LIV Golf Invitational Boston

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LIV Golf Invitational Boston
Tournament information
Location Bolton, Massachusetts
Established2022
Course(s) The Oaks Golf Course at The International
Par72
Length7,100 yards (6,500 m) [1]
Tour(s) LIV Golf
FormatIndividual and team stroke play
Prize fund US$20,000,000 (individual)
US$5,000,000 (team)
Month playedSeptember
Final year2022
Tournament record score
Aggregate195 Dustin Johnson (2022)
195 Anirban Lahiri (2022)
195 Joaquín Niemann (2022)
To par−15 as above
Final champion
Flag of the United States.svg Dustin Johnson
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The International
Location in the United States
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The International
Location in Massachusetts

The LIV Golf Invitational Boston was a golf tournament held in Bolton, Massachusetts, outside of Boston at The Oaks Golf Course at The International. The tournament was held in September 2022 as part of the LIV Golf Invitational Series, a golf series led by Greg Norman and funded by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund. The 2022 48-player field included Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed and Sergio García. [2]

Contents

Format

The tournament will be a 54-hole individual stroke play event, with a team element. Four man teams will be selected via a draft by their designated team captains, with a set number of their total scores counting for the team on each day. Each round commenced with a shotgun start, with the leaders beginning on the first hole for the final round, in order to finish on the eighteenth. [3]

Inaugural field

48 golfers participated in the inaugural LIV Boston event. [lower-alpha 1]

Teams

Winners

Individual

YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runners-up
2022 Flag of the United States.svg Dustin Johnson 195−15Playoff [lower-alpha 4] Flag of India.svg Anirban Lahiri
Flag of Chile.svg Joaquín Niemann

Team

YearWinners [lower-alpha 1] Score
(to par)
Margin of
victory
Runners-up [lower-alpha 1]
2022 4 Aces GC [lower-alpha 5] −322 strokesCrushers GC [lower-alpha 6]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 (c) – Team captain
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Smith, Niemann, Varner III, Tringale, Leishman, Lahiri and Al Kurdi made their first appearances in the series. [5]
  3. Al Kurdi replaced Henrik Stenson, who was suffering from vertigo. [4]
  4. Johnson won with an eagle on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.
  5. Talor Gooch, Dustin Johnson (c), Pat Perez and Patrick Reed
  6. Paul Casey, Bryson DeChambeau (c), Charles Howell III and Anirban Lahiri

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