wealth fund can play a pivotal role in how the company is ultimately funded, means that Saudi Arabia could do much to shape the sport’s future.

In a memorandum to players on Tuesday, Monahan insisted that his tour’s “history, legacy and pro-competitive model not only remains intact, but is supercharged for the future.”

That was hardly a consensus view. Mackenzie Hughes, a PGA Tour player, acidly noted on Twitter that there was “nothing like finding out through Twitter that we’re merging with a tour that we said we’d never do that with.” And Terry Strada, the chairwoman of 9/11 Families United, who had assailed the Saudi foray into golf because of misgivings about the kingdom after the 2001 terrorist attacks, said Monahan and the tour had “become just more paid Saudi shills, taking billions of dollars to cleanse the Saudi reputation.”

The tour and the wealth fund both had incentives to forge an agreement, besides the prospect of concluding a chaotic chapter marked by allegations of betrayal and greed.

LIV had faced setbacks in civil litigation against the PGA Tour that threatened to drag al-Rumayyan into sworn testimony and force the wealth fund to turn over documents that could have become public. The tour has been under scrutiny from Justice Department antitrust investigators , who had examined in recent months whether the tour’s tactics to counter LIV had undermined golf’s labor market.

The litigation between the tour and LIV will end under the terms of the agreement announced Tuesday. The fate of the antitrust inquiry was less clear — experts said the new arrangement would not automatically immunize the tour from potential legal trouble — but LIV’s standing as its leading cheerleader evaporated.

For this year, the world’s professional golfers are unlikely to see seismic changes in their schedules or playing formats, with LIV and the PGA Tour expected to hold competitions as planned. There may be far more consequential changes later, though, chiefly because the new PGA Tour-controlled company will determine whether and how LIV’s team-oriented format might be blended with the tour’s more familiar offerings.

LIV players are expected to have pathways to apply for reinstatement to the PGA Tour or the DP World Tour, circuits from which some had resigned when faced with fines and suspensions, but they could face residual penalties for leaving in the first place. Through a spokeswoman, Greg Norman, the two-time major tournament champion who has been LIV’s commissioner, declined to be interviewed on Tuesday.

No matter what comes of the LIV brand or style, Tuesday’s announcement is a singular milestone in the Saudi quest to become a titan in global sports. With the deal, the kingdom can move, at least in golf, from a well-heeled disrupter to a seat of power at the establishment’s table.

Saudi officials have repeatedly denied that political or public relations motives undergird their eager pursuit of sports investments. Instead, they have framed the investments as necessary for shoring up the resource-rich kingdom’s finances and to enhance its standing on the world stage.

Beyond its imprint on golf , the wealth fund previously purchased Newcastle United, a potent English soccer team, and a company with close ties to the fund has eyed investments in cricket, tennis and e-sports. And Saudi Arabia has tried to become a host of major sporting events, from boxing matches to its pending bid to host the World Cup in 2030.

But when Saudi Arabia barged into golf last year, it was nearly unthinkable that al-Rumayyan would so swiftly become a formal ally of Monahan and the sport’s other power brokers.

“Anybody who thought about it logically would see that something was going to have to happen,” Adam Hadwin, a PGA Tour player, said on Tuesday. It was inconceivable, he suggested, that the world’s best players would only compete against each other at the four major tournaments, but an armistice “happening this quick and in this way is surprising.”

For much of the last year, LIV players have deflected questions about Saudi Arabia’s history on human rights and other matters that helped make the kingdom’s surge into golf an international flashpoint. They were, they often said, merely golfers and entertainers.

Until Tuesday, Monahan had tried to use the stain of Saudi Arabia to undercut the new league and its golfers.

“I would ask any player that has left, or any player that would ever consider leaving: Have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour?” he said last year.

On Tuesday, when Monahan declared that the leaders of golf’s factions had “realized that we were better off together than we were fighting or apart,” it was his tour’s players facing questions about lucrative connections to Riyadh.

“I’ve dedicated my entire life to being at golf’s highest level,” Hadwin, the tour player, said. “I’m not about to stop playing golf because the entity that I play for has joined forces with the Saudi government.”

Reporting was contributed by Andrew Das , Kevin Draper , Lauren Hirsch , Eric Lipton , Victor Mather , Ahmed Al Omran and Bill Pennington .

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LIV Golf Money List: How Much Every Player Has Earned In 2024

The LIV Golf League is known for the big money its players can win - here is what each player has claimed so far this season

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The sixth LIV Golf event of the season took place in Adelaide, and, like the other tournaments in the regular season, a purse of $25m was on offer, with $20m distributed among the players and another $5m invested in the top three teams.

Even with the PGA Tour's signature events, which regularly offer purses of $20m or more, there is no other circuit that promises greater financial rewards than LIV Golf, with even those finishing bottom of the leaderboard guaranteed payment. 

Chilean Joaquin Niemann remains at the top of the money list thanks largely to a flying start to the season that included two wins in the first three events. After another solid performance at LIV Golf Adelaide, which finished with a T3, he also claimed $920,000 to boost his prize money to $10,365,500 for the year so far.

Second is Dean Burmester, who entered the latest event on the back of victory at LIV Golf Miami . He also finished T3 in Adelaide to claim the $920,000 that takes his prize money to almost $7m in 2024.

After Brendan Steele claimed his maiden LIV Golf win in Australia, he has seen a huge jump up the money list, from 41st to seventh as his earnings for the year soared to almost $5m.

The other winners this year are Dustin Johnson , who is sixth on the list helped by his victory at LIV Golf Las Vegas , and LIV Golf Hong Kong winner Abraham Ancer, who is third. As well as $4m for that victory, he finished T9 in the latest event to add another $385,500 to his overall earnings of $5,496,000.

Louis Oosthuizen finished runner-up to Steele to claim $2,250,000 and move up to fifth on the money list with $5,450,000 for the year, while another big name in the top 10 is Jon Rahm , who produced a sixth successive top-10 finish at The Grange Golf Club with a T3. That earned him another $920,000 to leave him 10th. 

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Brendan Steele jumped to seventh on the money list after his win in Adelaide

Following the six events so far, there are now 43 LIV Golf players with winnings of over $1m this season, with Scott Vincent taking up the last of those places on $1,012,036.00.

Further down the money list are big names including former World No.1 Lee Westwood on $735,717 and Anthony Kim $210,000.

Here is how the list of earnings for the 2024 season currently stands.

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LIV Golf: How much money every player has been paid by the Saudi-backed league since its inception!

Published: 27 February 2023 Last updated: 28 April 2024

Bryson DeChambeau won LIV Golf Greenbrier after shooting 61-58 in his final two rounds!

LIV Golf’s third season is well underway, but how much has every player been paid? From Dustin Johnson and Jon Rahm to Joaquin Niemann and Anthony Kim, we reveal who has earned every dime on the Saudi-funded series.

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The big-money LIV Golf League has 14 events across the globe in 2024, offering the players the opportunity to earn millions of dollars.

Unlike 2023, the 2024 LIV Golf season sees 54 players compete throughout the season with 13 teams set for the year. There will be two individual spots, one of which was taken by Hudson Swafford ahead of the first event, while Anthony Kim made his long-awaited return to golf in Jeddah. See the full roster and teams here .

But while the rebel series’ has changed some elements for this year, one thing that has remained the same is the vast prize money on offer.

Each of the 12 regular season events has a $25m purse with $20m for the individual competition and $5m for the team competition.

Every individual tournament winner receives $4m, with the player who finished last in the 54-man events taking home $50,000. Each tournament’s winning team receives $3m to split between its four players. Only the PGA Tour’s flagship event, The Players Championship, has a bigger prize fund .

The player who tops the individual standings at the end of the season receives an $18m bonus. Dustin Johnson took the honors in LIV Golf’s inaugural season with 4Aces teammate Talor Gooch scooping the pot in 2023.

The 2024 season’s finale, the Team Championship, will have a $50m purse up for grabs for the 13 teams. The winning team will receive $14 million, the runners-up $8 million, and third place $6 million. Even the team finishing last will receive $1.25 million. For 2024, this team prize fund will be split 60/40, with 60% of the team’s winnings going directly to a team operating fund, while the remaining 40% will be distributed in 10% shares to each of the four players.

LIV’s players will have even more opportunities to add to their vast earnings with the news that they will be allowed to play in the Major Championships if they meet the qualifying criteria, as well as being able to play on the Asian and DP World Tours.

Bookmark this page and check back after every LIV event for a full breakdown of the winnings from every event and overall.

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Players ranked 1st to 24th – the ‘Lock Zone’ automatically secure their spot on LIV for the following season. Players who finished the season in 25th to 44th are in the ‘Open Zone’ (not the one we see on Sky Sports during the year’s final Major), meaning they could be traded by their captains or released from LIV altogether. Players in 45th and below, unless a captain or exempt due to their contract conditions are relegated from LIV, thus losing their status on the big-money tour.

LIV Golf 2023 Total Individual Winnings

Talor Gooch topped the LIV Golf prize money list in 2023, winning just over $18 million across the 13-event season that saw the man from Midwest City, Oklahoma win three times (Adelaide, Singapore, Andalucia).

In doing so Gooch also scooped a further $18 million bonus check, taking his total winnings to over $36 million for the season.

Australian Cameron Smith took second in the standings receiving a bonus of $8 million, and Brooks Koepka leapfrogged Bryson DeChambeau into second place following his victory in Jeddah, picking up a further $4 million in the process.

Here are the final total individual winnings for 2023 (including the respective winnings from the Team Championship finale in Miami).

*Includes $ 18 million bonus for winning individual standings  **Includes $8 million bonus for finishing second in individual standings  ***Includes $ 4 million bonus for finishing third in individual standings 

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1. Crushers GC ( Bryson DeChambeau, Charles Howell III, Paul Casey, Anirban Lahiri) – $14 million/$1.4 million each 2. RangeGoats GC ( Bubba Watson, Talor Gooch, Harold Varner III, Thomas Pieters) – $8 million/$800,000 each 3. Torque GC ( Joaquin Niemann, Sebastian Munoz, Mito Pereira, Davig Puig) – $6 million/$600,000 each 4. 4 Aces GC ( Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Peter Uihlein, Pat Perez) – $4million/$400,000 each

Beaten in semi-finals

Stinger GC ( Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Branden Grace, Dean Burmester) – $3.25 million/$325,000 each Fireballs GC ( Sergio Garcia, Abraham Ancer, Carlos Ortiz, Eugenio Chacarra) – $3 million/$300,000 each Cleeks GC ( Martin Kaymer, Bernd Wiesberger, Graeme McDowell, Richard Bland) – $2.75 million/$275,000 each HyFlyers GC ( Phil Mickelson, Cameron Tringale, James Piot, Brendan Steele) – $2.5 million/$250,000 each

Beaten in quarter-finals

Ripper GC ( Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Matt Jones, Jed Morgan) – $2 million/$250,000 Smash GC ( Brooks Koepka, Matthew Wolff, Jason Kokrak, Chase Koepka) – $1.75 million/$175,000 Majesticks GC ( Henrik Stenson, Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood, Sam Horsfield) – $1.5 million/$150,000 Iron Heads GC ( Kevin Na, Scott Vincent, Sihwan Kim, Danny Lee) – $1.25 million/$125,000

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1: Harold Varner III, -12, $4,000,000

2: Branden Grace, -11, $2,250,000

3: Mito Pereira, -10, $1,500,000

T-4: Sebastián Muñoz, -8, $900,000

T-4: Henrik Stenson, -8, $900,000

T-6: Louis Oosthuizen, -7, $613,333

T-6: Kevin Na, -7, $613,333

T-6: Andy Ogletree, -7, $613,333

T-9: Bryson DeChambeau, -6, $421,666

T-9: Cameron Tringale, -6, $421,666

T-9: Cameron Smith, -6, $421,666

T-12: David Puig, -5, $350,000

T-12: Carlos Ortiz, -5, $350,000

T-12: Brooks Koepka, -5, $350,000

T-15: Peter Uihlein, -4, $293,333

T-15: Dean Burmester, -4, $293,333

T-15: Talor Gooch, -4, $293,333

T-18: Graeme McDowell, -3, $250,000

T-18: Eugenio Chacarra, -3, $250,000

T-18: Laurie Canter, -3, $250,000

T-18: Pat Perez, -3, $250,000

T-18: Scott Vincent, -3, $250,000

T-23: Matt Jones, -2, $203,833

T-23: Richard Bland, -2, $203,333

T-23: Dustin Johnson, -2, $203,333

T-23: Brendan Steele, -2, $203,333

T-23: Martin Kaymer, -2, $203,333

T-23: Ian Poulter, -2, $203,333

T-29: Charl Schwartzel, -1, $182,500

T-29: Anirban Lahiri, -1, $182,500

T-31: Joaquin Niemann, E, $167,500

T-31: Sergio Garcia, E, $167,500

T-31: Charles Howell III, E, $167,500

T-31: Bernd Wiesberger, E, $167,500

T-35: Marc Leishman, +1, $148,000

T-35: Danny Lee, +1, $148,000

T-35: Lee Westwood, +1, $148,000

T-35: James Piot, +1, $148,000

T-35: Patrick Reed, +1, $148,000

40: Bubba Watson, +2, $140,000

41: Jediah Morgan, +5, $137,500

T-42: Chase Koepka, +8, $133,750

T-42: Abraham Ancer, +8, $133,750

44: Phil Mickelson, _9, $130,000

45: Sihwan Kim, +14, $127,500

WD: Jason Kokrak, 73, $40,833

WD: Thomas Pieters, 72-73, $81,666

WD: Matthew Wolff, 73-78, $81,666

Replacement: Wade Ormbsy, $40,833

Replacement: Kieran Vincent, $81,666

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1: Torque GC (Puig, Munoz, Pereira, Niemann), -27. $3,000,000

2: Stinger GC (Grace, Schwartzel, Oosthuizen, Burmester), -24, $1,500,000

3: RangeGoats (Varner, Gooch, Ormsby, Watson), -19, $500,000

LIV Golf Tulsa final individual leaderboard

1: Dustin Johnson, -17 (won in play-off), $4,000,000

T-2: Cameron Smith, -17, $1,875,000

T-2: Branden Grace, -17, $1,875,000

4: Harold Varner III, -13, $1,000,000

T-5: Eugenio Chacarra, -12, $703,000

T-5: Brooks Koepka, -12, $703,000

T-5: Bryson DeChambeau, -12, $703,000

T-8: Dean Burmester, -11, $468,333

T-8: Joaquin Niemann, -11, $468,333

T-8: Bubba Watson, -11, $468,333

T-11: Jason Kokrak, -10, $350,000

T-11: Patrick Reed, -10, $350,000

T-11: Anirban Lahiri, -10, $350,000

T-11: Charles Howell III, -10, $350,000

T-11: Brendan Steele, -10, $350,000

T-16: Scott Vincent, -9, $285,000

T-16: Thomas Pieters, -9, $285,000

T-18: Henrik Stenson, -8, $250,000

T-18: Cameron Tringale, -8, $250,000

T-18: Bernd Wiesberger, -8, $250,000

T-18: Pat Perez, -8, $250,000

T-18: Ian Poulter, -8, $250,000

T-23: Laurie Canter, -7, $200,714

T-23: Sergio Garcia, -7, $200,714

T-23: Peter Uihlein, -7, $200,714

T-23: Chase Koepka, -7, $200,714

T-23: Louis Oosthuizen, -7, $200,714

T-23: Abraham Ancer, -7, $200,714

T-23: Richard Bland, -7, $200,714

T-30: Sebastian Munoz, -6, $170,000

T-30: Carlos Ortiz, -6, $170,000

T-30: Matt Jones, -6, $170,000

T-30: Mito Pereira, -6, $170,000

T-30: Matthew Wolff, -6, $170,000

35: Charl Schwartzel, -5, $155,000

T-36: Talor Gooch, -4, $146,250

T-36: Marc Leishman, -4, $146,250

T-36: David Puig, -4, $146,250

T-36: Danny Lee, -4, $146,250

T-40: James Piot, -3, $137,500

T-40: Martin Kaymer, -3, $137,500

T-40: Paul Casey, -3, $137,500

43: Sihwan Kim, -2, $132,500

44: Kevin Na, -1, $130,000

T-45: Phil Mickelson, E, $126,250

T-45: Graeme McDowell, E, $126,250

47: Jed Morgan, +1, $122,500

WD: Lee Westwood

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1: Stinger GC (Grace, Schwartzel, Oosthuizen, Burmester), -40, $3,000,000

2: 4Aces (Johnson, Reed, Perez, Uihlein), -39, $1,500,000

3: RangeGoats (Watson, Varner, Pieters, Gooch), -35, $500,000

LIV Golf Singapore final individual leaderboard

1: Talor Gooch, -17 (won in play-off), $4,000,000

2: Sergio Garcia, -17, $2,250,000

3: Brooks Koepka, -16, $1,500,000

4: Scott Vincent, -15, $1,050,000

5: Mito Pereira, -14, $975,000

T-6: Jason Kokrak, -12, $655,000

T-6: Cameron Smith, -12, $655,000

T-8: Charles Howell III, -11, $468,333

T-8: Harold Varner III, -11, $468,333

T-11: Peter Uihlein, -10, $380,000

T-11: Cameron Tringale, -10, $380,000

T-13: Eugenio Chacarra, -9, $330,000

T-13: Patrick Reed, -9, $330,000

T-13: Phil Mickelson, -9, $330,000

T-16: Marc Leishman, -8, $280,000

T-16: Jed Morgan, -8, $280,000

T-16: Louis Oosthuizen, -8, $280,000

T-19: Anirban Lahiri, -7, $245,000

T-19: Carlos Ortiz, -7, $245,000

T-19: Kevin Na, -7, $245,000

T-19: Bryson DeChambeau, -7, $245,000

T-23: Thomas Pieters, -6, $208,750

T-23: Danny Lee, -6, $208,750

T-23: Dustin Johnson, -6, $208,750

T-23: Bubba Watson, -6, $208,750

T-27: Brendan Steele, -5, $190,000

T-27: Ian Poulter, -5, $190,000

T-27: Laurie Canter, -5, $190,000

T-30: Paul Casey, -4, $175,000

T-30: Henrik Stenson, -4, $175,000

T-30: Matt Jones, -4, $175,000

T-33: Sebastian Munoz, -3, $160,000

T-33: Charl Schwartzel, -3, $160,000

T-33: David Puig, -3, $160,000

T-36: Richard Bland, -2, $145,000

T-36: Pat Perz, -2, $145,000

T-36: Graeme McDowell, -2, $145,000

T-36: Lee Westwood, -2, $145,000

T-41: Matthew Wolff, -1, $133,750

T-41: Dean Burmester, -1, $133,750

T-41: Branden Grace, -1, $133,750

T-41: Martin Kaymer, -1, $133,750

45: Sihwan Kim, +1, $127,500

46: Chase Koepka, +2, $125,000

47: Abraham Ancer, +4, $122,500

48: James Piot, +8, $120,000

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1: RangeGoats (Talor Gooch, Harold Varner III, Thomas Pieters, Bubba Watson), -37, $3,000,000

2: Fireballs (Sergio Garcia, Charcarra, Ortiz, Ancer), -34, $1,500,000

3: Crushers (Bryson DeChambeau, Charles Howell, Anirban Lahiri, Casey), -32, $500,000

1: Talor Gooch, -19, $4,000,000

2: Anirban Lahiri, -16, $2,250,000

T-3: Patrick Reed, -15, $1,000,000

T-3: Cameron Smith, -15, $1,000,000

T-3: Cameron Tringale, -15, $1,000,000

T-3: Pat Perez, -15, $1,000,000

T-7: Peter Uihlein, -14, $533,333

T-7: Dean Burmester, -14, $533,333

T-7: Charl Schwartzel, -14, $533,333

10: Dustin Johnson, -13, $415,000

T-11: Jason Kokrak, -12, $310,000

T-11: Bubba Watson, -12, $310,000

T-11: Kevin Na, -12, $310,000

T-11: Sergio Garcia, -12, $310,000

T-11: Henrik Stenson, -12, $310,000

T-11: Phil Mickelson, -12, $310,000

T-11: Harold Varner III, -12, $310,000

T-11: Louis Oosthuizen, -12, $310,000

T-11: Brooks Koepka, -12, $310,000

T-11: Abraham Ancer, -12, $310,000

T-21: Marc Leishman, -11, $230,000

T-21: Charles Howell III, -11, $230,000

T-21: Sebastian Munoz, -11, $230,000

T-24: Chase Koepka, -10, $207,500

T-24: Danny Lee, -10, $207,500

T-26: Ian Poulter, -9, $192,500

T-26: Mito Pereira, -9, $192,500

T-26: Bryson DeChambeau, -9, $192,500

T-26: Brendan Steele, -9, $192,500

T-30: Joaquin Niemann, -8, $177,500

T-30: Bernd Wiesberger, -8, $177,500

T-32: James Piot, -7, $162,500

T-32: Thomas Pieters, -7, $162,500

T-32: David Puig, -7, $162,500

T-32: Richard Bland, -7, $162,500

T-36: Lee Westwood, -6, $147,500

T-36: Carlos Ortiz, -6, $147,500

T-36: Graeme McDowell, -6, $147,500

39: Paul Casey, -4, $142,500

T-40: Scott Vincent, -3, $138,750

T-40: Branden Grace, -3, $138,750

42: Matt Jones, -2, $135,000

43: Jediah Morgan, -1, $132,500

T-44: Matthew Wolff, E, $128,750

T-44: Eugenio Chacarra, E, $128,750

46: Martin Kaymer, +7, $125,000

47: Sihwan Kim, +14, $122,500

WD: Sam Horsfield: $80,000

ALT: Laurie Canter: $40,000

1: 4 Aces (Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Pat Perez, Peter Uihlein), -47, $3,000,000

2: RangeGoats (Bubba Watson, Harold Varner III, Talor Gooch, Thomas Pieters), -46, $1,500,000

3: Stinger (Charl Schwartzel, Louis Oosthuizen, Dean Burmester, Brendan Grace), -44, $500,000

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1: Brooks Koepka, -15, $4,000,000

2: Sebastian Munoz, -14, $2,125,000

T-3: Patrick Reed, -12, $1,275,000

T-3: Dean Burmester, -12, $1,275,000

T-5: Mito Pereira, -11, $887,500

T-5: Matthew Wolff, -11, $887,500

7: Dustin Johnson, -10, $675,000

T-8: Peter Uihlein, -9, $588,333

T-8: Carlos Ortiz, -9, $588,333

T-8: Sam Horsfield, -9, $588,333

T-11: Henrik Stenson, -8, $374,000

T-11: Richard Bland, -8, $374,000

T-11: Jason Kokrak – $374,000

T-11: Cameron Tringale, -8, $374,000

T-11: Laurie Canter, -8, $374,000

T-16: Lee Westwood, -7, $216,333

T-16: Charl Schwartzel, -7, $216,333

T-16: Harold Varner III, -7, $216,333

T-16: Thomas Pieters, -7, $216,333

T-16: Talor Gooch, -7, $216,333

T-16: Bryson DeChambeau, -7, $216,333

T-22: Kevin Na, -6, $169,000

T-22: Branden Grace, -6, $169,000

T-22: Scott Vincent, -6, $169,000

T-22: David Puig, -6, $169,000

T-26: Paul Casey, -5, $159,000

T-26: Charles Howell III, -5, $159,000

T-26: Marc Leishman, -5, $159,000

T-26: Cameron Smith, -5, $159,000

T-26: Abraham Ancer, -5, $159,000

T-26: Jediah Morgan, -5, $159,000

T-32: Graeme McDowell, -4, $149,000

T-32: Pat Perez, -4, $149,000

T-32: Danny Lee, -4, $149,000

T-32: Joaquin Niemann, -4, $149,000

T-36: Brendan Steele, -3, $141,000

T-36: Bernd Wiesberger, -3, $141,000

T-36: Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra, -3, $141,000

T-36: James Piot, -3, $141,000

40: Bubba Watson, -1, $136,000

T-41: Phil Mickelson, E, $132,000

T-41: Louis Oosthuizen, E, $132,000

T-41: Andy Ogletree, E, $132,000

44: Ian Poulter, +1, $128,000

45: Sergio Garcia, +1, $126,000

T-46: Matt Jones, +4, $123,000

T-46: Chase Koepka, +4, $123,000

48: Sihwan Kim, +13, $120,000

LIV Golf Orlando final team leaderboard

1: Torque GC (Niemann, Munoz, Pereira, Puig), -36, $3,000,000

2: Smash GC (B Koepka, C Koepka, Kokrak, Wolff), -35, $1,500,000

3: 4 Aces GC (Johnson, Reed, Perez, Uihlein), -34, $500,000

LIV Golf Tucson final individual leaderboard

1: Danny Lee, -9, $4,000,000

T-2: Carlos Ortiz, -9, $1,558,333.33

T-2: Brendan Steele, -9, $1,558,333.33

T-2: Louis Oosthuizen, -9, $1,558,333.33

5: Charles Howell III, -8, $975,000

T-6: Mito Pereira, -7, $670,000

T-6: Matt Jones, -7, $670,000

T-6: Kevin Na, -7, $670,000

T-6: Sergio Garcia, -7, $670,000

T-10: Peter Uihlein, -6, $516,666.67

T-10: Branden Grace, -6, $516,666.67

T-10: Matt Wolff, -6, $516,666.67

T-13: Dustin Johnson, -5, $270,400

T-13: Talor Gooch, -5, $270,400

T-13: Pat Perez, -5, $270,400

T-13: Cameron Tringale, -5, $270,400

T-13: Marc Leishman, -5, $270,400

T-18: Patrick Reed, -4, $223,000

T-18: Sam Horsfield, -4, $223,000

T-20: Scott Vincent, -3, $180,500

T-20: David Puig, -3, $180,500

T-20: Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra, -3, $180,500

T-20: Bubba Watson, -3, $180,500

T-24: Richard Bland, -2, $163,000

T-24: Cameron Smith, -2, $163,000

T-24: Harold Varner III, -2, $163,000

T-24: Abraham Ancer, -2, $163,000

T-24: Paul Casey, -2, $163,000

T-24: Brooks Koepha, -2, $163,000

T-30: Laurie Canter, -1, $154,000

T-30: Anirban Lahiri, -1, $154,000

T-30: Phil Mickelson, -1, $154,000

T-33: Dean Burmester, E, $148,000

T-33: Thomas Pieters, E, $148,000

T-33: Ian Poulter, E, $148,000

T-36: Bernd Wiesberger, +1, $140,000

T-36: Joaquin Niemann, +1 $140,000

T-36: Jason Kokrak, +1, $140,000

T-36: Chase Koepha, +1, $140,000

T-36: Sebastian Munoz, +1, $140,000

41: Graeme McDowell, +2, $134,000

42: Henrik Stenson, +3, $132,000

43: Lee Westwood, +5, $130,000

T-44: Bryson DeChambeau, +7, $127,000

T-44: James Piot, +7, $127,000

46: Charl Schwartzel, +8, $124,000

47: Jediah Morgan, +9, $122,000

48: Sihwan Kim, +19, $120,000

LIV Golf Tucson final team leaderboard

1: Fireballs GC (Ortiz, Ancer, Garcia, Lopez-Chacarra), $3,000,000

2: 4Aces GC (Reed, Johnson, Uihlein, Perez), $1,500,000

3: Iron Heads GC (Vincent, Lee, Na, Kim), $500,000

1: Charles Howell III, -16, $4,000,000

2: Peter Uihlein, -12, $2,125,000

3: Branden Grace, -10, $1,500,000

4: Paul Casey, -7, $1,050,000

T-5: Cameron Smith, -6, $887,500

T-5: Brendan Steele, -6, $887,500

T-7: Pat Perez, -5, $610,000

T-7: Sebastian Munoz, -5, $610,000

T-7: Matthew Wolff, -5, $610,000

T-7: Carlos Ortiz, 5 under: $610,000

T-11: Joaquin Niemann, -4, $405,000

T-11: Ian Poulter, -4, $405,000

T-11: Graeme McDowell, -4, $405,000

T-11: Talor Gooch, -4, $405,000

T-15: Scott Vincent, -3, $237,000

T-15: Mito Pereira, -3, $237,000

T-15: Abraham Ancer, -3, $237,000

T-15: Marc Leishman, -3, $237,000

19: Jason Kokrak, -2: $220,000

T-20: Dean Burmester, -1, $184,000

T-20: Kevin Na, -1, $184,000

T-20: Cameron Tringale, -1, $184,000

T-23: Sergio Garcia, E, $167,000

T-23: Henrik Stenson, E, $167,000

T-23: Matt Jones, E, $167,000

T-23: Bryson DeChambeau, E, $167,000

T-27: Brooks Koepka, +1, $158,000

T-27: Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra, +1, $158,000

T-27: Harold Varner III, +1, $158,000

T-27: Richard Bland, +1, $158,000

T-27: Phil Mickelson, +1, $158,000

T-32: Anirban Lahiri, +2, $151,000

T-32: Thomas Pieters, +2, $151,000

34: Danny Lee, +3, $148,000

T-35: Charl Schwartzel, +4, $144,000

T-35: Dustin Johnson, +4, $144,000

T-35: James Piot, +4, $144,000

T-38: David Puig, +5, $139,000

T-38: Patrick Reed, +5, $139,000

40: Bubba Watson, +6, $136,000

T-41: Lee Westwood, +8, $133,000

T-41: Louis Oosthuizen, +8, $133,000

43: Jediah Morgan, +9, $130,000

T-44: Bernd Wiesberger, +11, $127,000

T-44: Sam Horsfield, +11, $127,000

46: Laurie Canter, +12, $124,000

47: Chase Koepka,+15, $122,000

48: Sihwan Kim, +23, $120,000

1: Crushers GC (Paul Casey, Bryson DeChambeau, Charles Howell III, Anirban Lahiri), -10, $3,000,000

2: 4 Aces GC (Dustin Johnson, Pat Perez, Patrick Reed, Peter Uihlein), -7, $1,500,000

3: Torque GC (Joaquin Niemann, Sebastian Munoz, Mito Pereira, David Puig), -5, $500,000

LIV Golf 2022 individual winnings

LIV Golf’s tournaments saw 68 different players take part with 52 of them earning more than $1m. Former World No.1 Dustin Johnson dominated the on-course earnings, surpassing $35m having sealed the Individual Championship and Team Championship bonuses.

DJ was a cumulative 63-under-par for the seven individual LIV events played (21 rounds) with a win, two 3rd-place finishes, a 4th, 6th, 8th, and T15th.

The two-time Major champion also captained 4Aces GC to Team Championship success. Johnson Talor Gooch, Patrick Reed and Pat Perez received an additional $16m to split between them ($4m each) for their win in Miami.

Branden Grace, who won the second event in Portland, banked more than $16m having pocketed an $8m bonus for finishing second in the Individual Championship, while Peter Uihlein made more than $12m having received an extra $4m for his third-place finish.

Patrick Reed made $1.5m per event, earning more than $12m, while Open champion Cameron Smith, took home more than $7m. Henrik Stenson, who was removed as Europe’s Ryder Cup captain for breaching his agreement to join LIV, earned more than $5.5m.

Andy Ogletree, whose sole LIV appearance came in the inaugural event in London, propped up the list but still earned $120,000 for finishing last at Centurion Club having shot a woeful 24-over-par for his three rounds.

LIV Golf 2022 Total Individual Winnings

1. Dustin Johnson – $35,637,767*

2. Branden Grace – $16,634,666**

3. Peter Uihlein – $12,814,786***

4. Patrick Reed – $12,210,714 

5. Talor Gooch – $10,374,500 

6. Brooks Koepka – $8,276,100 

7. Charl Schwartzel – $8,135,000 

8. Pat Perez – $8,023,500 

9. Cam Smith – $7,378,500 

10. Eugenio Chacarra – $6,932,000 

11. Carlos Ortiz – $6,135,314 

12. Sergio Garcia – $6,128,786 

13. Henrik Stenson – $5,566,000 

14. Louis Oosthuizen – $5,395,167 

15. Joaquin Niemann – $4,524,286 

16. Matthew Wolff – $4,226,167 

17. Paul Casey – $4,543,367 

18. Hennie du Plessis – $4,530,000 

19. Abraham Ancer – $4,445,500 

20. Chase Koepka – $4,328,964 

21. Lee Westwood – $4,272,914 

22. Anirban Lahiri – $4,226,000 

23. Jason Kokrak – $3,959,500 

24. Richard Bland – $3,545,833 

25. Sam Horsfield – $3,534,000 

26. Bryson DeChambeau – $3,511,750 

27. Matt Jones – $3,404,700 

28. Wade Ormsby – $3,069,500 

29. Ian Poulter – $3,003,333 

30. Charles Howell III – $2,995,333 

31. Marc Leishman – $2,968,000 

32. Laurie Canter – $2,906,950 

33. Sihwan Kim – $2,382,000 

34. Graeme McDowell – $2,373,381

35. James Piot – $1,936,000 

36. Kevin Na – $1,914,286 

37. Martin Kaymer – $1,911,800 

38. PhacharaKhongwatmai – $1,858,333 

39. Bernd Wiesberger – $1,843,500 

40. Phil Mickelson – $1,825,350 

41. Turk Pettit – $1,691,000 

42. Justin Harding – $1,319,167 

43. Scott Vincent – $1,498,700 

44. Harold Varner III – $1,457,500 

45. Jinichiro Kozuma – $1,205,000 

46. SadomKaewkanjana – $1,312,286 

47. Jediah Morgan – $1,395,000 

48. Adrian Otaegui – $1,294,500 

49. Hudson Swafford – $1,241,000 

50. Shaun Norris – $1,006,000 

51. Cameron Tringale – $1,091,200 

52. Shergo Al Kurdi – $1,044,000 

53. Travis Smyth – $846,000 

54. Hideto Tanihara – $752,600 

55. Oliver Bekker – $737,500 

56. Ryosuke Kinoshita – $624,000 

57. Yuki Inamori – $501,000 

58. David Puig – $405,000 

59. Ian Snyman – $316,000 

60. Pablo Larrazabal – $315,000 

61. Blake Windred – $263,000  

62. Itthipat Buranatanyarat – $249,000 

63. JC Ritchie – $226,000 

64. Viraj Madappa – $154,000 

65. Kevin Yuan – $146,000 

66. Oliver Fisher – $136,000 

67. Ratchanon Chantananuwat – $136,000 

68. Andy Ogletree – $120,000   

*Includes $18million bonus for winning individual standings  **Includes $8million bonus for finishing second in individual standings  ***Includes $4million bonus for finishing third in individual standings 

LIV Golf 2022 Total Team Winnings

Players listed are those currently playing for the team. Some players have changed during the season.

• 4 Aces GC (Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Talor Gooch, Pat Perez): $28,125,000

2. Smash GC (Brooks Koepka, Chase Koepka, Peter Uihlein, Jason Kokrak): $11,500,000

3. Fireballs GC (Sergio Garcia, Abraham Ancer, Carlos Ortiz, Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra): $9,500,000

4. Stinger GC (Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Branden Grace, Hennie du Plessis): $8,500,000

5. Punch GC (Cameron Smith, Mark Leishman, Wade Ormsby, Matt Jones): $8,250,000

6. Crushers GC (Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey, Charles Howell III, Anirban Lahiri): $8,000,000

7. Majesticks GC (Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson, Sam Horsfield): $5,500,000

8. Cleeks GC (Shergo Al Kurdi, Richard Bland, Graeme McDowell, Laurie Canter): $3,500,000

9. Hy Flyers GC (Phil Mickelson, Bernd Wiesberger, Matthew Wolff, Cameron Tringale): $1,250,000

10=. Niblicks GC (Harold Varner III, Hudson Swafford, James Piot, Turk Pettit) – $1million

10=. Iron Heads GC (Kevin Na, Sadom Kaewkanjana, Phachara Khongwatmai, Sihwan Kim) – $1million

10=. Torque GC (Joaquin Niemann, Scott Vincent, Adrian Otaegui, Jed Morgan) – $1million

Standings and earnings from every 2022 LIV event

1. 4 Aces GC (Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Pat Perez, Talor Gooch) – $16million/$4million each 2. Punch GC (Cam Smith, Marc Leishman, Matt Jones, Wade Ormsby) – $8million/$2million each 3. Smash GC (Brooks Koepka, Peter Uihlein, Chase Koepka, Jason Kokrak) – $6million/$1.5million each 4. Stinger GC (Louis Oosthuizen, Branden Grace, Charl Schwartzel, Hennie du Plessis) – $4million/$1million each

Cleeks GC (Shergo Al Kurdi, Laurie Canter, Graeme McDowell, Richard Bland) – $3million/$750,000 each Crushers GC (Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey, Charles Howell III, Anirban Lahiri) – $3million/$750,000 each Fireballs GC (Sergio Garcia, Carlos Ortiz, Eugenio Chacarra, Abraham Ancer) – $3million/$750,000 each Majesticks GC (Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood, Henrik Stenson, Sam Horsfield) – $3million/$750,000 each

Niblicks GC (Harold Varner III, Hudson Swafford, James Piot, Turk Pettit) – $1million/$250,000 Iron Heads GC (Kevin Na, Sadom Kaewkanjana, Phachara Khongwatmai, Sihwan Kim) – $1million/$250,000 Hy Flyers GC (Phil Mickelson, Bernd Wiesberger, Matt Wolff, Cameron Tringale) – $1million/$250,000 Torque GC (Joaquin Niemann, Scott Vincent, Adrian Otaegui, Jed Morgan) – $1million/$250,000

LIV Golf Invitational Jeddah final individual leaderboard

1: Brooks Koepka, -12, $4,000,000

T-2: Peter Uihlein, -12, $2,125,000

T-3: Joaquin Niemann, -11, $1,275,000

T-3: Sergio Garcia -11, $1,275,000

T-5: Matthew Wolff, -10, $816,666.67

T-5: Dustin Johnson, -10,$816,666.67

T-5: Paul Casey, -10, $816,666.67

T-8: Bernd Wiesberger, -9, $602,500

T-8: Charl Schwartzel, -9, $602,500

T-10: Anirban Lahiri, -8, $550,000

T-10: Abraham Ancer, -8, $550,000

T-12: Talor Gooch, -7, $289,714.28

T-12: Jediah Morgan, -7, $289,714.28

T-12: Chase Koepka, -7, $289,714.28

T-12: Lee Westwood, -7, $289,714.28

T-12: Graeme McDowell, -7, $289,714.28

T-12: Patrick Reed, -7, $289,714.28

T-12: Carlos Ortiz, -7, $289,714.28

T-19: Charles Howell III, -6, $210,000

T-19: Sihwan Kim, -6, $210,000

T-21: Bryson DeChambeau, -5, $172,500

T-21: Cameron Smith, -5, $172,500

T-21: Jason Kokrak, -5, $172,500

T-21: James Piot, -5, $172,500

T-25: Phachara Khongwatmai, -4, $164,000

T-25: Richard Bland, -4, $164,000

T-25: Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra, -4, $164,000

T-28: Branden Grace, -3, $156,000

T-28: Sam Horsfield, -3, $156,000

T-28: Laurie Canter, -3, $156,000

T-28: Louis Oosthuizen, -3, $156,000

T-28: Ian Poulter, -3, $156,000

T-33: Harold Varner III, -2, $149,000

T-33: Hideto Tanihara, -2, $149,000

T-35: Marc Leishman, -1, $144,000

T-35: Wade Ormsby , -1, $144,000

T-35: Phil Mickelson, -1, $144,000

T-38: Henrik Stenson, +1, $138,000

T-38: Sadom Kaewkanjana, +1, $138,000

T-38: Turk Pettit, +1, $138,000

T-41: Hudson Swafford, +2, $131,000

T-41: Cameron Tringale, +2, $131,000

T-41: Scott Vincent , +2, $131,000

T-41: Shaun Norris, +2, $131,000

45: Matt Jones, +3, $126,000

46: Pat Perez, +6, $124,000

47=: Martin Kaymer, WD, $122,000

47=: Kevin Na, WD, $122,000

LIV Golf Invitational Jeddah final team leaderboard

1: Smash GC (Brooks Koepka, Chase Koepka Peter Uihlein, Jason Kokrak), $3,000,000

2: Fireballs GC (Sergio Garcia, Abraham Ancer, Carlos Ortiz, Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra), $1,500,000

T-3: Crushers GC (Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey, Anirban Lahiri, Charles Howell III), $250,000

T-3: 4 Aces GC (Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Talor Gooch, Pat Perez), $250,000

LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok final individual leaderboard

1: Eugenio Chacarra, -19, $4,000,000

2: Patrick Reed, -16, $2,125,000

T-3: Paul Casey, -15, $1,175,000

T-3: Richard Bland, -15, $1,175,000

T-3: Sihwan Kim, -15, $1,175,000

T-6: James Piot, -14, $737,500

T-6: Harold Varner III, -14, $737,500

T-8: Charles Howell III, -13, $602,500

T-8: Brooks Koepka, -13, $602,500

T-10: Abraham Ancer, -11, $477,500

T-10: Laurie Canter, -11, $477,500

T-10: Ian Poulter, -11, $477,500

T-10: Marc Leishman, -11, $477,500

14: Bryson DeChambeau, -10, $270,000

T-15: Matt Jones, -9, $233,600

T-15: Dustin Johnson, -9, $233,600

T-15: Phil Mickelson, -9, $233,600

T-15: Carlos Ortiz, -9, $233,600

T-15: Lee Westwood, -9, $233,600

T-20: Joaquin Niemann, -8, $174,285

T-20: Sergio Garcia, -8, $174,285

T-20: Sadom Kaewkaniana, -8, $174,285

T-20: Peter Uihlein, -8, $174,285

T-20: Talor Gooch, -8, $174,285

T-20: Jediah Morgan, -8, $174,285

T-20: Kevin Na, -8, $174,285

T-27: Charl Schwartzel, -7, $157,000

T-27: Phachara Khongwatmai, -7, $157,000

T-27: Shaun Norris, -7, $157,000

T-27: Jason Kokrak, -7, $157,000

T-27: Turk Pettit, -7, $157,000

T-27: Wade Ormsby, -7, $157,000

T-33: Chase Koepka, -6, $144,000

T-33: Sam Horsfield, -6, $144,000

T-33: Bernd Wiesberger, -6, $144,000

T-33: Henrik Stenson, -6, $144,000

T-33: Martin Kaymer, -6, $144,000

T-33: Hudson Swafford, -6, $144,000

T-33: Cameron Tringale, -6, $144,000

40: Pat Perez, -5, $136,000

T-41: Anirban Lahiri, -4, $131,000

T-41: Cameron Smith, -4, $131,000

T-41: Graeme McDowell, -4, $131,000

T-41: Matthew Wolff, -4, $131,000

T-45: Louis Oosthuizen, E, $125,000

T-45: Scott Vincent, E, $125,000

47: Hideto Tanihara, +1, $122,000

48: Branden Grace, WD, $120,000

LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok final team leaderboard

1: Fireballs (Sergio Garcia, Abraham Ancer, Carlos Ortiz, Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra), $3,000,000, -45

2: Crushers (Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey, Charles Howell III, Anirban Lahiri) $1,500,000, -38

3: Cleeks (Richard Bland, Laurie Canter, Martin Kaymer, Graeme McDowell), $500,000, -37

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LIV Golf Invitational Chicago final individual leaderboard

1: Cameron Smith, -16, $4,000,000

T-2: Peter Uihlein, -13, $1,812,500

T-2: Dustin Johnson, -13, $1,812,500

T-4: Sergio Garcia, -12, $1,012,500

T-4: Joaquin Niemann, -12, $1,012,500

T-6: Louis Oosthuizen, -7, $737,500

T-6: Charl Schwartzel, -7, $737,500

T-8: Phil Mickelson, -6, $576,250

T-8: Bryson DeChambeau, -6, $576,250

T-8: Chase Koepka, -6, $576,250

T-8: Laurie Canter, -6, $576,250

T-12: Lee Westwood, -5, $332,500

T-12: Scott Vincent, -5, $332,500

T-12: Patrick Reed, -5, $332,500

T-12: Cameron Tringale, -5, $332,500

T-16: Matt Jones, -4, $240,000

T-16: Matthew Wolff, -4, $240,000

T-18: Charles Howell III, -3, $215,333

T-18: Richard Bland, -3, $215,333

T-18: Brendan Grace, -3, $215,333

T-21: Brooks Koepka, -2, $167,000

T-21: Paul Casey, -2, $167,000

T-21: Abraham Ancer, -2, $167,000

T-21: Harold Varner III, -2, $167,000

T-21: Henrik Stenson, -2, $167,000

T-21: Anirban Lahiri, -2, $167,000

T-21: Jason Kokrak, -2, $167,000

T-21: Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra, -2, $167,000

T-29: Ian Poulter, -1, $157,000

T-29: James Piot, -1, $157,000

T-31: Phachara Khongwatmai, E, $154,000

T-31: Pat Perez, E, $154,000

T-31: Carlos Ortiz, E, $154,000

34: Kevin Na, +1, $148,000

T-35: Talor Gooch, +2, $145,000

T-35: Bernd Wiesberger, +2, $145,000

T-37: Sadom Kaekwanjana, +4, $137,000

T-37: Martin Kaymer, +4, $137,000

T-37: Graeme McDowell, +4, $137,000

T-37: Wade Ormsby, +4, $137,000

T-37: David Puig, +4, $137,000

T-37: Jediah Morgan, +4, $137,000

43: Sam Horsfield, +5 ,  $130,000

T-44: Marc Leishman, +6, $124,000

T-44: Hudson Swafford, +6, $124,000

T-44: Shaun Norris, +6, $124,000

T-44: Sihwan Kim, +6, $124,000

T-44: Turk Pettit, +6, $124,000

LIV Golf Invitational Chicago final team leaderboard

1: 4 Aces (Dustin Johnson, Talor Gooch, Pat Perez, Patrick Reed), $3,000,000

2: Smash (Brooks Koepka, Chase Koepka, Peter Uihlein, Jason Kokrak), $1,500,000

T-3: Hy Flyers (Bernd Wiesberger, Phil Mickelson, Matthew Wolff, Cameron Tringale), $250,000

T-3: Punch (Matt Jones, Cameron Smith, Wade Ormsby, Marc Leishman), $250,000

LIV Golf Invitational Boston final individual leaderboard

1: Dustin Johnson, -15, $4,000,000

T-2: Joaquin Niemann, -15, $1,812,500

T-2: Anirban Lahiri, -15, $1,812,500

T-4: Cameron Smith, -14, $1,012,750

T-4: Lee Westwood, -14, $1,012,750

6: Talor Gooch, -13, $800,000

7: Jason Kokrak, -12, $675,000

8: Abraham Ancer, -11, $625,000

T-9: Louis Oosthuizen, -10 $560,000

T-9: Kevin Na, -10 $560,000

T-9: Sergio Garcia, -10 $560,000

12: Branden Grace, -9, $450,000

T-13: Matthew Wolff, -8, $315,000

T-13: Sadom Kaewkanjana, -8, $315,000

T-15: Pat Perez, -7, $240,667

T-15: Bernd Wiesberger, -7, $240,667

T-15: Charles Howell III, -7, $240,667

T-18: Ian Poulter, -6, $215,333

T-18: Richard Bland, -6, $215,333

T-18: Bryson DeChambeau, -6, $215,333

T-21: Martin Kaymer, -5, $171,200

T-21: Laurie Canter, -5, $171,200

T-21: Paul Casey, -5, $171,200

T-21: Scott Vincent, -5, $171,200

T-21: Cameron Tringale, -5, $171,200

T-26: Matt Jones, -4, $161,000

T-26: Carlos Ortiz, -4, $161,000

T-26: Brooks Koepka, -4, $161,000

T-26: Jediah Morgan, -4, $161,000

T-30: Harold Varner III, -3, $152,000

T-30: Phachara Khongwatmai, -3, $152,000

T-30: Chase Koepka, -3, $152,000

T-30: Marc Leishman, -3, $152,000

T-30: Patrick Reed, -3, $152,000

T-35: Charl Schwartzel, -2, $144,000

T-35: Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra, -2, $144,000

T-35: Shergo Al Kurdi, -2, $144,000

38: Sam Horsfield, -1, $140,000

39: Graeme McDowell, E, $138,000

T-40: Phil Mickelson, +2, $134,000

T-40: Hudson Swafford, +2, $134,000

T-40: Shaun Norris, +2, $134,000

43: Wade Ormsby, +4, $130,000

T-44: Peter Uihlein, +5, $127,000

T-44: Adrian Otaegui, +5, $127,000

46: Turk Pettit, +6, $124,000

47: James Piot, +13, $122,000

48: Sihwan Kim, +16, $120,000

LIV Golf Invitational Boston final team leaderboard

1: 4 Aces GC (Talor Gooch, Dustin Johnson, Pat Perez, Patrick Reed) $3,000,000

2: Crushers GC (Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey, Charles Howell III, Anirban Lahiri), $1,500,000

3: Majesticks GC (Sam Horsfield, Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood, Shergo Al Kurdi), $500,000

LIV Golf Invitational Bedminster final individual leaderboard

1: Henrik Stenson, -11, $4,000,000

T-2: Matthew Wolff, -9, $1,812,500

T-2: Dustin Johnson, -9, $1,812,500

4: Carlos Ortiz, -8, $1,050,000

5: Patrick Reed, -7, $975,000

T-6: Paul Casey, -4, $648,000

T-6: Sergio Garcia, -4, $648,000

T-6: Turk Pettit, -4, $648,000

T-6: Lee Westwood, -4, $648,000

T-6: Talor Gooch, -4, $648,000

T-11: Brooks Koepka, -3, $495,000

T-11: Martin Kaymer, -3, $495,000

T-13: Branden Grace, -2, $293,333

T-13: Ian Poulter, -2, $293,333

T-13: Phachara Khongwatmai, -2, $293,333

T-16: Chase Koepka, -1, $236,000

T-16: Sam Horsfield, -1, $236,000

18: Charl Schwartzel, E, $226,000

T-19: Matt Jones, +1, $200,000

T-19: Louis Oosthuizen, +1, $200,000

T-19: Justin Harding, +1, $200,000

22: Travis Smyth, +2, $172,000

T-23: Shaun Norris, +3, $168,000

T-23: Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra, +3, $168,000

T-23: Peter Uihlein, +3, $168,000

T-26: Laurie Canter, +4, $160,000

T-26: James Piot, +4, $160,000

T-26: Jinichiro Kozuma, +4, $160,000

T-26: Jason Kokrak, +4, $160,000

T-26: Charles Howell III, +4, $160,000

T-31: Hudson Swafford, +5, $151,000

T-31: Bryson DeChambeau, +5, $151,000

T-31: Pat Perez, +5, $151,000

T-31: Bernd Wiesberger, +5, $151,000

35: Phil Mickelson, +6, $146,000

T-36: Sadom Kaewkanjana, +7, $141,000

T-36: Graeme McDowell, +7, $141,000

T-36: Ryosuke Kinoshita, +7, $141,000

T-36: Kevin Na, +7, $141,000

T-40: Abraham Ancer, +8, $135,000

T-40: Richard Bland, +8, $135,000

T-42: David Puig, +9, Amateur

T-42: Scott Vincent, +9, $132,000

T-44: Hennie DuPlessis, +10, $127,000

T-44: Yuki Inamori, +10, $127,000

46: Wade Orsmby, +11, $124,000

47: Hideto Tanihara, +12, $122,000

48: Jediah Morgan, +16, $120,000

LIV Golf Invitational Bedminster final team leaderboard

1: 4 Aces GC (Johnson, Gooch, Perez, Reed), -25, $3,000,000

2: Majesticks GC (Horsfield, Poulter, Westwood, Stenson), -17, $1,500,000

3: Fireballs GC (Garcia, Ancer, Ortiz, Lopez), -12, $500,000

LIV Golf Invitational Portland final individual leaderboard

1: Branden Grace, -13, $4,000,000

2: Carlos Ortiz, -11, $2,125,000

T-3: Patrick Reed, -9, $1,275,000

T-3: Dustin Johnson, -9, $1,275,000

5: Louis Oosthuizen, -7, $975,000

6: Jinichiro Kozuma, -6, $800,000

7: Talor Gooch, -4, $675,000

T-8: Matthew Wolff, -3, $602,500

T-8: Justin Harding, -3, $602,500

10: Bryson DeChambeau, -2. $560,000

T-11: Abraham Ancer, -1, $374,000

T-11: Yuki Inamori, -1, $374,000

T-11: Kevin Na, -1, $374,000

T-11: Sam Horsfield, -1, $374,000

T-11: Sihwan Kim, -1, $374,000

T-16: Lee Westwood, E, $223,600

T-16: Hideto Tanihara, E, $223,600

T-16: Matt Jones, E, $223,600

T-16: Martin Kaymer, E, $223,600

T-16: Brooks Koepka, E, $223,600

21: Adrian Otaegui, +1, $180,000

22: James Piot, +2, $172,000

T-23: Chase Koepka, +3, $168,000

T-23: Ryosuke Kinoshita, +3, $168,000

T-23: Scott Vincent, +3, $168,000

26: Sergio Garcia, +4, $164,000

T-27: Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra, +5, $161,000

T-27: Richard Bland, +5, $161,000

T-29: Phachara Khongwatmai, +6, $153,000

T-29: Ian Snyman, +6, $153,000

T-29: Hudson Swafford, +6, $153,000

T-29: Travis Smyth, +6, $153,000

T-29: Hennie Du Plessis, +6, $153,000

T-29: Pat Perez, +6, $153,000

T-35: Graeme McDowell, +7, $145,000

T-35: Wade Ormsby, +7, $145,000

T-37: Bernd Wiesberger, +8, $140,000

T-37: Laurie Canter, +8. $140,000

T-37: Charl Schwartzel, +8, $140,000

T-40: Sadom Kaewkanjana, +10, $133,000

T-40: Ian Poulter, +10, $133,000

T-40: Phil Mickelson, +10, $133,000

T-40: Peter Uihlein, +10, $133,000

T-44: Itthipat Buranatanyanrat, +11, $127,000

T-44: Blake Windred, +11, $127,000

46: Turk Pettit, +16, $124,000

47: Shaun Norris, +17, $122,000

48: Jediah Morgan, +21, $120,000

LIV Golf Invitational Portland final team leaderboard

1: 4 Aces GC (Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Talor Gooch, Pat Perez), -23, $3,000,000

2: Stinger GC (Branden Grace, Hennie Du Plessis, Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel), -16, $1,500,000

3: Fireballs GC (Carlos Ortiz, Abraham Ancer, Sergio Garcia, Eugenio Lopez-Charcarra), -12, $500,000

LIV Golf Invitational London final individual leaderboard

1: Charl Schwartzel, -7, $4,000,000

2: Hennie Du Plessis, -6, $2,125,000

T-3: Branden Grace, -5, $1,500,000

T-3: Peter Uihlein, -5, $1,500,000

5: Sam Horsfield, -3, $975,000

T-6: Oliver Bekker, -2 $737,500

T-6: Adrian Otaegui, -2, $737,500

8: Dustin Johnson, -1, $625,000

9: Talor Gooch, E, $580,000

T-10: Louis Oosthuizen, +1, $516,667

T-10: Graeme McDowell, +1, $516,667

T-10: Justin Harding, +1, $516,667

T-13: Ryosuke Kinoshita, +2, $315,000

T-13: Pablo Larrazabal, +2, $315,000

T-15: Jinichiro Kozuma, +3, $245,000

T-15: Martin Kaymer, +3, $240,000

T-17: Richard Bland, +4, $226,000

T-17, J.C. Ritchie, +4, $226,000

T-17: Laurie Canter, +4, $226,000

T-20: Ian Poulter, +5, $190,000

T-20: Scott Vincent, +5, $190,000

T-22: Shaun Norris, +6, $170,000

T-22: Wade Ormsby, +6, $170,000

T-22: Sergio Garcia, +6, $170,000

T-25: James Piot, +7, $163,000

T-25: Matt Jones, +7, $163,000

T25: Ian Snyman, +7, $163,000

T-25: Phachara Khongwatmai, +7, $163,000

29: Lee Westwood, +8, $158,000

T-30: Hudson Swafford, +9, $154,000

T-30: Viraj Madappa, +9, $154,000

T-30: Jediah Morgan, +9, $154,000

T-33: Phil Mickelson, +10, $146,000

T-33: Kevin Yuan, +10, $146,000

T-33: Chase Koepka, +10, $146,000

T-38: Oliver Fisher, +11, $136,000

T-38: Blake Windred, +11, $136,000

T-38: David Puig, +11, $136,000

T-38: Hideto Tanihara, +11, $136,000

T-38: Ratchanon Chantananuwat, +11, $136,000

T-43: Bernd Wiesberger, +14, $129,000

T-43: Sihwan Kim, +14, $129,000

45: Turk Petit, +15, $126,000

46: Sadom Kaewkanjana, +17, $124,000

47: Itthipat Buranatanyarat, +23, $122,000

48: Andy Ogletree, +24, $120,000

LIV Golf Invitational London final team leaderboard

1: Stinger GC (Hennie Du Plessis, Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel) $3,000,000

2: Crushers GC (Phachara Khongwatmai, Travis Smyth, Richard Bland, Peter Uihlein) $1,500,000

3: Majesticks GC (Laurie Canter, Sam Horsfield, Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood) $500,000

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LIV Golf fees to players: How much do LIV Golfers get paid?

LIV Golf fees to players: Take a look at how much Jon Rahm, Cameron Smith, Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson et al were paid to join the rival league.

Want to know how much LIV Golf players have been paid?

Well, you've come to the right place. GolfMagic has taken a look at how much every golfer was allegedly paid to join the lucrative breakaway tour.

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Cameron Smith

• Date joined: 30 August 2022
• LIV Golf fee: $143m / £122m

Smith hasn't officially confirmed how much money he was paid by the breakaway when he bolted from the PGA Tour. 

The Guardian have claimed the true figure the 2022 Open champion commanded a fee of $143m. 

"I won't ignore that or say that wasn't a reason," Smith said of the money. "It was a business decision, an offer I couldn't ignore."

Bryson DeChambeau

• Date joined: 10 June 2022
• LIV Golf fee: $125m / £100m

DeChambeau signed a four-and-a-half year deal with LIV in June 2022. 

Once again, the golfer declined to go into details of the financial arrangement when he joined, saying: "A lot of it was up front, which was great."

• Date joined: 8 December 2023
• LIV Golf fee: $600m / £476m

Rahm, unsurprisingly, has also refused to say how much money he was paid by LIV when he signed a five-year contract.

The Spaniard claimed in an interview shortly after joining he finds it amusing that people speculate on the real figure. 

"I can't comment on any of that, nor do I want to," Rahm said of the money. 

"It is private and it is going to stay private. Listen, it was a great offer. The money is great, it is wonderful."

Sergio Garcia

• Date joined: June 2022
• LIV Golf fee: $40m / £30m

Garcia was one of the first major champions to join LIV and has played in every tournament since its inception. 

The 2017 Masters champion has never publicly commented on his LIV Golf contract nor does he appear to ever want to discuss the topic. 

"I did it because I think this is the future of golf," Garcia explained of his decision to join LIV. 

Talor Gooch

• LIV Golf fee: $10-20m

Gooch signed a two-year contract with LIV in 2022 and has since gone on to win a mind-boggling amount of money. 

He was the circuit's individual champion for the 2023 campaign, which netted him an $18m bonus on top of his on-course earnings. 

In total finished the 2023 LIV Golf season $35.3m richer. His contract details are not public knowledge. 

Given other reported figures, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume his fee is in the $10-20m region. 

Tyrrell Hatton

• Date joined: 30 January 2024
• LIV Golf fee: $65m / £50m

Telegraph Sport claim Hatton's LIV Golf fee was $65m / £50m. 

Hatton, like those before him, did not comment on the money but he was up front about the cash by saying: "There is no point in lying."

Dustin Johnson

It has been claimed that Johnson's deal was worth an initial $125m, rising to a potential $150m. 

Johnson has been fairly straightforward with his decision to join LIV. 

"The decision to join LIV finally just came down to the offer that they made me," he said. 

"Someone offers anyone a job, doing the same thing they're already doing but less time at the office and they're gonna pay them more.

"Pretty sure you're gonna take it. And something's wrong with you if you didn't."

Brooks Koepka

• Date joined: 23 June 2022
• LIV Golf fee: $130m / £105m

Koepka confirmed on the BS w/ Jake Podcast the real reason he joined LIV was 'for the dough'. 

Confirming the nine-figure deal, Koepka said: "Look, I’ll be honest with you – I signed for the dough. 

"I'm 100 per cent behind that. I don't know if tomorrow I'll get in a car accident and never play golf again but my family is taken care of.

"That was a big thing for me, not doing it for anything else.

"Everybody else, they go to their 9-5, most of them don't like their 9-5 but they're doing it cos they get the pay cheque .

"That's the same thing as us. I enjoy playing golf, I enjoy winning – I'd say I'd do it for free because I love it that much, but at the same time you've got to take care of each other."

Graeme McDowell

• LIV Golf fee: $20-40m

The Northern Irishman was part of a contingent of ageing European Ryder Cup stars who joined LIV ahead of their first event at Centurion Club. 

McDowell was involved in a tense press conference in which he sought to defend his decision to join the Saudi Arabia-backed league. 

G-Mac later stated that he regretted taking part in that news conference. 

He hasn't said how much money he was paid by LIV, but it's assumed McDowell was paid in the region of $20-40m. 

"Of course it was about the money, of course it was," McDowell said in September 2023.  

"It didn't need saying. Of course that's what I was there for, it was a business decision."

Adrian Meronk

• Date joined: 30 January 2024 
• LIV Golf fee: $10m / £8m

Telegraph Sport have claimed Meronk agreed a $10m fee with LIV. 

Meronk told the publication he likely wouldn't have joined LIV had he not been 'snubbed' for a 2023 Ryder Cup pick. 

The 6ft 6ins golfer was largely expected to be named as a wildcard on the European team but captain Luke Donald overlooked him. 

Donald's decision was later vindicated, but Meronk was angry at the decision. 

"What happened with the Ryder Cup just opened my eyes as to how everything works," he said.

Phil Mickelson

• LIV Golf fee: $200m / £160m

Mickelson all-but confirmed his three-year contract was worth $200m when he spoke to reporters at his first news conference as a LIV player. 

Pressed on the alleged figure, Mickelson said: "I feel that contract agreements should be private."

He added: "Doesn't seem to be the case but it should be."

Joaquin Niemann

• Date joined: 30 August 2022
• LIV Golf fee: $100m / £80m

Niemann was named as LIV recruit in the second half of their inaugural campaign. 

The Chilean, who was a rising star on the PGA Tour, is said to have penned a $100m deal. 

Thomas Pieters

• Date joined: 18 February 2023

Pieters was a last-minute addition before the second season roster owing to an injury to American golfer Hudson Swafford. 

The Belgian told reporters that he had always had his eyes set on a move to LIV Golf given he never enjoyed life on the PGA Tour. 

It is said Pieters signed a $10m deal. 

Speaking about the move, he said: "Of course, I have done this with my family and our daughters at the forefront of our thinking."

Ian Poulter

• LIV Golf fee: $20-30m / £15-20m

Poulter got a bit frosty with one reporter when he was pressed on his signing-on fee. 

"It's none of your business," the Englishman previously said when he was quizzed on the figure. 

"But it wasn't what was reported. People love to exaggerate...just like catching fishes."

Patrick Reed

• Date joined: 11 June 2022
• LIV Golf fee: $50m / £40m

Reed became the ninth major champion to sign with the breakaway. 

In truth his LIV Golf fee is unknown but when he joined he was certainly one of the strongest players on the roster. 

With more than $37m in PGA Tour prize money earnings, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume his deal was worth north of $50m. 

He is, afterall, a Masters champion. 

Henrik Stenson

• Date joined: July 2022

The Swede was stripped of the European Ryder Cup captaincy for joining LIV for what was reported to be a $50m fee. 

At the time, an emotional Stenson posted a lengthy statement outlining his position. 

He wrote: "Unfortunately my decision to play in LIV events [means] it is not possible for me to continue in my role as Ryder Cup captain.

"This is despite me making specific arrangements with LIV golf, to ensure I could fulfil the obligations of the captaincy.

"While I disagree with this decision, for now it is a decision that I accept.

"Clearly a part of my decision to play in LIV golf events has been commercially driven but the format, schedule and calibre of player were also significant factors. I am committed to growing the game and using the game as a force for good."

Harold Varner III

• Date joined: 12 August 2023
• LIV Golf fee: $15m / £10m

When Varner joined LIV he was brutally honest in his reasons for doing so. 

"The opportunity to join LIV Golf is simply too good of a financial breakthrough for me to pass by," he said. 

Bubba Watson

• Date joined: 29 July 2022
• LIV Golf fee: $50m / £50m

Two-time Masters champion Watson is said to have commanded a $50m fee. 

Watson said he prayed about whether to make the leap. 

In 2024, Watson provided an insight into how the LIV Golf contracts are worked out. 

"They're not just throwing out money randomly," he said of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. 

"There is actually a formula of why so-and-so gets this.

"It's not just some made-up number, it's an actual real number for a reason.

"They might have added on 5 per cent, they might have added on 2 per cent - depending on who you are.

"They might have added 0.5 per cent for me. There's a formula out there that we have behind the scenes, it's not like: 'here's a cheque.'

"It's a real number for a reason."

Lee Westwood

Westwood has not divulged how much he was paid to join LIV. 

The Englishman, a former world number one, stated he would've been 'stupid' to reject LIV's offer. 

"I've had a longer career than most," Westwood said when he joined LIV. 

"It's my 29th season, but like you, if there's a pay increase, at my age, I'd be stupid not to take it."

He added: "It's competition, it's good, keeps everybody on their toes. Trying to achieve as much as they want to achieve.

"LIV is there, they've made the statement to try not be a threat.

"There are 14 events [from 2024], I don't see why the Tours can't co-exist. Competition is good.

"We've all played in Saudi already, we've been given releases to play there, this is no different, I'm educated on it.

"I've done in the past, we can play wherever we want.”

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Brendan Steele wins LIV Golf Adelaide tournament from fast-finishing Louis Oosthuizen

Individual Champion Brendan Steele of HyFlyers GC poses with the trophy after the final round of LIV Golf Adelaide at the Grange Golf Club on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Adelaide, Australia. (Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via AP)

Individual Champion Brendan Steele of HyFlyers GC kisses the trophy after the final round of LIV Golf Adelaide at the Grange Golf Club on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Adelaide, Australia. (Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via AP)

Brendan Steele of HyFlyers GC hits his shot from the third tee during the final round of LIV Golf Adelaide at the Grange Golf Club on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Adelaide, Australia. (Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via AP)

Brendan Steele of HyFlyers GC hits his shot from the first tee during the final round of LIV Golf Adelaide at the Grange Golf Club on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Adelaide, Australia. (Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via AP)

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ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Three-time PGA Tour winner Brendan Steele held off a fast finishing Louis Oosthuizen to win the LIV Golf Adelaide tournament at The Grange Golf Club by one stoke.

The 41-year-old Steele shot a final round 68 Sunday for a 54-hole total of 18-under 198 to earn his first victory since he won his second Safeway Open in 2017 on the PGA Tour.

Steele had a streak of five consecutive birdies early in the round, before some putting jitters appeared in his back nine to open the door for a fast finishing pack of challenges including Oosthuizen, and former previous Masters winners Charl Schwartzel (64) and Jon Rahm (64).

“Yeah, I was telling myself that I knew there was going to be hard moments today regardless of the result and that I just needed to get back in there and start playing with freedom again,” Steele said moments after winning.

“And, and I was able to hit some good shots after that and write the show.”

South Africa’s Oosthuizen shot 65 to finish second at 17-under 199, and had drawn within one stroke of Steele late in Sunday’s final round, only for the American to make some clutch pars in the final holes to clinch victory.

Oosthuizen’s compatriot Schwartzel and Rahm were among a group of five players at 16-under 200, with Joaquin Niemann (66), Andy Ogletree (65) and Dean Burgmester (67) in a tie for third.

Former world No.1 Rahm had an eagle and six birdies in his 8-under 64 but had left too much ground to catch up on Steele on the final day to capture his first title since joining the LlV tour in December.

Last year’s winner Talor Gooch shot 70 and finshed in a tie for 26th at 10-under.

Some of the LIV Golf’s biggest names were also off the pace this week, including Brooks Koepka (nine-under), Dustin Johnson (nine-under), Phil Mickelson (seven-under) and Sergio Garcia (six under).

Australian team Ripper GC, led by local favorite Cameron Smith, with Marc Leishman, Matt Jones and Lucas Herbert, won the teams format on the second playoff hole against the South African-based team, Stingers GC, to the delight of another large and boisterous crowd at The Grange course on Sunday.

The LIV tour remains in the Asia region next week for the May 3-5 Singapore event at the Sentosa Golf Club. Then there’s a month-long break before resuming in Houston from June 7-9.

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2024 LIV Golf Adelaide final results: Prize money payout, leaderboard and how much each golfer won

T he 2024 LIV Golf Adelaide final leaderboard is headed by winner Brendan Steele, who earned his LIV Golf win at The Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, Australia.

Steele won the tournament with a one-shot victory over Louis Oosthuizen on 18-under 198.

Five players finished tied for third place on 16-under total, including Jon Rahm , Andy Ogletree, Charl Schwartzel, Joaquin Niemann and the last tournament's winner, Dean Burmester.

Steele won the $4,000,000 winner's share of the $20,000,000 purse for the individual competition.

LIV Golf Adelaide recap notes

Steele earned no Official World Golf Ranking points with the win. The OWGR does not offer points to 54-hole events above the developmental level.

There are no cuts in LIV Golf events, with 54 players finishing the event in the fifth completed event of the season.

In the team competition, the Ripper team finished tied with Stinger, necessitating a playoff. In the playoff, Ripper won on the second playoff hole, with the four team members ( Cam Smith , Marc Leishman, Matt Jones and Lucas Herbert ) earning $3 million for the franchise. The Stinger earned $1.5 million by finishing in second, with the HyFlyers finishing third and earning $500,000.

The 2024 LIV Golf schedule continues next week with the LIV Golf Singapore event.

2024 LIV Golf Adelaide final leaderboard, results and prize money payouts

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Nfl draft: which pga tour and liv golf players would be drafted in the top 32, share this article.

The men’s professional golf season is picking up steam and features a unique team event in New Orleans this weekend, but let’s be real, chances are you’ll be following the NFL Draft this weekend on a second screen or at the very least your phone.

With the first round on Thursday night live from Detroit, I got to thinking … who would be in the top 32 picks if it were professional golfers and not college football players? How many LIV Golf players would feature? It’s tough to compare players across the various tours, and yes this is all very subjective, but let’s not let semantics get in the way of a little fun.

1st pick — Scottie Scheffler

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Do we really need to explain this one? Four wins in his last five starts, which includes his second Masters title in three years. He’s the undisputed world No. 1 and will be for quite some time it appears.

2nd pick — Ludvig Aberg

Ludvig Aberg reacts after making a birdie on the fifth hole during the third round of the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links on April 20, 2024 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

Two runner-up finishes and eight top 25s in 10 starts on Tour this season. The only person who beat him in his major championship debut at the Masters was Scheffler. Give me all the Aberg stock.

3rd pick — Wyndham Clark

Wyndham Clark walks off the No. 2 green during the first round of the 2024 Masters Tournament. (Photo: Adam Cairns-USA TODAY Network)

Yes, he ejected on Friday at the Masters, but on the season he has a win at Pebble Beach (in a shortened event) but also has two runner-up finishes and four top 10s in 10 starts. He’s consistently been in the mix for the last two years.

4th pick — Rory McIlroy

Rory McIlroy walks off the eighth green prior to the Zurich Classic of New Orleans at TPC Louisiana on April 24, 2024 in Avondale, Louisiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

The world No. 2 has six top-25 finishes in eight PGA Tour starts and bagged a win against a weak field in January on the DP World Tour in Dubai. Sure, he isn’t winning or competing at the clip he should be, but McIlroy has shown glimpses that make me believe he’s got the chance to rattle off a few wins this season.

5th pick — Jon Rahm

Jon Rahm tees off on No. 1 during a practice round at Augusta National Golf Club ahead of the 2024 Masters. (Photo: Michael Madrid-USA TODAY Network)

Rahm’s Masters title defense didn’t go as planned (T-45, 9 over) but at his best he’s still a top player in the world. He hasn’t finished worse than eighth place in five LIV starts and has three top-fives. He’ll win at least one of those this year and should be a factor in the three majors still to come.

6th pick — Xander Schauffele

Xander Schauffele plays his shot from the 14th tee during the first round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports

I mean, he’s gotta win again soon, right? The drought is pushing two years for Schauffele, two earned his 12 th major top 10 at the Masters. Nine top 25s and seven top 10s in 10 events on Tour. He’s due.

7th pick — Max Homa

Max Homa chips onto the No. 7 green during the final round of the Masters Tournament. (Photo: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Network)

It’s Max Homa’s time to shine. He’s won on Tour every year since 2019 (the COVID-riddled 2020 season aside) and just earned his best-ever major finish with his T-3 at the Masters. Expect him to nab a PGA Tour win, and don’t be surprised if his ballstriking shines at the U.S. Open at Pinehurst.

8th pick — Patrick Cantlay

Patrick Cantlay plays his shot from the 14th tee during the first round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports

You may not love his pace of play but his game is undeniable. He hasn’t missed a cut in nine starts and has five top-25 finishes. Even a ho-hum Masters still saw him finish T-22.

9th pick — Joaquin Niemann

Joaquin Niemann of Torque GC poses for a photo with his trophy after winning the LIV Golf Invitational – Jeddah at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club on March 03, 2024 in King Abdullah Economic City , Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Francois Nel/Getty Images)

With two wins in five LIV Golf starts this season and a win in December at the Australian Open, few players are hitting the ball as well as Niemann these days. After he earned a special invitation to the 2024 Masters, Niemann rebounded from a Friday 78 to finish T-22, his second-best major finish behind last year’s Masters (T-16).

10th pick — Bryson Dechambeau

Much like in the NFL Draft with quarterbacks or linemen, it’s a run of LIV players. His LIV team is rolling with two wins, and after a T-25 in the season opener, he’s gone on to finish T9-4-T6-T7 in the four events since.

Pick Nos. 11-15

Brooks Koepka seen on the eighth green during a practice round prior to the 2024 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. (Photo: Warren Little/Getty Images)

No. 11 — Brooks Koepka

No. 12 — Collin Morikawa

Morikawa made some key changes and appears to be back to his competitive ways.

No. 13 — Viktor Hovland

No. 14 — Tommy Fleetwood

134 PGA Tour starts. 23 top-five finishes. Zero wins. If Schauffele is due, Fleetwood is well past due and racking up late fees. This season he has three top 10s in eight starts. If he keeps banging on the door, eventually it’ll open up.

No. 15 — Sahith Theegala

Pick Nos. 16-20

Tyrrell Hatton of Legion XIII gestures during day one of the LIV Golf Invitational – Mayakoba at El Camaleon at Mayakoba on February 02, 2024 in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. (Photo by Manuel Velasquez/Getty Images)

No. 16 — Tyrrell Hatton

He’s been okay so far with LIV Golf (T8-T12-T15-T21-T4) but did pick up a top 10 at the Masters ( despite hating the course ).

No. 17 — Matt Fitzpatrick

No. 18 — Hideki Matsuyama

No. 19 — Justin Thomas

No. 20 — Jordan Spieth

Every draft has a reach and Spieth may be it for this one. Yes, his tournaments are a roller coaster of “wow” and “yikes” performances but that’ll sell tickets.

Pick Nos. 21-25

Will Zalatoris plays a shot from a bunker on the second hole during the third round of the 2024 Masters Tournament. (Photo: Michael Madrid-USA TODAY Network)

No. 21 — Will Zalatoris

Zalatoris is still working his way back from injury but a runner-up and three top 10s (including the Masters) in nine events is a nice start.

No. 22 — Cameron Young

No. 23 — Denny McCarthy

No. 24 — Brian Harman

No. 25 — Min Woo Lee

Pick Nos. 26-32

Jason Day and his caddie, Luke Reardon, wait on the 15th hole during the continuation of the first round of the 2024 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. (Photo: Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

No. 26 — Jason Day

He might dress poorly but he’s playing well with three top 10s this season. Keep an eye on JDay the rest of this season (and once again, not just for his bad outfits ).

No. 27 — Sam Burns

No. 28 — Tom Kim

No. 29 — Tony Finau

No. 30 — Akshay Bhatia

No. 31 — Cameron Smith

No. 32 — Talor Gooch

I’d hate for this list to have an asterisk .

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2024 LIV Golf Singapore schedule, field of players, teams, prize money, purse, live stream, TV schedule

Liv golf embarks on its second tournament in as many weeks.

Following yet another successful event in Australia, LIV Golf is back at it again this week in Singapore. LIV Golf Singapore marks the second time in as many years that the 54-hole circuit will travel to the country, and it represents the league's final event before the second major championship of the season, the PGA Championship.

It will be at Valhalla in two weeks' time that Smash GC's captain, Brooks Koepka, will defend his Wanamaker Trophy. The five-time major champion has not experienced the fast start that he saw in 2023 before winning at Oak Hill, but he may have showed signs of things to come with a quality outing at last week's LIV Golf Adelaide.

Koepka hopes to build on the momentum he garnered at The Grange ahead of his major defense. Meanwhile, Cameron Smith's Ripper GC proved victorious in a playoff over Louis Oosthuizen's Stinger GC in the league's first-ever team playoff. The all-Australian squad scored their first victory together on home soil and aim to keep a good thing going this week.

Meanwhile, two-time major champion, Jon Rahm, continues to flash form but is without an individual crown to show for it. The world No. 5 is getting himself in position and is among the favorites to take home the trophy before eyeing his third different major championship.

Torque GC's Joaquin Niemann remains in fine form, as does Crushers GC's Bryson DeChambeau. Dustin Johnson will look to lean on his teammate, Patrick Reed, with their 4 Aces are sinking down the season-long standings with only six tournaments to go.

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Greg Norman denies LIV Golf approach for Rory McIlroy but insists door remains open for interested players

LIV Golf chief executive Greg Norman dismissed reports of a £627m offer made to Rory McIlroy to switch from the PGA Tour; Norman insisted he has no insight into negotiations to reunite men's golf; Jon Rahm also spoke on whether LIV should switch to 72-hole events

Wednesday 24 April 2024 07:37, UK

Greg Norman denied that LIV Golf made an offer to Rory McIlroy to switch from the PGA Tour, but added the door remains open for anyone interested in joining the series.

Four-time major winner McIlroy, once one of LIV's staunchest critics but who has adopted a more conciliatory tone recently, was reported last week to have turned down a £627m offer to switch allegiance.

McIlroy was quick to shut down the rumours, insisting he had no ambitions to play anywhere other than the PGA Tour.

Speaking ahead of this week's tournament in Adelaide, LIV chief executive Norman dismissed any notion an offer had been put forward to McIlroy, although the two-time Open champion would welcome talks with the 34-year-old or other players about what the Saudi-backed series could offer them.

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"LIV never put an offer to him," Norman said. "We didn't need to make a comment about this, this is just typical white noise that gets out there in the industry.

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"If Rory was willing to sit down and have a conversation with us, would we be happy to sit down with him? One hundred per cent, no different than any other player who would be interested in coming on and playing with us.

"It's understanding the facts about what LIV represents and what LIV can deliver on a global basis, it's up to you to determine it. I've sat down with one top, top PGA TOUR player in his house with another member of my team, walking through the whole process, and he was so impressed.

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"He said, 'well, that's not what we're told in the locker room. This is really impressive', but he made the decision, he told me up two days later and said, 'I've decided to stay where I'm at'.

"I said, 'happy days. You made a decision on fact. If you're happier over here, fine, stay there. Your door is always open; if you want to come back and have a conversation with us, happy to do that'."

Along with pledging his future to the PGA Tour ahead of last week's RBC Heritage, McIlroy is set to re-join the PGA Tour policy board just five months after stepping down from it.

The Northern Irishman's decision to take a place on the board as one of six player representatives, taking over from Webb Simpson, comes at a time when negotiations between the PGA Tour and LIV's financial backers PIF are understood to be stalling.

Despite a framework agreement between the different factions in men's professional golf being announced 10 months ago, they have not yet signed off on a formal reunification.

However, Norman insisted he had no insight into how negotiations are progressing and that his only focus is on continuing to grow LIV, which reaches the midway point of it 12-event 2024 schedule at The Grange in Adelaide this week.

"Our investor wanted to invest into LIV because he loved the opportunity of the franchise model, what he could do with it and how we can build it out on a global platform," Norman said.

"So, me specifically, I don't know what's going on over there. I really don't want to know what's going on over there because we are so fixated on growing and developing and building out what LIV is today and looking and doing our schedule for 2025 and going into 2026.

"Our responsibility is to look after our people, our players, and where we want to go. I don't have an answer."

Could LIV move to 72-hole events in future?

One of LIV's biggest differences from the traditional tournaments on the PGA Tour and DP World Tour is that, along with the team element, it is played over a 54-hole no-cut format as opposed to 72-hole events with a cut after the second round.

However, Jon Rahm, who moved to LIV in December last year, recently suggested the series should look at moving to a 72-hole format to build trust among sceptical golf fans and expanded on that ahead of the Adelaide event.

"I think there's a level of comfort when I say that because it's a little bit more of what we're used to seeing in golf," Rahm said. "I came to this realization, and I think it could help a lot of fans' trust in LIV a little bit more because that's a lot of the complaints that I see from a lot of people, but I made the analogy a little bit ago of why I think we can end up with a great product.

"In football… the one thing I realized is they [across different leagues and competitions] all play under the same set of rules. While we play under most set of rules, the one key difference is 72 holes.

"The only sport that I see that does it a little bit different to where they play pretty much the same and then the Grand Slams are different is tennis.

"But at the end of the day, LIV is a business. If it doesn't fit the product, it doesn't fit the product. I'm just a player. There's a lot of people that are a lot smarter than me that can figure it out and explain why they believe 54 holes may be better for them."

Norman admitted moving to 72 holes is something which is being discussed, although added that it would have to make sense economically and would take away the intensity of players having to perform right from the start of a tournament.

"When you can tee up on Friday, it's a sprint to the end," Norman said. "Sometimes you can have an average first round and then you come back and shoot a 64 and get yourself back into it, now you're into the weekend.

"It is intense pressure on it straight away because you have to perform immediately right off the bat.

"It's a great conversation to have. We will continue to have that conversation going forward.

"There are things that we sit back and look at to see what is the most optimal solution to make this a better and better and better event, and 72 holes is discussed."

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