LIV Golf announces massive prize money, 14-event 2023 schedule
The Saudi-funded LIV Golf sequence introduced a 14-tournament schedule for subsequent yr with 12 established crew franchises and an opportunity for gamers to both be promoted or relegated by its sequence of Asian Tour occasions.
Greg Norman, the CEO and commissioner of LIV Golf, stated Wednesday in a information launch that the complete schedule could be launched later and would come with stops the world over.
The rival league of the PGA and European excursions performs its third occasion this week at Trump Nationwide Bedminster in New Jersey, the course owned by former President Donald Trump. The 4 additions to the 48-man roster of gamers are Henrik Stenson, Paul Casey, Charles Howell III and Jason Kokrak. The European tour stripped Stenson of his Ryder Cup captaincy for signing up with LIV Golf, after pledging full assist to the tour when he was chosen as captain in March.
Together with the 48-man subject, no-cut occasions price $25 million in prize cash, LIV Golf Investments has pumped $300 million into the Asian Tour for “Worldwide Sequence” occasions. Whereas particulars on promotion and relegation weren’t introduced, gamers might earn their approach into the LIV Golf League by their efficiency in these Asian Tour occasions, whereas those that end towards the underside of LIV Golf occasions would get replaced.
The information launch stated LIV Golf League gamers are anticipated to compete in “quite a few” Worldwide Sequence occasions, which might imply enjoying greater than the 14 tournaments on the 2023 LIV Golf schedule. One enchantment for gamers who’ve signed up, comparable to Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson, was to play much less.
LIV Golf stated it will have 25 tournaments worldwide subsequent yr, which signifies a complete of 11 occasions on the Asian Tour. There are 4 “Worldwide Sequence” occasions on the Asian Tour schedule this yr. The information launch stated new Asian Tour stops would come with the Americas and Europe. This yr, the Asian Tour held an occasion in England per week earlier than the LIV Golf Invitational debut exterior London.
Norman stated LIV Golf and the “Worldwide Sequence” would play for $405 million in prize cash. With $25 million put aside for LIV Golf occasions, that will recommend Worldwide Sequence occasions would every have a $5 million purse.
The 12 four-man groups would keep the identical all year long. Captains will have the ability to construct their franchises to draw a fan following and sponsor curiosity. Howell and Casey are actually on a crew led by Bryson DeChambeau, and so they stated he reached out to them a number of months in the past about becoming a member of LIV Golf.
Reporting by the Related Press
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