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What is LIV Golf? Players, field, tour schedule, news for league with Cameron Smith, Dustin Johnson

Everything to know about the pga tour's newest rival.

LIV Golf is now more than halfway through its inaugural season after completion of play in Chicago. Making headlines both on and off the golf course, LIV Golf has taken its battle to the courtroom, social media and beyond. While the actual play in LIV Golf has been compelling at times, the overall structure, presence and future of the organization remains its most intriguing component in the context of men's professional golf.

Plenty of questions have been answered since its inaugural event in London from June 9-11, but still more remain without a response. What will the future of this rival tour look like? How will the team aspect of the competition clash with the individual side? Will LIV Golf be able to recruit some of the best players in the world with its Official World Golf Rankings status in the air? Is a court date with the PGA Tour inevitable?

At every step along the way, answers about this league have only produced more questions and clarification has only made the future more complicated. 

The breakdown below is our attempt to share with you everything that's known to this point as we head into the whatever LIV Golf is going to look like in the future. Whether this turns out to be a fork or bump in the road of professional golf remains to be seen (only the future will retroactively determine that), but it does feel monumental in the moment.

LIV Golf, empowered by its unlimited war chest of resources to throw at the best players, is officially at odds with the PGA Tour. It's a period of time that has been promised for a long time, and is finally taking place. Let's take a look at what we know and what we can expect in the weeks, months and years ahead as LIV Golf wraps up its first season at the end of October.

What is LIV Golf?

LIV Golf is a rival golf league to the PGA Tour where the tournaments consist of 54 holes, the fields are limited to 48 golfers and the purses are an astronomical $25 million. Twelve, four-man teams will compete in each event, and the individual purses will be $20 million while the other $5 million will be divided up among the best teams each week.

Who leads LIV Golf?

LIV Golf Investments runs the league, and its CEO is two-time major champion Greg Norman. It is funded by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, which is effectively the financial arm of the Saudi Arabian government. These funds are seemingly limitless as the league has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to players just to guarantee their appearances at the LIV Golf Invitational Series events.

Who is playing for LIV Golf?

It began with Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson headlining the London event and has since grown into a respectable roster. Major champions Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau and Patrick Reed quickly followed the lead of their fellow Americans. 

More recently, and more importantly, world No. 3 and Champion Golfer of the Year Cameron Smith made the leap after the completion of the 2022 Tour Championship. He was joined by young Chilean Joaquin Niemann as two international players who chose to forgo the Presidents Cup in lieu of playing in the LIV Golf event in Boston. While the initial demographics skewed towards older players like Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood and Mickelson, there has been an influx of younger talent with Abraham Ancer and Harold Varner III among others.

Here's a look at the 49 men who currently play for LIV Golf and their Official World Golf Rankings (Bubba Watson is a non-playing captain and is set to compete once fully recovered from injury).

What is going on legally between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour?

Originally, 11 LIV Golf players were a part of an antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour. This suit also sought a temporary restraining order for Hudson Swafford, Matt Jones and Talor Gooch to participate in the 2021-22 FedEx Cup Playoffs -- which was ultimately denied and barred them from playing in the PGA Tour postseason.

Since then, slowly but surely, more and more of the original members have removed their names from the lawsuit. Previously, Ancer, Carlos Ortiz, Jason Kokrak and Pat Perez left the suit. More recently, Talor Gooch, Mickelson, Poulter and Swafford followed in their footsteps. 

This leaves only three players seeking punitive damages in a legal battle with the PGA Tour: Bryson DeChambeau, Peter Uihlein and Jones. The trial is set to begin in January 2024.

The Tour has over and over again pointed back to its rules and regulations in this matter and remains set on keeping those who have played on LIV Golf off the PGA Tour. Commissioner Jay Monahan was asked at the Tour Championship if there was any chance LIV Golf members would be welcomed back onto the PGA Tour to which he blatantly answered, "no."

How has the PGA Tour reacted to LIV Golf?

After a players-only meeting at the BMW Championship led by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, sweeping changes have been made to the PGA Tour schedule and the treatment of its star players. Here are the spark notes of this new-look PGA Tour starting this season.

• Top players will commit to at least 20 PGA Tour events:  These tournaments will include the eight elevated events as previously designated, four additional elevated events with purses of at least $20 million (to be announced), The Players Championship, the four major championships and three other FedEx Cup events of players' choosing.
• The PIP will be expanded:  The PIP has been increased from the top 10 players to the top 20 for 2022 and 2023. Not only has the player pool expanded, so has the prize pool, which will now total $100 million, double the $50 million previously announced. It is from these top 20 lists that "top players" will be defined.
• Modifications  made for Lifetime Membership:  No longer will 15 seasons of membership be necessary. Once a player reaches 20 wins, he will be eligible. With this change, McIlroy has secured his lifetime membership with Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth only being a handful of wins away.

Will LIV Golf receive Official World Golf Rankings points?

LIV Golf is still awaiting the status of its OWGR application despite its best attempts to expedite the process. All 49 players recently sent a letter to the OWGR chairman requesting that world ranking points be retroactively applied to its events. Comparing the OWGR without LIV to college football without the SEC or FIFA without Belgium, it is unlikely this holds any merit. 

Meanwhile, players have begun to tee it up on the DP World Tour with some consistency on weeks in which there is no LIV Golf event. The top 50 players in the OWGR at the end of the calendar year will be invited to the 2023 Masters making it a mad dash for players to accumulate as many points as possible before then.

Will the majors allow golfers to play?

That's an even better question that has at least some clarity.  The answer in the short term is: yes . The major organizations -- PGA of America, USGA, R&A and Augusta National -- likely won't announce suspensions or bans of players who participate. There is a potential that qualifying criterias are modified in the future, however as of now if a LIV player gains entry through previous exemptions or the adequate OWGR (points which LIV has yet to secure) he should be able to compete.

What is the LIV Golf schedule?

Five events have already taken place in 2022, with three remaining. Here's a look at what's left on the schedule for the inaugural season.

• Bangkok, Thailand: Oct. 7-9
• Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Oct. 14-16
• Miami, Florida: Oct. 27-30

LIV Golf has released a tentative schedule for 2023 with 14 stops around the globe spanning Washington D.C., Spain and Australia.  This is unofficial as details have yet to be confirmed.

• February: Florida (course TBD)
• February: California (course TBD)
• March: Tucson (Dove Mountain or the Gallery)
• April: Australia (Sydney or Queensland)
• April: Singapore (Sentosa)
• May: Washington D.C. (CBS Sports can confirm Trump National DC the week after PGA Championship)
• June: Philadelphia (course TBD)
• July: London (Centurion)
• July: Spain (Valderrama the week before The Open)
• August: New Jersey (Trump National Bedminster)
• August: West Virginia (The Greenbrier)
• September: Chicago (course TBD)
• September: Toronto or Mexico (course TBD)
• September: Florida (Trump National Doral)

What does LIV Golf's season finale look like?

It will not look like the Tour Championship, that is for certain. Taking place from Oct. 28-30, the top four teams in LIV will receive a bye on the first day while teams 5-12 will compete in match-play competitions with the higher-ranked teams selecting their opponents. For each matchup, three matches consisting of two singles matches and one alternate-shot match will take place.

The same format will be used for Day 2 of competition with the four victors from Day 1 and the four teams which received a bye all playing. From there, the four winners from Day 2 will advance to the final stage which will be different.

The four winning teams will compete in stroke play on the final day of competition. All 16 players will compete and all four scores will count towards the team's score. The lowest team score will be crowned the LIV Golf Invitational Series Team Champion.

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100 rounds in, LIV Golf has made significant impact on PGA Tour in one critical area | D'Angelo

LIV Golf marked its 100th round Friday since the controversial league stunned the industry 26 months ago.

The idea, hatched by Palm Beach Gardens' Greg Norman, took off once Saudi Arabia, through its Public Investment Fund, agreed to throw billions of dollars at the project.

LIV touted this venture as one that would grow golf by taking the league's unique, untraditional format globally. And while that can be questioned, what cannot be disputed is LIV has gotten the attention of the PGA Tour, and directly affected its finances and economics, and the money being directed toward golfers.

"We've changed the face of golf," Bubba Watson said Wednesday, ahead of this weekend's LIV event at Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. "So to be on that side of history is pretty special."

Watson then compared this to when Jack Nicklaus was instrumental in the first big split in professional golf that led to the forming of the PGA Tour in 1968. Nicklaus, though, strongly disagrees that the two are even related.

Scheffler can thank LIV for record earnings

Either way, Watson is spot-on when he says, "Scottie Scheffler has made a lot of money this year because of the changes that we've started putting in place."

LIV's impact on the PGA Tour has been significant. Every move the tour has made in the past two years to infuse money into the game, including the creation of Signature Events, more events with $20-$25 million purses, and pouring money into the Player Impact Program, has been a reaction to LIV and its endless stream of Saudi money.

One way to reduce the number of players jumping to LIV is to compete financially. The tour did that by pumping millions into its purses and billions into the game with a $3 billion deal with Strategic Sports Group that includes an initial investment of $1.5 billion into the launch of a commercial venture, PGA Tour Enterprises.

Scheffler has made $28.1 million this year in prize money with two $20 million purses, St. Jude and BMW championships, remaining ahead of the Tour Championship that will distribute $100 million, $25 million to the winner.

By the end of the season, Scheffler could make five to seven times what the tour's top earner made in 2020-21, the year before LIV debuted. That does not include his share of the $50 million that will be distributed through the Player Impact Program, which rewards players for brand exposure.

In 2021, Jon Rahm topped the PGA Tour money list with $7.7 million. Rahm is LIV's most recent blockbuster signing, luring the Spaniard with a reported $350 million deal that could surpass $550 million after bonuses.

Joaquin Niemann LIV's money leader in 2024

Joaquin Niemann is LIV's prize money leader in 2024 with $14.2 million through 12 of the 13 individual events. LIV concludes its season with the team championship on Sept. 20-22 at Maridoe, north of Dallas.

The prize money, though, is not the biggest lure for the handful of marquee golfers who made the jump to LIV. What got their attention was the massive contracts, especially those reportedly for at least $100 million that went to Rahm, Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson and Cameron Smith.

"Things need to evolve. Things need to change," LIV's Patrick Reed said Wednesday. "I feel like that's what LIV is. They've stepped into a world that was all about tradition only and changed the face of golf for the better. And I feel like with LIV, we're now allowed to touch a lot broader and better way of golf. Golf is boring, slow, long, and we've now brought in the fast and more entertaining part of life."

While LIV certainly has impacted the sport where it matters most for the players, in their bank accounts, other areas have not been as consequential.

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LIV's format, which includes 13 four-man teams playing 54 holes with no cut, has not taken off as hoped. While LIV golfers praise the team aspect, which does add a piece of additional drama and "family" atmosphere, the league continues to struggle to attract viewers and has been hurt by the OWGR board denying LIV's application to receive ranking points.

Despite that, money talks, and nobody can dismiss how much more of an impact LIV could have on the sport regardless of whether a deal is reached with the PGA Tour. Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said this week that the two sides will continue to operate separately next year, casting doubt that a deal is anywhere close.

"When people start to see the true value that we're bringing, that intrinsic value is only going to exponentiate over the course of time, which is what I'm excited for," DeChambeau said. "I'm waiting for that kind of domino effect, for it to start falling in that cool direction that we see here on our side at LIV, especially with the team aspect."

Tom D'Angelo is a senior sports columnist and golf reporter for The Palm Beach Post. He can be reached at [email protected].

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WATCH: Senate panel examines merger between PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf

WASHINGTON (AP) — The negotiators of a business deal between the PGA Tour and the Saudi funders of LIV Golf discussed ousting LIV chief executive Greg Norman and giving Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy their own LIV teams, according to  documents obtained by Congress .

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Those were among the many proposals to unify golf’s rival factions that representatives of the PGA Tour and the Saudi government discussed this spring during their hasty negotiations. The talks culminated in a  framework agreement  announced last month between the tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.

Details of those talks were made public ahead of a hearing Tuesday by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which is looking into the agreement because of the geopolitical implications of Saudi investment in American sports.

“We’re here because we’re concerned about what it means for an authoritarian government to use its wealth to capture an American institution,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., the subcommittee chairman.

The Saudis have agreed to invest “north of $1 billion” into a new for-profit company the tour intends to create, Ron Price, the PGA Tour’s chief operating officer, testified at the hearing.

Blumenthal repeatedly pressed Price and Jimmy Dunne, a PGA Tour board member and a key negotiator of the Saudi deal, on why the tour did not seek alternative sources of funding to compete with LIV Golf and its backer, Saudi Arabia’s $600 billion Public Investment Fund. In response, Price and Dunne said going into business with outside investors would not prevent LIV Golf and the PIF from continuing to compete with the tour and use its vast resources to sign top players.

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“My entire concern here is to put this divisive period behind us, and for the sake of players, fans, sponsors and charities, unite the game of golf again,” Dunne said.

The deal to bring Saudi investment into the PGA Tour shocked the golf world and also has invited scrutiny from the Justice Department, which is looking into potential antitrust violations.

“There is something that stinks about this path that you’re on right now because it is a surrender, and it is all about the money, and that is the reason for the backlash that you’re seeing, Mr. Price,” Blumenthal said. “The equity ownership interest that the Saudis will have … gives them financial dominance. They control the purse strings.”

Critics of the Saudi investment in golf have pointed to the kingdom’s poor human rights record and the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which U.S. intelligence concluded was likely approved by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, an allegation the crown prince denies. The PIF has bought its way into other sports including soccer — it owns Newcastle United of the English Premier League — and Formula One racing.

Republicans on the committee, including ranking member Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, were less critical of the tour leaders for negotiating with the Saudis and expressed reservations about Congress getting involved in a private business deal that hasn’t been completed. Johnson suggested that Saudi involvement in sports ultimately could improve human rights in the kingdom.

“If the kingdom’s involvement in golf and other sports helps it to modernize or offer rights to women, wouldn’t that be a good thing?” Johnson said.

The documents released by the subcommittee also detail the roles of people on the Saudi side of the negotiations, notably Amanda Staveley, a British investment banker who helped broker the Newcastle deal and now sits on the team’s board, and Roger Devlin, a British businessman. Devlin was the first to approach Dunne about the prospect of a deal between the tour and LIV, the documents show.

READ MORE: With LIV-PGA deal, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince makes dramatic move to extend kingdom’s influence

A memo from Staveley’s firm titled “The Best of Both Worlds” includes the proposal that Woods and McIlroy take ownership of LIV teams and that each of them play in 10 LIV events per year. There is no indication in the documents that either Woods or McIlroy, both of whom remained loyal to the PGA Tour in its dispute with LIV, were ever informed of the idea.

Woods has played only twice this year and is recovering from ankle surgery to address complications from a car crash in Los Angeles in early 2021 that he has said will severely limit his playing schedule going forward.

Among the other proposals included in the memo are a mixed-gender, LIV-style team event with qualifying in Saudi Arabia and concluding in Dubai; awarding world ranking points to LIV events, including retroactively; and PIF sponsorship of two elevated PGA Tour events, including one in Saudi Arabia.

None of those proposals was included in the framework agreement that Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of the PIF, and PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan signed on June 6. The agreement called for the parties to drop all lawsuits and to combine the commercial interests of the PGA Tour, LIV and the European tour into a new, for-profit company while maintaining the PGA Tour’s nonprofit status.

The proposal to replace Norman as LIV’s CEO was included in a side agreement that was negotiated ahead of the announcement but was never executed. Asked by Blumenthal whether Norman was out of a job, Price said that if the tour and the PIF complete their business deal, the tour would control LIV and Norman’s job would be eliminated.

“We would no longer have a requirement for that type of position,” Price said.

Emails obtained by the committee showed that Dunne and fellow PGA Tour board member Ed Herlihy discussed with Monahan the prospect of Dunne and Herlihy replacing Norman.

Norman remains in the CEO role, although he has been largely sidelined as the public face of LIV since the deal was announced. He was invited to testify at Tuesday’s hearing along with Al-Rumayyan; both declined. Monahan also did not testify because he is recovering from an unspecified medical situation that kept him out of work for a month; he has said he plans to return next week.

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SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — To the surprise of many observers, Tyrrell Hatton is in the field for this week’s Betfred British Masters at The Belfry. That’s unusual because the three-time European Ryder Cup player joined the LIV Golf League at the start of this year and hasn’t played a regular DP World Tour event since the Hero Dubai Desert in January.

Since then, Hatton, a member of the Legion XIII team, has competed in 12 LIV events, recording five top-10 finishes in addition to his lone victory in Nashville in late June . His worst finish (25th) came at the most recent event at The Greenbrier earlier this month and he’s made $10.6 million in individual earnings to date. In team events, the 32-year old Englishman has been more successful. Alongside Jon Rahm, Kieran Vincent and Caleb Surratt, Hatton has been part of four LIV victories so far in 2024.

Still, what’s going on? Amidst the now long-time acrimony between LIV and the DP World Tour, how can Hatton be playing on both sides of that particularly high fence?

The answer is both simple and almost endlessly complicated. Hatton, winner of six events and $24.4 million on the Old World circuit, continues to be a DP World Tour member and, as such, is technically able to enter any and all events on the Old World circuit. But every time he plays in a LIV event that clashes with a DP World Tour tournament, Hatton becomes liable to sanctions under the Wentworth-based circuit’s rules and regulations. Those penalties include fines and suspensions from future events.

Which is clear enough. But the question is then worth repeating: How and why is Hatton allowed to play this week at The Belfry? The answer is again to be found in the DP World Tour rulebook.

“Tyrrell has a pending appeal against sanctions imposed on him for breaching the DP World Tour’s Conflicting Tournament Regulation and in accordance with the DP World Tour’s Regulations, he is eligible to participate in the Betfred British Masters,” explains a tour spokesperson.

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Such a situation is the same as that faced by the likes of Henrik Stenson, Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood (among others) when they appealed against similar sanctions imposed on the initial wave of players who jumped from the DP World Tour to LIV in June 2022. Those players were able to compete until April 2023 when the arbitration body, Sport Resolutions U.K., found in favor of the tour and ratified its right to impose disciplinary sanctions on the “rebel” players.

In other words, as Hatton remains a current member of the DP World Tour and has previously served any and all suspensions imposed on him, he is not suspended from this week’s event in his homeland. Plus, payment of any fines levied against him are at least temporarily stayed until the outcome of the appeal process is known. Which, as of today, it is not.

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TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Atlanta.

Course: East Lake GC. Yardage: 7,490. Par: 71.

Prize money: $100 million. Winner’s share: $25 million.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 1-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 1-2:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 2:30-7 p.m. (NBC); Sunday, noon to 1:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 1:30-6 p.m. (NBC).

Defending champion: Viktor Hovland.

FedEx Cup leader: Scottie Scheffler.

Last week: Keegan Bradley won the BMW Championship.

Notes: Scottie Scheffler is the No. 1 seed for the third straight year, meaning he starts at East Lake at 10-under par with a two-shot lead. He has yet to win the FedEx Cup. ... The top 30 players include nine players who have never reached the Tour Championship. That includes Ludvig Aberg of Sweden and Shane Lowry of Ireland. ... The biggest story going in is East Lake, which has gone through a renovation project led by Andrew Green. It now plays to a par 71, with the 14th hole now 580 yards and a par 5. ... Xander Schauffele has never had a round over par in his seven previous trips to East Lake, with 25 of those rounds in the 60s. ... Players who reach the Tour Championship are assured spots in three of the four majors, and are virtually certain to be in the PGA Championship. ... The winner gets $25 million that does not count as official money. Second place is worth $12.5 million, while 30th pays $550,000.

Next tournament: Procore Championship on Sept. 12-15.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/

FM CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Norton, Massachusetts.

Course: TPC Boston. Yardage: 6,598. Par: 72.

Prize money: $3.8 million. Winner’s share: $570,000.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 3-6 p.m. (NBC Sports app), 7-9 p.m. (Golf Channel-tape delay). Saturday, 2:30-5:30 p.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 1:30-4:30 p.m. (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: New tournament.

Race to CME Globe leader: Nelly Korda.

Last week: Lydia Ko won the AIG Women’s British Open.

Notes: The new tournament on the LPGA schedule already has raised the prize fund so it ranks only below the majors and the CME Group Tour Championship. ... FM has provided free lodging for the players and is paying a $1,000 stipend to anyone missing the cut. ... The TPC Boston held a PGA Tour event from 2003 through 2018. It then held a FedEx Cup playoff event in 2020. ... Fifteen different players have won the last 16 majors on the LPGA Tour. The only multiple winner is Lilia Vu, who won two majors last year. ... With her win at the Women’s British Open, Lydia Ko became the fourth multiple winner on the LPGA this year. The others are Nelly Korda with six, and two apiece for Lauren Coughlin and Hannah Green. The LPGA Tour does not consider the Olympics as an official victory, even though it counted toward Ko getting into the LPGA Hall of Fame.

Next tournament: Solheim Cup on Sept. 13-15.

Online: https://www.lpga.com/

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Site: Sutton Coldfield, England.

Course: The Belfry (Brabazon). Yardage: 7,336. Par: 72.

Prize money: $3.5 million. Winner’s share: $583,333.

Television: Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Golf Channel); Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (NBC Sports app); Saturday, 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (NBC Sports app); Sunday, 7 a.m. to noon (NBC Sports app).

Defending champion: Daniel Hillier.

Race to Dubai leader: Rory McIlroy.

Last week: Frederic LaCroix won the Danish Golf Championship.

Notes: The tournament hosted by Nick Faldo is the official start of the Ryder Cup points list for Team Europe. The standings will end Aug. 24, 2025. Players earn various points on the European Tour and PGA Tour. ... Tyrrell Hatton, who defected to LIV Golf at the start of the year, is playing his first European tour event since the Hero Dubai Desert Classic in January, before he left for LIV. ... The Belfry is best known for hosting the Ryder Cup three times. The most recent was in 2002 when Europe won. ... This is the fourth straight year for the tournament being held at The Belfry. ... Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald is in the field. Hatton is the only player from Donald’s winning 2023 team at Marco Simone. ... The tournament has been part of the European tour schedule since 1972. Bob Charles was the inaugural winner.

Next week: Omega European Masters.

Online: https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/

PGA Tour Champions

Last week: Stewart Cink won The Ally Challenge.

Next week: Ascension Charity Classic.

Charles Schwab Cup leader: Ernie Els.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions

LIV Golf League

Last tournament: Brooks Koepka won LIV Golf Greenbrier.

Next tournament: LIV Golf Chicago on Sept. 13-15.

Points leader: Joaquin Niemann.

Online: https://www.livgolf.com/

Korn Ferry Tour

Last week: Matt McCarty won the Albertsons Boise Open.

Next tournament: Simmons Bank Open.

Points leader: Matt McCarty.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-tour

Other tours

USGA: Curtis Cup, Sunningdale GC, Sunningdale, England. Defending champion: United States. Television: Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 12:30-1:30 p.m. (Peacock); Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel), noon to 1 p.m. (Peacock); Sunday, 5-10:30 a.m. (Golf Channel). Online: https://www.usga.org/

Epson Tour: Four Winds Invitational, South Bend CC, South Bend, Indiana. Previous winner: Gabriela Ruffels. Online: https://www.epsontour.com/

Japan Golf Tour: Fujisankei Classic, Fujizakura CC, Yamanashi, Japan. Defending champion: Takumi Kanaya. Online: https://www.jgto.org/en/

Asian Tour: Mandiri Indonesia Open, Damai Indah Golf (PIK), Jakarta, Indonesia. Defending champion: Nitithorn Thippong. Online: https://asiantour.com/

KPMG Women’s Irish Open, Carton House (O’Meara), County Kildare, Ireland. Defending champion: Smilla Tarning Soenderby. Online: https://ladieseuropeantour.com/

Challenge Tour: Rosa Challenge Tour, Rosa GC, Konopiska, Poland. Defending champion: New tournament. Online: https://www.europeantour.com/challenge-tour/

PGA Tour Americas: CRMC Championship, Cragun’s Legacy Course, Brainerd, Minnesota. Defending champion: New tournament. Online: https://www.pgatour.com/americas

Sunshine Tour: Gary & Vivienne Player Challenge, Kyalami CC, Midrand, South Africa. Defending champion: Gerhard Pepler. Online: https://sunshinetour.com/

Japan LPGA: Golf5 Ladies, Golf 5 CC (Mizunami), Gifu, Japan. Defending champion: Kokona Sakurai. Online: https://www.lpga.or.jp/en/

Korea LPGA: KG Ladies Open, Sunning Point CC, Gyeonggi, South Korea. Defending champion: Yeungjung Seo. Online: https://klpga.co.kr/

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DP World Tour: Frederic LaCroix claims maiden victory with four-shot win at Danish Golf Championship

Frederic LaCroix finished four clear of Lucas Bjerregaard and Romain Langasque; Bjerregaard was searching for a first DP World Tour victory since 2018; Watch the Betfred British Masters live from Thursday on Sky Sports Golf

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Frederic LaCroix stormed to a maiden DP World Tour title after a stunning four-shot victory at the Danish Golf Championship, as Lucas Bjerregaard faded on the final day.

The Frenchman overturned a four-stroke deficit during an eventful Sunday at Lübker Golf Resort, where a brilliant bogey-free 65 saw him finish on 14 under and claim the biggest win of his career.

LaCroix pulled clear overnight leader Bjerregaard, who missed out on a first DP World Tour title in six years, with the Dane ending the week tied-second on 10 under alongside Romain Langasque.

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Vive la France 🇫🇷🏆 Frederic Lacroix wins his first DP World Tour title and makes it successive French victories on Tour. #DanishGolf pic.twitter.com/mNxK8FAfmG — DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) August 25, 2024

"I'm very happy with what that today," LaCroix said. "I've been close a few times, especially this year, and I've just been improving slowly but steadily over the last few years. I've kept doing my thing and it's nice to see it all coming together with a win today."

Bjerregaard started the day two ahead and opened with a birdie at the par-five first, only to fail to get up and down from off the green at the second and three-putt from long-range at the next to card back-to-back bogeys.

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The Dane holed from the fringe to birdie the fifth but missed from six feet to save par at the next, then racked up a double-bogey at the par-four eighth after finding trees off the tee and having to take a penalty drop.

LaCroix - playing in the group ahead - charged up the leaderboard by taking advantage of the opening hole, birdieing the fifth and firing his tee shot at the par-three seventh to tap-in range, putting him one ahead of compatriots Langasque and David Ravatto at the turn.

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The world No 213 holed from the fringe at the par-five tenth to start his back nine with a birdie, took advantage of the driveable 12th and rolled in from 15 feet at the 15th to extend his advantage, before closing out the biggest win of his career with three straight pars.

Frederic Lacroix claims a first Tour title and becomes the first French winner of the Danish Golf Championship 🏆 #DanishGolf pic.twitter.com/3mcmV0aJVL — DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) August 25, 2024

Langasque had reached the turn in level-par and added one birdie with one bogey on the back nine, while Bjerregaard made back-to-back birdies from the 12th before dropping a shot at the 16th to post a final-round 73.

Ravatto's four-under 67 lifted him to fourth spot, while England's Joe Dean jumped into a share of fifth after matching his total to end the week six strokes back.

What's next?

The DP World Tour heads to the UK for the Betfred British Masters hosted by Sir Nick Faldo, with the opening event of the "Back 9" schedule at The Belfry also marking the start of the race to qualify for Team Europe's next Ryder Cup team.

Watch the opening round live on Thursday from 12.30pm on Sky Sports Golf, with the Tour Championship, KPMG Women's Irish Open, FM Championship and Curtis Cup also live on sky Sports. Stream the DP World Tour, PGA Tour and more sport with NOW .

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29 - 01 Sep 2024

Betfred British Masters hosted by Sir Nick Faldo

The Belfry, Sutton Coldfield, England

How to watch the Betfred British Masters hosted by Sir Nick Faldo 

European Tour Productions, the DP World Tour’s in-house production company, will produce and distribute live coverage of the Betfred British Masters hosted by Sir Nick Faldo .

Following the completion of the Closing Swing - the last of five Global Swings, this week marks the start of the Back 9.

The nine events, which include some of the most historic events on the DP World Tour, provide increased opportunities to earn Race to Dubai Ranking Points as players look to earn qualification into the final two events on the 2024 schedule: The DP World Tour Play-Offs.

The top 70 in the season-long Race to Dubai Rankings at the end of the Back 9 phase of the season will gain qualification into the DP World Tour Play-Offs. Players can qualify throughout the Back 9, as they earn enough points to guarantee their position in the top 70.

The quest to make Luke Donald's European team for the 2025 Ryder Cup also gets under way this week, with six automatic qualification spots available between now and Sunday August 24 next year.

Daniel Hillier claimed his first DP World Tour title at the Betfred British Masters 13 months ago when he produced a fantastic finish, going eagle-birdie-eagle from the 15th before a nerveless par at the 18th, to celebrate a two-shot victory.

Jesper Svensson and Thriston Lawrence, who sit third and fourth respectively on the Race to Dubai Rankings in Partnership with Rolex, are among those in action this week at The Belfry, while there are a host home hopes, including recent first-time DP World Tour winner Harry Hall along with Tyrrell Hatton, Danny Willett, Matt Wallace and Donald among the recognisable names teeing it up.

Add in exciting 16-year-old amateur Kris Kim and resurgent fan favourite Andrew 'Beef' Johnston, and the locals should have plenty to cheer about in Sutton Coldfield.

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Global Broadcast Transmission Times

Below are the listed Broadcast Transmission times for the Betfred British Masters hosted by Sir Nick Faldo in local time in England, and for the general World Feed coverage (time in GMT). Find out below where to watch in your area.

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Where can you watch coverage of the DP World Tour in your area?

For specific broadcast timings of these territories please check your local listings.

Who is part of the commentary team?

Dominik Holyer will lead the commentary team and he will be joined in the box by Sam Torrance and Ken Brown, while Tony Johnstone and tournament host Sir Nick Faldo will also be providing analysis.

Anthony Wall and Jamie Spence will be providing on-course commentary, with Inci Mehmet speaking to the players in round.

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