LIV Golf Mayakoba

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LIV Golf Mayakoba
Tournament information
Location Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Established2023
Course(s)El Camaleon Golf Club
Par71
Length7,116 yards (6,507 m)
Tour(s) LIV Golf
FormatIndividual and team stroke play
Prize fund US$20,000,000 (individual)
US$5,000,000 (team) [1]
Month playedFebruary
Tournament record score
Aggregate197 Charles Howell III (2023)
To par−16 as above
Current champion
Flag of Chile.svg Joaquín Niemann
Location Map
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Icona golf.svg
El Camaleon GC
Location in Mexico
Mexico Quintana Roo location map.svg
Icona golf.svg
El Camaleon GC
Location in Quintana Roo

LIV Golf Mayakoba is a professional golf tournament sponsored by LIV Golf in Mexico, held at Playa del Carmen, south of Cancún. It debuted in February 2023. The first event was also co-sponsored by the MENA Tour.

Contents

Format

The tournament is a 54-hole individual stroke play event, with a team element. Four man teams are chosen, 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. [2]

Winners

Individual

YearTour(s) [lower-alpha 1] WinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner-up
2024 LIV Flag of Chile.svg Joaquín Niemann 201−12Playoff Flag of Spain.svg Sergio García
2023 LIV, MENA Flag of the United States.svg Charles Howell III 197−164 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Peter Uihlein

Team

YearWinners [lower-alpha 2] Score
(to par)
Margin of
victory
Runners-up [lower-alpha 2]
2024 Legion XIII [lower-alpha 3] −244 strokesCrushers GC [lower-alpha 4]
2023 Crushers GC [lower-alpha 4] −269 strokes4Aces GC [lower-alpha 5]

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References

  1. "Here's the prize money payout for each golfer at the 2024 LIV Golf League Mayakoba". GolfDigest.com. Golf Digest. 2 February 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  2. Scrivener, Peter (8 June 2022). "LIV Golf - all you need to know about Saudi-funded series". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 June 2022.