LIV Golf is again for a second season in 2023 with the Saudi-backed enterprise seeking to acquire momentum with its gamers poised to play within the majors.
The Masters confirmed it can honour invites to these exempt and people inside the highest 50 gamers on this planet in accordance with the OWGR.
That means we may even see extra drama as the perfect from LIV tackle the perfect on the PGA Tour and DP World Tour on the most important stage, with Rory McIlroy and Patrick Reed’s thrilling battle on the Dubai Desert Classic showcasing the theatre within the sport at present.
Dustin Johnson took dwelling greater than $35 million in his debut season, triumphing within the particular person and group championships.
Here’s all the things you could know concerning the closing LIV Golf for season two in 2023:
What is LIV Golf?
LIV Golf is the breakaway league fronted by two-time Open champion Greg Norman as chief government and backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
The PIF has invested unprecedented sums of cash into the game, each for gamers to enroll and likewise purses for every occasion, attracting condemnation from human rights charities corresponding to Amnesty International.
The new competitors guidelines and format convey a recent look to golf, with the group facet rising as its distinctive promoting level.
There shall be 12 groups and 48 gamers in every subject, with the match performed over 54 holes and three days – somewhat than the standard 72 holes and 4 days. There isn’t any lower, in contrast to the PGA Tour and DP World Tour, whereas LIV Golf additionally added the shotgun begin, which they are saying promotes sooner play with teams beginning at totally different holes throughout the course and enjoying it in several orders.
LIV Golf schedule 2023
24-26 February: El Camaleon Golf Course, Mayakoba, Mexico
17-19 March: Gallery Golf Club, Tucson, United States
31 March – 2 April Orange County National, Orland, United States
21-23 April Grange Golf Club, Adelaide, Australia
28-30 April Sentosa Golf Club, Singapore
12-14 May Cedar Ridge Country Club, Tulsa, United States
26-28 May Trump National Golf Club, Washington DC, United States
30 June – 2 July Real Club Valderrama, Sotogrande, Andalucia, Spain
7-9 July Centurion Club, St Albans, UK
4-6 August Old White Golf Course, Greenbrier, United States
11-13 August Trump National Bedminster, United States
22-24 September Rich Harvest Farms, Chicago, United States
20-22 October Trump National Doral, United States
3-5 November Royal Greens Golf Course, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Who is enjoying?
- Abraham Ancer
- Oliver Bekker
- Richard Bland
- Itthipat Buranatanyarat
- Laurie Canter
- Paul Casey
- Eugenio Chacarra
- TK Chantananuwat (Amateur)
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Hennie Duplessis
- Oliver Fisher
- Sergio Garcia
- Talor Gooch
- Branden Grace
- Justin Harding
- Sam Horsfield
- Charles Howell III
- Yuki Inamori
- Dustin Johnson
- Matt Jones
- Sadom Kaewkanjana
- Martin Kaymer
- Phachara Khongwatmai
- Sihwan Kim
- Ryosuke Kinoshita
- Brooks Koepka
- Chase Koepka
- Jason Kokrak
- Jinichiro Kozuma
- Shergo Al Kurdi
- Anirban Lahiri
- Pablo Larrazabal
- Marc Leishman
- Viraj Madappa
- Graeme McDowell
- Phil Mickelson
- Jediah Morgan
- Kevin Na
- Joaquin Niemann
- Shaun Norris
- Andy Ogletree
- Louis Oosthuizen
- Wade Ormsby
- Carlos Ortiz
- Adrian Otaegui
- Pat Perez
- Turk Pettit
- James Piot
- Ian Poulter
- David Puig
- Patrick Reed
- JC Ritchie
- Charl Schwartzel
- Cameron Smith
- Travis Smyth
- Ian Snyman
- Henrik Stenson
- Hudson Swafford
- Hideto Tanihara
- Cameron Tringale
- Peter Uihlein
- Harold Varner III
- Scott Vincent
- Bubba Watson
- Lee Westwood
- Bernd Wiesberger
- Blake Windred
- Matthew Wolff
- Kevin Yuan
Who are the groups?
- 4 Aces
- Crushers
- Fireballs
- Stinger
- Smash
- Majesticks
- Torque
- Hy Flyers
- Iron Heads
- Cleeks
- Punch
- Niblicks
Is it on TV?
LIV Golf has but to be picked up by a significant broadcaster within the UK, however will in the intervening time proceed to be accessible by means of the LIV Golf YouTube channel and Facebook web page.
LIV has signed a TV take care of The CW community within the United States. The first spherical of motion shall be accessible on The CW App by means of good TVs and cellular units, with login or subscription is required to look at. The second and third rounds shall be accessible on The CW, in addition to the app.
How a lot is the prize cash?
The prize cash for 2023 is up 63 % to $405 million.
Each LIV Golf occasion can have a handbag of $25 million – $20m for the person occasion and $5 million for the group occasion. The Team Championship can have $50 million up for grabs. In addition to the 14 LIV Golf occasions, there are 11 worldwide collection, every boasting a $5 million purse.
The particular person winner of every occasion will take dwelling $4 million, whereas the successful group provides $3 million – $750,000 per participant. Last place, forty eighth, within the particular person standings will nonetheless take dwelling $120,000.
The successful group from the Team Championship takes dwelling $16 million, or $4 million per participant.
Bonuses
Individual season end bonuses shall be given to the highest three gamers, first takes dwelling an additional $18 million, the runner-up banks $8 million and third takes dwelling $4 million from the $30 million bonus pool.
Scoring
The particular person occasions will see common strokeplay scoring to determine the champion every week.
The group occasion will see the perfect two stroke play scores from every of the primary two rounds depend for every group. For the third and closing spherical, the perfect three scores will depend, with the bottom total group rating after 54 holes being named the group winner.
Each group has a captain with 4 gamers in complete.
The Team Championship in Jeddah, the 14th occasion of the season, will see a seeded four-day, four-round, match play knock-out.
Points
Individual
The winner every week will decide up 40 factors and solely these inside the highest 24 gamers – half of the 48-man subject – will earn factors. The main factors scorer after the 13 common LIV Golf occasions shall be topped particular person champion.
- 1st – 40 factors
- 2nd – 30 factors
- third – 24 factors
- 4th – 18 factors
- fifth – 16 factors
- sixth – 14 factors
- seventh – 13 factors
- eighth – 12 factors
- ninth – 11 factors
- tenth – 10 factors
- eleventh – 8 factors
- twelfth – 7 factors
- thirteenth – 6 factors
- 14th – 5 factors
- fifteenth – 4 factors
- sixteenth – 3 factors
- seventeenth – 3 factors
- 18th – 2 factors
- nineteenth – 2 factors
- twentieth – 2 factors
- twenty first – 1 level
- twenty second – 1 level
- twenty third – 1 level
- twenty fourth – 1 level
Team
To decide seeding for the Team Championship, groups shall be awarded factors for every occasion.
- 1st – 32 factors
- 2nd – 24 factors
- third – 16 factors
- 4th – 12 factors
- fifth – 8 factors
- sixth – 4 factors
- seventh – 2 factors
- eighth – 1 level
- ninth – twelfth – no factors
