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Wait....they're only playing 54 holes...and only 8 events?! That's the same number of holes played as playing in 6 PGA tournaments and making the cut in all 6....but that's it for your year. From our end raising the question of viable projections, too...

from https://www.sportingnews.com/us/golf...n96lj6nd0xadhn

What is the schedule for the LIV Golf Invitational Series?
This week’s opener is the first of eight events, spanning four countries and running until the team championship finale at Trump National Doral, Miami in October this year.

Course Location Date
1 Centurion Club Hertfordshire, England June 9-11
2 Pumpkin Ridge Portland, Oregon June 30 - July 2
3 Trump National Golf Club Bedminster Bedminster, New Jersey July 29-31
4 The International Boston, Massachusetts September 2-4
5 Rich Harvest Farms Chicago, Illinois September 16-18
6 Stonehill Bangkok, Thailand October 7-9
7 Royal Greens Golf & Country Club Jeddah, Saudi Arabia October 14-16
8 Trump National Golf Club Doral Miami, Florida October 27-30
LIV Golf format explained
The LIV Golf Invitational Series features two competitions that will take place concurrently: an individual event and a team event.

The first seven events will take place over the course of LIV Golf's four-month regular season. The eighth event will be the team championship in late October in Miami, where teams compete against one another in a matchplay format for the LIV Golf team trophy.

Individual event
The first seven LIV events will have an individual competition, where each golfer will compete in a strokeplay format over the course of 54 holes, as opposed to the standard 72-hole tour events.

There are no cuts and the golfer with the lowest score after 54 holes will be declared the winner. The events will feature shotgun starts - each player starting at the same time but at a different hole, as opposed to consecutive playing groups starting one after the other at the first.

On each day of the opening competition at Centurion Club, the golfers will make their shotgun starts at 14:00 BST. The trophy presentation is scheduled for 18:30 BST on Sunday, highlighting the compressed playing time that the shotgun format allows.


Team event
Each event will feature 12 teams made up of four golfers each, with LIV Golf appointing a captain to lead each team. Those captains will then select the other three players for their teams in a snake draft format each week, as was the case for the opener in London.

Captains will also select the lineup for each week. Each team will have its own logo, name and colours.

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Team scoring
During the first two rounds, each team's best two scores will be used to decide where they rank. That number rises to three in the third and final round.

The team championship in Miami will be a four-day, four-round match-play knockout bracket.

LIV Golf prize money
Each regular-season event features a $25 million purse (£20 million), with $20 million to be split over the 48 golfers taking part. The winner stands to make $4 million, with the player bringing up the rear in the no-cut format having the consolation of pocketing $120,000.

The remaining $5 million will go to the top three teams, with $3 million, $1.5 million and $500,000 covering the respective podium positions.

At the end of the individual events, players who have participated in at least four will divide a $30 million bonus pool. The individual champion will net $18 million, the second-place golfer $8 million, and the third-place $4 million.

The winning team after the season finale will receive $16 million, with the group in last place still able to split $1 million in tournament earnings.