How to watch the third tournament this weekend in New Jersey
The LIV Golf Invitational Collection is again this week for its third occasion, and second in america, on the Trump Nationwide Golf Membership Bedminster in New Jersey.
Whereas the Saudi Arabian-backed golf enterprise is slowly choosing up new golfers, and is making plans to expand next year, the controversy surrounding the league hasn’t gone away.
Right here’s all the pieces you could know forward of the event this weekend.
Learn how to watch
LIV Golf nonetheless doesn’t have a tv deal in america, however the event will probably be streamed without spending a dime on the league’s YouTube and Fb pages, as well as LivGolf.com.
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The event runs Friday via Sunday, and the shotgun begin every day will start at 1:15 ET.
Who’re the staff captains?
Most staff captains are the identical as they had been in Oregon, however there are just a few modifications this week in New Jersey.
4 Aces – Dustin Johnson
Niblicks – Hudson Swafford
Majestics – Lee Westwood
Iron Heads – Kevin Na
Stinger – Louis Oosthuizen
Cleeks – Martin Kaymer
Crushers – Bryson DeChambeau
Hy Flyers – Phil Mickelson
Hearth Balls – Sergio Garcia
Smash – Brooks Koepka
Torque – Hideto Tanihara
Punch – Wade Ormsby
How a lot does the profitable staff make?
Every common season LIV occasion has a handbag of $25 million.
Of that, $5 million will probably be cut up between the highest three groups, with the highest staff receiving $3 million. The remaining $20 million will probably be cut up individually, with the first-place winner incomes $4 million and the last-place finisher receiving $120,000.
By comparability, The Gamers Championship provides a handbag of $20 million, which is essentially the most in any single occasion on PGA Tour exterior of the Tour Championship.
Who’s new within the discipline this week?
There are a number of new notable golfers within the discipline this week in New Jersey.
Jason Kokrak, Paul Casey, Charles Howell and Henrik Stenson will all make their LIV debuts at Bedminster.
Kokrak, Casey and Howell all spoke to reporters Wednesday, and Casey defended Saudi Arabia amid accusations of sportswashing and widespread human rights abuses — which was a stark change from his opinion on the country just a few years in the past.
The transfer to LIV was pricey for Stenson. He was stripped of his Ryder Cup captaincy earlier this month, leaving a vacant prime spot for Crew Europe forward of the 2023 competitors.
Sergio Garcia is once more within the discipline. Whereas he has dedicated to LIV for weeks now, Garcia stated earlier this month that he was planning to formally reduce ties with the DP World Tour, the place the Spaniard is apparently not feeling the love anymore.
Bubba Watson is reportedly set to join the league at its subsequent occasion in Boston in September. An official announcement is anticipated this week.
Longtime golf analyst David Feherty is expected to assist cowl the occasion this week, too. Feherty cut up with NBC final week, simply after he completed protecting the British Open.
What about Donald Trump?
The occasion this week has drawn extra consideration, and criticism, than regular due to the course’s location.
The event is being held at former President Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf club, the very course that was stripped of holding this 12 months’s PGA Championship. The course sits about 50 miles from New York Metropolis, which has sparked huge backlash and protests from the victims of the 9/11 terrorist assaults.
Trump will play within the pro-am Thursday alongside Caitlyn Jenner and Charles Barkley.
Trump has advocated for PGA Tour golfers to make the soar to LIV to get forward of a possible “merger,” although there isn’t any reported dialogue of such a merger occurring.
Charles Barkley to LIV Golf?
NBA Corridor of Famer and analyst Charles Barkley will actually be in the pro-am field this week in New Jersey.
Although Barkley is nowhere close to pretty much as good as anybody else in the actual discipline, Barkley’s look on the occasion comes amid speak that he could be a part of the league as a broadcaster. He said earlier this week that it would take about $60 million a year — which is about 3 times what he’s making now — to get him to hitch the league. He additionally stated he was giving LIV a Thursday deadline to make the provide, in order that he doesn’t “preserve TNT in limbo.”
As for the criticism the league has faced, Barkley blames it on “selective outrage.” He additionally has spoken with a number of of his main sponsors, who appeared involved.
“I instructed [LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman],” Barkley said last week. “’Hear, they’re making up phrases, like ‘blood cash’ and ‘sports activities washing.’ I stated, ‘We’ve all taken ‘blood cash’ and all of us have ‘sports activities washed’ one thing so I don’t like these phrases, to be sincere with you.’
“In case you are in professional sports activities, you take some sort of cash from not an awesome trigger.”
