2023 LIV Golf League

2023 LIV Golf League season

Duration	24 February 2023 (2023-02-24) – 22 October 2023 (2023-10-22)
Number of official events	14
Most wins	Talor Gooch (3)
Individual points list	Talor Gooch
Team champions	Crushers GC
Money list	Talor Gooch
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The 2023 LIV Golf League was the second season of LIV Golf following the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational Series. The season consisted of thirteen 54-hole tournaments, featuring 48 players and no cut, with a team championship event at the season end.

Talor Gooch won three tournaments during the season to claim the individual title by 22 points from Cameron Smith, with Brooks Koepka in third place. ^[1] The team championship was won by Crushers GC, captained by Bryson DeChambeau, by two strokes from Range Goats GC; 4 Aces GC had topped the regular season points standings but finished in fourth place in the final. ^[2] Smith, Koepka and DeChambeau all won twice during the season; the other winners were Charles Howell III, Danny Lee, Dustin Johnson and Harold Varner III.

Broadcasting

In the United States, The CW broadcast and streamed the tournaments under a multi-year deal with the organization signed in January 2023. ^[3]

PGA Tour agreement

In June 2023, it was announced that the Public Investment Fund, the PGA Tour and the European Tour would create a new entity to serve the best interests of each entity. ^[4]

OWGR points rejection

In October 2023, it was announced by the Official World Golf Ranking that LIV Golf's application to receive OWGR points was rejected. ^{[5] [6]}

Teams

The 2023 LIV Golf League consisted of twelve teams. Unlike the structure of the 2022 Invitational Series; where some players regularly changed teams from week-to-week, the 2023 season was planned to have players signed to individual teams and will have remained with that team throughout the entire season. LIV Golf began announcing team rosters on 15 February 2023. ^[7]

Starting roster

Team	Members [lower-alpha 1]
	Captain(s)	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Substitute players
4Aces GC	Dustin Johnson	Patrick Reed	Peter Uihlein	Pat Perez
Cleeks GC	Martin Kaymer	Bernd Wiesberger	Graeme McDowell	Richard Bland	Laurie Canter [lower-alpha 2]
Crushers GC	Bryson DeChambeau	Paul Casey	Charles Howell III	Anirban Lahiri	Andy Ogletree [lower-alpha 3]
Fireballs GC	Sergio García	Abraham Ancer	Carlos Ortiz	Eugenio Chacarra
HyFlyers GC	Phil Mickelson	Cameron Tringale	James Piot	Brendan Steele
Iron Heads GC	Kevin Na	Scott Vincent	Sihwan Kim	Danny Lee
Majesticks GC [lower-alpha 4]	Henrik Stenson, Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood			Sam Horsfield	Laurie Canter [lower-alpha 5] Andy Ogletree [lower-alpha 6]
RangeGoats GC	Bubba Watson	Talor Gooch	Harold Varner III	Thomas Pieters	Wade Ormsby [lower-alpha 7]
Ripper GC	Cameron Smith	Marc Leishman	Matt Jones	Jediah Morgan
Smash GC	Brooks Koepka	Matthew Wolff	Jason Kokrak	Chase Koepka	Kieran Vincent [lower-alpha 8]
Stinger GC	Louis Oosthuizen	Charl Schwartzel	Branden Grace	Dean Burmester
Torque GC	Joaquín Niemann	Sebastián Muñoz	Mito Pereira	David Puig

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2023 season. ^{[18] [19] [20]}

Date	Tournament	Host country	Purse (US$)		Individual winner [lower-alpha 9]	Winning team	Other tours [lower-alpha 10]	Notes
			Individual	Team
26 Feb	LIV Golf Mayakoba	Mexico	20,000,000	5,000,000	Charles Howell III (1)	Crushers GC	MENA
19 Mar	LIV Golf Tucson	United States	20,000,000	5,000,000	Danny Lee (1)	Fireballs GC	MENA
2 Apr	LIV Golf Orlando	United States	20,000,000	5,000,000	Brooks Koepka (2)	Torque GC	MENA
23 Apr	LIV Golf Adelaide	Australia	20,000,000	5,000,000	Talor Gooch (1)	4Aces GC	MENA
30 Apr	LIV Golf Singapore	Singapore	20,000,000	5,000,000	Talor Gooch (2)	RangeGoats GC	MENA
14 May	LIV Golf Tulsa	United States	20,000,000	5,000,000	Dustin Johnson (2)	Stinger GC	MENA
28 May	LIV Golf Washington, D.C.	United States	20,000,000	5,000,000	Harold Varner III (1)	Torque GC	MENA
2 Jul	LIV Golf Andalucía	Spain	20,000,000	5,000,000	Talor Gooch (3)	Torque GC	MENA
9 Jul	LIV Golf London	England	20,000,000	5,000,000	Cameron Smith (2)	4Aces GC	MENA
6 Aug	LIV Golf Greenbrier	United States	20,000,000	5,000,000	Bryson DeChambeau (1)	Torque GC	MENA
13 Aug	LIV Golf Bedminster	United States	20,000,000	5,000,000	Cameron Smith (3)	Ripper GC	MENA
24 Sep	LIV Golf Chicago	United States	20,000,000	5,000,000	Bryson DeChambeau (2)	Crushers GC	MENA
15 Oct 5 Nov [lower-alpha 11]	LIV Golf Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	20,000,000	5,000,000	Brooks Koepka (3)	Fireballs GC	MENA
22 Oct	LIV Golf Miami	United States	n/a	50,000,000	n/a	Crushers GC		Team Championship

Points list

Individual points list

The individual points list was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system. ^{[22] [23]}

Position	Player	Team	Points
1	Talor Gooch	RangeGoats GC	192
2	Cameron Smith	Ripper GC	170
3	Brooks Koepka	Smash GC	152
4	Bryson DeChambeau	Crushers GC	149
5	Dustin Johnson	4Aces GC	125

Team points list

The team points list was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system. ^{[22] [24]}

Position	Team	Points	TC finish
1	4Aces GC	192	4th
2	Crushers GC	186	1st
3	Torque GC	183	3rd
4	RangeGoats GC	179	2nd
5	Stinger GC	157	5th

Money list

The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars. ^[25]

Position	Player	Prize money ($)
		Individual	Team	Bonus	Total
1	Talor Gooch	17,320,012	4,187,500	18,000,000	39,507,512
2	Cameron Smith	13,955,417	1,625,000	10,000,000	25,580,417
3	Bryson DeChambeau	13,335,000	6,250,000		19,585,000
4	Brooks Koepka	13,495,833	812,500	4,000,000	18,308,333
5	Harold Varner III	9,125,833	4,187,500		13,313,333

Relegations

Non-exempt players who finished 45th or lower in the individual points list were relegated from the league. Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer finished 45th and 49th, respectively; however, both were exempt from relegation as they were team captains. Jediah Morgan (46th), James Piot (47th), Chase Koepka (48th), and Sihwan Kim (50th) were relegated from the league. ^{[22] [26]}

Promotions event

The LIV Golf Promotions Event is due to be held 8–10 December 2023 at Abu Dhabi Golf Club in the United Arab Emirates. ^[27]

Format

The event will take place over three days, with 72 holes being played in total. ^[28] The first round will be open players finishing 6–32 in the 2023 International Series Order of Merit, winners of leading amateur tournaments, players ranked inside the top-200 of the Official World Golf Ranking and players ranked inside the top-20 of the World Amateur Golf Ranking. The top-20 and ties from the first round advance to the second round, where scores are reset. Also entering at this stage will be players relegated from the 2023 LIV Golf League, tournament winners during the 2022–23 PGA Tour and 2023 European Tour seasons, major champions since 2018, Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup players, and players finishing 2–5 on the 2023 International Series Order of Merit. The top-16 from the second round will advance to the final two rounds, with the scores being reset once again. The top three finishers over the final two rounds will earn status to play in the 2024 LIV Golf League.

Notes

1. Players presented in order of the LIV Golf final 2023 team rosters announcement. ^[8]
2. Substituted for Kaymer in Mayakoba, ^[9] Tucson ^[10] and Orlando. ^[11]
3. Substituted for Lahiri in Orlando, ^[11] and Casey in Washington, D.C. ^[12]
4. Stenson, Poulter, and Westwood are co-captains of Majesticks GC. ^[13]
5. Substituted for Horsfield after he withdrew before the third round in Adelaide; ^[14] and continued to substitute for him in Singapore, Tulsa, Washington, D.C., Andalucía, London, Greenbrier and Bedminster.
6. Substituted for Westwood in Tulsa, after he withdrew before the third round. ^[15]
7. Substituted for Pieters after he withdrew before the third round in Washington, D.C. ^[16]
8. Substituted for Kokrak in Washington, D.C., after he withdrew before the second round. ^[17]
9. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of LIV Golf League events they had won up to and including that tournament.
10. MENA − MENA Tour.
11. In July, LIV Golf announced that Miami would host the team championship to end the season and Jeddah would move to the week prior to Miami. ^[21]

References

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21. Harig, Bob (10 July 2023). "LIV Golf Makes Change to Fall Schedule, Will End Season in Miami". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
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27. Singh, Kunal (17 October 2023). "Golfers to compete for coveted spots in the 2024 LIV Golf season at LIV Abu Dhabi GC Promotional event". Sportskeeda. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
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External links

• Official website