2022 LIV Golf Invitational Series

The 2022 LIV Golf Invitational Series was the inaugural season of LIV Golf. The season consisted of seven 54-hole tournaments, featuring 48 players and no cut, with 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 points listUnited States Dustin Johnson
Team champions4 Aces GC[lower-alpha 1]
Money listUnited States Dustin Johnson
2023 →

Development

On 17 March 2022, the first eight tournament schedule with prize money of US$255,000,000 was announced by Greg Norman. The 54-hole tournaments had no cut and featured 48 players drafted into 12 four-man teams, with shotgun starts. The first seven events had $20 million purses with an additional $5 million split among the top three teams each week; a team championship concluded 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

LIV Golf broadcast events on its website and on its own YouTube and Facebook pages. Arlo White served as lead broadcaster with pundits Jerry Foltz and Dom Boulet. Su-Ann Heng served as an on-course reporter and Troy Mullins was 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., LIV Golf 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 was under the purview of Warner Bros. Discovery, which served as the tour's major broadcaster overseas, which would have effectively prevented them from airing LIV Golf due to its animosity.[6] Likewise, PGA Tour media partners 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][1]

DateTournamentHost countryPurse (US$)Winner[lower-alpha 2]Other
tours[lower-alpha 3]		Notes
IndividualTeamIndividualTeam
11 JunLIV Golf Invitational LondonEngland20,000,0005,000,000South Africa Charl Schwartzel (1)Stinger GC[lower-alpha 4]
2 JulLIV Golf Invitational PortlandUnited States20,000,0005,000,000South Africa Branden Grace (1)4 Aces GC[lower-alpha 1]
31 JulLIV Golf Invitational BedminsterUnited States20,000,0005,000,000Sweden Henrik Stenson (1)4 Aces GC[lower-alpha 1]
4 SepLIV Golf Invitational BostonUnited States20,000,0005,000,000United States Dustin Johnson (1)4 Aces GC[lower-alpha 1]
18 SepLIV Golf Invitational ChicagoUnited States20,000,0005,000,000Australia Cameron Smith (1)4 Aces GC[lower-alpha 1]
9 OctLIV Golf Invitational BangkokThailand20,000,0005,000,000Spain Eugenio Chacarra (1)Fireballs GC[lower-alpha 5]MENA
16 OctLIV Golf Invitational JeddahSaudi Arabia20,000,0005,000,000United States Brooks Koepka (1)Smash GC[lower-alpha 6]MENA
30 OctLIV Golf Invitational MiamiUnited Statesn/a50,000,000n/a4 Aces GC[lower-alpha 1]Team Championship

Points list

Individual points list

The individual points list was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.[9][10]

Position Player Points
1United States Dustin Johnson135
2South Africa Branden Grace79
3United States Peter Uihlein79
4United States Patrick Reed79
5South Africa Charl Schwartzel66

Team points list

The team points list was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.[11][12]

PositionTeamPointsTC finish
14 Aces GC1521st
2Crushers GC96T5
3Fireballs GC93T5
4Stinger GC724th
5Smash GC623rd

Money list

The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars.[13][14][15]

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

Notes
  1. Talor Gooch, Dustin Johnson, Pat Perez and Patrick Reed
  2. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of LIV Golf Invitational Series events they had won up to and including that tournament.
  3. MENA − MENA Tour.
  4. Hennie du Plessis, Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel
  5. Abraham Ancer, Eugenio Chacarra, Sergio García and Carlos Ortiz
  6. Brooks Koepka, Chase Koepka, Jason Kokrak and Peter Uihlein

References
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  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.
  5. Bain, Mark (18 July 2022). "Northern Irish golf pundit David Feherty to move to LIV Golf to become an analyst". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  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. "2022 Tournament schedule". LIV Golf. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  9. "Individual standings". LIV Golf. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  10. "LIV Golf: Inaugural champion Dustin Johnson receives £16.2m in prize money". BBC Sport. 10 October 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022. It's an honour to be LIV's first individual season champion.
  11. "Team standings". LIV Golf. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  12. 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.
  13. "Individual prize earnings". LIV Golf. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  14. Jerram, Rob (17 October 2022). "LIV Golf prize money: How much every player has earned so far". Today's Golfer. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  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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