2022 LIV Golf Invitational Series

The 2022 LIV Golf Invitational Series was the first season of the LIV Golf Invitational Series. The season consisted of seven 54-hole tournaments, featuring 48 players and no cut, and a team championship event at the season end.

2022 LIV Golf Invitational Series season
Duration9 June 2022 (2022-06-09) – 30 October 2022 (2022-10-30)
Number of official events8
Individual champion Dustin Johnson
Team champions4 Aces GC[lower-alpha 1]
Money winner Dustin Johnson
2023 →

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]

DateTournamentHost countryPurse (US$)WinnerOther
tours[lower-alpha 2]		Notes
IndividualTeamIndividualTeam
11 JunLIV Golf Invitational LondonEngland20,000,0005,000,000 Charl Schwartzel (1)Stinger GC[lower-alpha 3]
2 JulLIV Golf Invitational PortlandUnited States20,000,0005,000,000 Branden Grace (1)4 Aces GC[lower-alpha 1]
31 JulLIV Golf Invitational BedminsterUnited States20,000,0005,000,000 Henrik Stenson (1)4 Aces GC[lower-alpha 1]
4 SepLIV Golf Invitational BostonUnited States20,000,0005,000,000 Dustin Johnson (1)4 Aces GC[lower-alpha 1]
18 SepLIV Golf Invitational ChicagoUnited States20,000,0005,000,000 Cameron Smith (1)4 Aces GC[lower-alpha 1]
9 OctLIV Golf Invitational BangkokThailand20,000,0005,000,000 Eugenio Chacarra (1)Fireballs GC[lower-alpha 4]MENA
16 OctLIV Golf Invitational JeddahSaudi Arabia20,000,0005,000,000 Brooks Koepka (1)Smash GC[lower-alpha 5]MENA
30 OctLIV Golf Invitational MiamiUnited Statesn/a50,000,000n/a4 Aces GC[lower-alpha 1]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.

Final individual points standings:[9]

Position Player Events Points
1 Dustin Johnson7135
2 Branden Grace779
3 Peter Uihlein779
4 Patrick Reed679
5 Charl Schwartzel766

Team

Final team points standings:[10]

PositionTeamPoints
14 Aces152
2Crushers96
3Fireballs93
4Stinger72
5Smash62

Money leaders

Final standings of leading players in the money list:[11][12]

Position Player Events Prize money ($)
IndividualTeamBonusTotal
1 Dustin Johnson 8 10,575,267 7,062,500 18,000,000 35,637,767
2 Branden Grace 8 6,509,666 2,125,000 8,000,000 16,634,666
3 Peter Uihlein 8 5,814,786 3,000,000 4,000,000 12,814,786
4 Patrick Reed 7 5,148,214 7,062,500 12,210,714
5 Talor Gooch 8 3,312,001 7,062,500 10,374,501

Awards
AwardWinner(s)Ref.
Individual champion Dustin Johnson[13]
Team champions4 Aces GC[lower-alpha 1][14]
Money winner Dustin Johnson[15]

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

References
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  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.
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  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 18 October 2022.
  10. "Team standings". LIV Golf. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  11. "LIV Golf Money Leaders". The San Diego Union Tribune. Associated Press. 17 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  12. Jerram, Rob (17 October 2022). "LIV Golf prize money: How much every player has earned so far". Today's Golfer.
  13. "LIV Golf: Inaugural champion Dustin Johnson receives £16.2m in prize money". BBC Sport. 10 October 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  14. McDonald, Patrick (30 October 2022). "2022 LIV Golf in Miami leaderboard, scores: Dustin Johnson's 4 Aces GC wins inaugural team championship". CBS Sport. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  15. D'Angelo, Tom (31 October 2022). "Dustin Johnson not satisfied with banking $35.6 million and sweeping LIV Golf's triple crown". Yahoo! Sport. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
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