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Revision as of 14:54, 17 October 2022

2022 LIV Golf Invitational Series season
Duration9 June 2022 (2022-06-09) – 30 October 2022 (2022-10-30)
Number of official events8
Individual championUnited States Dustin Johnson
2023 →

The 2022 LIV Golf Invitational Series is the first season of the LIV Golf Invitational Series. The season consists of eight 54-hole tournaments, featuring 48 players and no cut.

Development

On 17 March 2022, the first eight tournament schedule with prize money of $255 million was announced by Greg Norman. The 54-hole tournaments will have no cut and will feature 48 players drafted into 12 four-man teams, with shotgun starts. The first seven events will have $20 million purses with an additional $5 million split among the top three teams each week; a team championship concludes the schedule with a $30 million on offer to the top three players and an additional $50 million in team prizes.[1][2][3]

Broadcasting

Currently LIV Golf broadcasts events on its website and on its own YouTube and Facebook pages. Arlo White serves as lead broadcaster with pundits Jerry Foltz and Dom Boulet. Su-Ann Heng serves as an on-course reporter and Troy Mullins is billed as both on-course reporter and influencer for the tour.[4] In July, it was confirmed that David Feherty would be leaving NBC Sports to join the LIV Golf broadcast team.[5]

In the U.S., the organization attempted to buy time on Fox as its broadcaster, but were unable to reach an agreement. All of the remaining major television networks in the U.S. have ties to the PGA Tour's media rights, and Turner Sports is under the purview of Warner Bros. Discovery, which serves as the tour's major broadcaster overseas, which would effectively prevent them from airing LIV Golf due to its animosity.[6] Likewise, PGA Tour media partners have largely avoided direct references to LIV during golf telecasts, only discussing it from a critical perspective.[7]

Teams

  • 4 Aces GC
  • Cleeks GC
  • Crusher GC
  • Fireball GC
  • HY Flyers GC
  • Iron Heads GC
  • Majesticks GC
  • Niblicks GC
  • Punch GC
  • Smash GC
  • Stinger GC
  • Torque GC

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2022 season.[8]

Date Tournament Host country Purse (US$) Winner Other
tours[a]		 Notes
Individual Team Individual Team
11 Jun LIV Golf Invitational London England 20,000,000 5,000,000 South Africa Charl Schwartzel (1) Stinger GC[b]
2 Jul LIV Golf Invitational Portland United States 20,000,000 5,000,000 South Africa Branden Grace (1) 4 Aces GC[c]
31 Jul LIV Golf Invitational Bedminster United States 20,000,000 5,000,000 Sweden Henrik Stenson (1) 4 Aces GC[c]
4 Sep LIV Golf Invitational Boston United States 20,000,000 5,000,000 United States Dustin Johnson (1) 4 Aces GC[c]
18 Sep LIV Golf Invitational Chicago United States 20,000,000 5,000,000 Australia Cameron Smith (1) 4 Aces GC[c]
9 Oct LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok Thailand 20,000,000 5,000,000 Spain Eugenio Chacarra (1) Fireballs GC[d] MENA
16 Oct LIV Golf Invitational Jeddah Saudi Arabia 20,000,000 5,000,000 United States Brooks Koepka (1) Smash GC[e] MENA
30 Oct LIV Golf Invitational Miami United States 30,000,000 50,000,000 Team Championship

Points standings

Individual

Players finishing top-24 at each Invitational Series tournament receive points ranging from 40 (first place) to 1 (21st-24th place), and the player with the most points after the seven regular season events will be crowned Individual Champion. Prizes are $18 million to the individual champion, $8 million to the runner-up and $4 million to third.

Point standings as of the sixth event (LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok)[9]

Position Player Events Points
1 United States Dustin Johnson 6 121
2 South Africa Branden Grace 6 79
3 United States Patrick Reed 5 76
4 Australia Cameron Smith 3 56
5 South Africa Charl Schwartzel 6 55

Team

Point standings as of the sixth event (LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok)[10]

Position Team Points
1 4 Aces 140
2 Crushers 80
3 Stinger 72
4 Fireballs 69
5 Majesticks 59

Money leaders

Leading players in the money list as of 16 October 2022 (LIV Golf Invitational Jeddah):[11]

Position Player Events Prize money ($)
Individual Team Total
1 United States Dustin Johnson 7 10,575,267 3,062,500 13,637,767
2 United States Patrick Reed 6 5,148,214 3,062,500 8,210,714
3 South Africa Branden Grace 7 6,509,666 1,125,000 7,634,666
4 United States Peter Uihlein 7 5,814,786 1,500,000 7,314,786
5 South Africa Charl Schwartzel 7 6,010,000 1,125,000 7,135,000

Awards

Award Winner(s) Ref.
Individual champion United States Dustin Johnson [12]
Team champions
Money winner

Notes

  1. ^ MENA − MENA Tour.
  2. ^ Hennie du Plessis, Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel
  3. ^ a b c d Talor Gooch, Dustin Johnson, Pat Perez and Patrick Reed
  4. ^ Abraham Ancer, Eugenio Chacarra, Sergio García and Carlos Ortiz
  5. ^ Brooks Koepka, Chase Koepka, Jason Kokrak and Peter Uihlein

References

  1. ^ DiMeglio, Steve (16 March 2022). "Greg Norman announces Saudi Arabia-backed 2022 LIV Golf Invitational Series will start in June, feature $255 million in prize money". Golfweek. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  2. ^ Beall, Joel; Rapaport, Dan (16 March 2022). "Saudi-backed LIV Golf announces eight-event, $255 million series that will visit United States". Golf Digest. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  3. ^ Beall, Joel (25 April 2022). "Trump Doral to host $50 million LIV Golf series finale". Golf Digest. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  4. ^ Kerschbaumer, Ken (7 June 2022). "LIV Golf Details Production Plans for Centurion Club Debut". Sports Video Group. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  5. ^ Bain, Mark (18 July 2022). "Northern Irish golf pundit David Feherty to move to LIV Golf to become an analyst". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  6. ^ Draper, Kevin (16 June 2022). "LIV Golf Has Marquee Names and Giant Purses. So Why No TV Deal?". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  7. ^ Rigdon, Jay (14 July 2022). "Dan Hicks sidesteps saying "LIV" during Open Championship coverage". Awful Announcing. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  8. ^ "Events 2022". LIV Golf. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  9. ^ "Individual champion". LIV Golf. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  10. ^ "Team standings". LIV Golf. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  11. ^ "LIV Golf Jeddah prize money". Golfweek. Associated Press. 16 October 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  12. ^ "LIV Golf: Inaugural champion Dustin Johnson receives £16.2m in prize money". BBC Sport. 10 October 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
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