LIV Golf

The LIV Golf League is an international men’s professional golf tour, which features tournaments not only across the United States but around the world, including stops in Australia, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and more.

With some of the sport’s biggest names competing in this sleek, exciting new format for incredible prize money, you can expect fast-paced action and world-class drama.

📜 LIV Golf History

LIV Golf debuted in 2022, known then as the LIV Golf Invitational Series, emerging as a rival entity to well-established golf tours such as the PGA Tour and DP World Tour.

Talk of a rival league began in 2019 with the announcement of the “Premier Golf League.” However, when the PGL approached Saudi investors regarding a financial partnership, it emerged that Golf Saudi already had their own plan to establish an international golf tour, the “Super Golf League.”

The SGL was launched in 2021, rebranded as LIV Golf and led by golf legend Greg Norman, with the inaugural season taking place the following year.

💯 LIV Golf Format & Scoring

The LIV Golf season runs over the course of the calendar year from February to September or October.

Each event is comprised of 52 players divided into 13 teams of 4 and is played over 54 holes without a cut. They all feature a shotgun start, in which all teams will tee off simultaneously from different holes.

The regular season events are comprised of individual and team competitions, with players/teams competing for both points and a total prize purse of $25 million, divided into $20 million for the individuals (with the winner receiving $4 million through to the 52nd player taking home $50,000) and $5 million for the top 3 teams ($3 million, $1.5 million, and $500,000).

Individual competitions are scored in the traditional stroke play format, in which the player with the lowest number of strokes over the course of the event is the winner. In the team event, the best 2 stroke play scores will count for each team over the first 2 rounds, while in the third and final round the best 3 scores will count.

The final event of the season – the Team Championship – is held in a team match play format (whereby the winner of each match is determined by who won the most holes, rather than overall number of strokes) with the teams seeded based on their performance throughout the season.