LIV Golf

Led by captain Dustin Johnson, the all-American squad of Talor Gooch, Patrick Reed and Pat Perez successfully fended off Cameron Smith's Punch GC, translating a ...

Koepka carded four bogeys over a six-hole stretch while his brother Chase Koepka signed for a pair of double bogeys and sent their name down the leaderboard. All members of the 4 Aces will be eating good, but especially Johnson as his on-course earnings adds up to roughly $35 million for the season. With its victory at the 2022 LIV Golf Team Championship, the 4 Aces won a total of five times in its first season together. Despite the team championship turning into a two-team race, there were still plenty of pivotal moments unfolding late in the day. This total was enough to skirt past Punch GC by a single stroke and both the Crushers GC and Stinger GC with margin. Led by captain Dustin Johnson, the all-American squad of Talor Gooch, Patrick Reed and Pat Perez successfully fended off Cameron Smith's Punch GC, translating a memorable regular season into an even more lucrative year.

LIV Golf has reached its finale in Miami after an inaugural season that has caused a huge fracture in the sport - and the controversial venture now has big ...

And the famous Ryder Cup course is set to be announced as a new LIV venue this year, dealing a blow to DP World Tour chief Keith Pelley. A strategic alliance with the Middle Eastern and African Tour has not yet borne fruit and points would validate players joining as they will have a direct route to qualify for major championships. Seven new players are expected to join before the new season and the Guardian suggests that young American stars Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay have been whispered as possible targets. We have got to get on TV, we have to get corporate partners. However LIV president Atul Khosla is confident of a long-term TV deal that would provide the tour with a huge lift. Such eye-watering sums of money have opened the door to what once appeared a closed shop, with nearly £2billion pledged by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund to make the Gulf State a golfing pillar.

The inau LIV Golf Team Championship Standings Pat Perez and Dustin Johnson both stepped up down the stretch.Perez sank a long birdie putt on No.

Brooks Koepka, who started the round on the 10th tee, bogeyed the ninth hole and lost three more shots on his next five holes after making the turn. Early on, it looked like Sunday's final would be a two-horse race between 4 Aces and Smash GC, with the two teams creating some distance on the competition. Smith did his best to almost single-handedly lift Punch GC to the title. He finished at two over, which was enough to stymie the best efforts of teammates Smith, Matt Jones and Wade Ormsby. Marc Leishman was sitting at three over through two holes and added another bogey on No. 2 and then double-bogeyed No. For Stinger GC, the quest for the title was effectively over before the halfway mark after Branden Grace bogeyed No. One or two bad showings can torpedo a squad's hopes of finishing on top. Smith nailed a par putt to put the pressure squarely on Johnson. Swinging out of the rough to the right of the fairway, he deposited his approach into the gallery surrounding the green. LIV Golf @LIVGolfInv Perez sank a long birdie putt on No.

Johnson (70), Patrick Reed (70), Talor Gooch (71) and Pat Perez (70) shot a combined 7 under 281 on the par-72 Sunday - and split $16million.

'We´ve had a lot of headwinds,' LIV CEO and commissioner Greg Norman said on the streamed broadcast prior to the start of the final round. The majors remain in some question since much of the qualifying process for them revolves around world rankings. Reed's birdie gave his team the lead, and two putts from Johnson later, it was over. the majors,' Mickelson said during the LIV Golf broadcast on YouTube, doing the knock-on-wood-for-luck move before saying 'the majors.' 'And that´s a lot of golf. Including his $18million for winning the season-long individual title, Johnson finished with $35,637,767 in earnings. Smith (65), Matt Jones (70), Wade Ormsby (73) and Marc Leishman (74) finished at 6 under, splitting $8 million.

The Saudi-backed golf series, which will expand next year, has forced the PGA Tour to redesign its economic model. The drama between the two golf entities ...

But there were stars and some strain of competitive golf — and the PGA Tour’s logo nowhere to be found. The site of the team championship, run by the Trumps for years, was a PGA Tour mainstay for decades, and Trump courses are expected to be fixtures of LIV’s 2023 season. “They should have embraced instead of fighting,” he said of the PGA Tour after he played the 17th hole during a pro-am event. And the PGA Tour can still depict the series as a brutal regime’s project to look better on the global stage. Open starting next year, the upstart will have to find a way to diminish the siren songs of the green jacket and the claret jug. 1 ranking after a tour event last weekend, have been two of LIV Golf’s foremost critics — and two leading architects of a new strategy to fortify and reinvent a PGA Tour that had some popular players feeling undervalued and some younger ones struggling for financial breakthroughs. Its business model could expand to draw in new investors for LIV teams, and if the series can find a way into the world ranking system, its appeal among prospective players could rise further. (But perhaps Johnson does not mind all that much: He captured LIV’s individual championship and has won at least $30 million on the circuit this year, after accruing about $75 million in career earnings during a PGA Tour tenure that started in 2007.) What many golf executives are figuring out, though, is that it is possible to revile much about LIV, from its financial patron to its devotion to 54-hole tournaments to its defiant dispensing of starchy atmospheres, and yet recognize that the PGA Tour had left itself vulnerable to at least a spasm of drama. The PGA Tour, now redesigning its economic model so urgently that it is tapping reserve funds, still commands the bigger roster of current stars and the loyalties of the tournaments that matter most to history. It has not, though, been a romp without resistance or an instantaneous and definitive dethroning of the old order. The Saudi-backed golf series, which will expand next year, has forced the PGA Tour to redesign its economic model.

The Open champion Cameron Smith was in the final-day mix in Florida while Jordan Smith won the DP World Tour Portugal Masters.

Mickelson has lost sponsorship and even had to skip events celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Open. Players in that domain will spend the coming weeks scratching to save or earn tour cards. The level of golf itself was impressive. Highlights of the All Blacks against Japan in Tokyo on Saturday yielded 585,000 hits on YouTube alone. His competitive year closed on the outskirts of Miami, where his Punch side were edged out of LIV Golf’s team championship by 4Aces. “The whole season just got better and better,” Johnson said.

Johnson's birdie after driving the 370-yard 16th hole helped the 4 Aces to a one-shot win and a $16 million payout in a season of big money.

the majors,” Mickelson said during the LIV Golf broadcast on YouTube, doing the knock-on-wood-for-luck move before saying “the majors.” “And that’s a lot of golf. “We’ve weathered all the storms, and we’re here. “We’ve had a lot of headwinds,” LIV CEO and commissioner Greg Norman said on the streamed broadcast prior to the start of the final round. The payouts next year, when LIV grows from eight to 14 events, will reach $405 million. Smith (65), Matt Jones (70), Wade Ormsby (73) and Marc Leishman (74) finished at 6 under, splitting $8 million. Reed’s birdie gave his team the lead, and two putts from Johnson later, it was over.

Captain Dustin Johnson led the 4 Aces to the first LIV Golf team championship and the $16 million winner's purse on Sunday at Trump National Doral to bring ...

"It's been amazing. The format provided some compelling golf with the championship coming down to the final hole, Johnson draining a three-footer at the 18th after Reed had birdied his last hole to get 4 Aces to seven-under and a one shot lead over Smith's Punch GC. Captain Dustin Johnson led the 4 Aces to the first LIV Golf team championship and the $16 million winner's purse on Sunday at Trump National Doral to bring the curtain down on the Saudi-back venture's tumultuous inaugural season.

Dustin Johnson's 4Aces GC squad captured the season-ending LIV Golf team championship at Trump National Doral on Sunday in Florida, outlasting Cameron Smith ...

[Matt Jones](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/1367/matt-jones) (70), [Wade Ormsby](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/1489/wade-ormsby) (73) and [Marc Leishman](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/3351/marc-leishman) (74) finished at 6 under, splitting $8 million. We've got a great crew of people and we've got a great product and we're off and running." I've got a lot of golf coming up next year and I really want to get back to the level that I know I can play." The majors remain in some question since much of the qualifying process for them revolves around world rankings. "And that's a lot of golf. For now, LIV players don't get points toward their Official World Golf Ranking. "We've weathered all the storms, and we're here. The payouts next year, when LIV grows from eight to 14 events, will reach $405 million. Reed's birdie gave his team the lead, and 2 putts from Johnson later, it was over. Including his $18 million for winning the season-long individual title, Johnson finished with $35,637,767 in earnings. [Louis Oosthuizen](http://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/1293/louis-oosthuizen) (71), [Charl Schwartzel](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/1097/charl-schwartzel) (71), Hennie du Plessis (76) and [Branden Grace](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/4383/branden-grace) (80), finished at 10 over and split $4 million. Smash GC -- Koepka (74), [Peter Uihlein](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/1674/peter-uihlein) (75), [Jason Kokrak](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/3317/jason-kokrak) (68) and [Chase Koepka](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/10714/chase-koepka) (75) -- ended 4 over and split $6 million.

LIV Golf crowned a first team champion to bring the controversial Saudi-backed series to a close at Trump National Doral on Sunday, declaring the inaugural ...

"Whether you love them or hate them, there's a lot of guys here that people want to see. "And by the way a lot of other people are coming over, big names." "You look at the strength of the league now and you have a lot of really strong players and you have a lot of really strong characters in the game," said Mickelson.

Peter Uihlein and Talor Gooch may find new homes; also Martin Kaymer considers wrist treatment and Pat Perez gets comfortable at Trump National Doral.

“Claude (Harmon III) and I worked all week trying to hit shots and get the shots right, hit down the center so I could be really comfortable by yesterday,” Perez said Sunday; the 4 Aces' first round was Saturday. “I'm going to try to enjoy a little bit of an offseason first,” Gooch said prior to the final round, evading a question of a move. A moniker that does not please him in the least. That's why I'm saying I want to get through this before I start going and worried about any of that stuff.” That's kind of what you want to do.” Peter Uihlein is the high-flyer of free agency, finishing tied for second on the individual season-long points list and fourth in individual money at $5,814,786.

LIV Golf's season is over, and the 4 Aces split a $16 million purse at the team championship. But the question remains: Do you care?

Do you care about the high school volleyball team? Do you care about the Green Bay Packers? “But I’ve always loved the game. “Just a year ago, you walked away from this game. “‘When I wake up in the morning, it’s going to be pretty surreal,” Crowe said after the victory. The event, for which Augusta National and the R&A are ‘founding partners,’ was created just 13 years ago in an effort to strengthen the amateur game across Asia and the South Pacific. [Chase Koepka](https://golf.com/news/chase-koepka-trying-to-find-his-way/)? If you didn’t, you may still have; four-month-old LIV is still a curiosity, and other start-up leagues have needed years to find their following, and minds can change. You watch the high school volleyball team. [Brooks Koepka](https://golf.com/news/i-didnt-know-career-over-brooks-koepka-quitting/)? You watch the Green Bay Packers. The Crushers?

In his eight LIV starts in 2022, Dustin Johnson earned $35.6 million in on-course earnings and bonuses. Patrick Smith/LIV Golf. The disruption aspect ...

Augusta National has not made any public comment over LIV golfers playing in the Masters, and the USGA has not revealed any changes in its qualifying criteria that might prohibit LIV golfers from playing in the U.S. The PGA of America has hinted that LIV golfers won’t be eligible for the Ryder Cup, but nothing has been official said about the PGA Championship. “All of that that we’ve missed; it's the best and most attractive part of golf.” It’s also where rivalries can develop, said four-time major winner Koepka: “The teams format … LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman says that the circuit "weathered all the storms" in 2022. Moreover, the golf at times was not all that compelling, which may well explain the fact that LIV has still not landed a TV deal in the U.S. More controversy will no doubt arise as the lawsuit between LIV and the PGA Tour plays out in U.S. “We’ve weathered all the storms, and we’re here. LIV Golf’s launch, and its subsequent feud with the PGA Tour and DP World Tour evolved into the biggest story of the year not just in golf, but sports as a whole. Rumors abound of top players contemplating leaving the leaving the PGA Tour for the riches of LIV and its seven-, eight- and sometimes nine-figure guaranteed contracts. The biggest blow to the PGA Tour arguably came when it lost Smith in September after the Tour Championship. Top players did eventually defect from the PGA Tour, and that was the biggest vindication for LIV officials. “It ended up coming down to me and Cam playing the 18th hole to see who wins the team championship,” Johnson said.

While his 4 Aces team dominated all season, Perez' scores only counted six times in 18 rounds. But on Sunday he couldn't hide, and shot a solid 70.

I was going to have to be able to stand up on these holes and hit a shot.’’ Reed birdied his last hole and then (Johnson) came down and had to make a 4-footer. “I thought we had a one-shot lead there and P. To show how much it meant to Perez, he got to Doral on Oct. “I just do I don’t want to let them team down. “I mean, I don’t care. “I feel pressure every time,’’ he said. Perez’ 2-under-par 70 included a late birdie and an important par-save on his final hole as the 4 Aces won by a single shot over the Punch team captained by Cam Smith. Perez never made more than $4.5 million in any single season on the PGA Tour, a career that goes back 22 years. “I wasn’t exactly beating DJ when we were playing on the PGA Tour. I wasn’t beating the young kids out there. At one point during the LIV Golf Invitational Series season, the 4 Aces won consecutive team titles in Portland, Bedminster, Boston and Chicago.

Johnson, who earned a reported $150 million by signing up to the Saudi-backed venture, pockets another $4 million as his share of the team prize money to ...

"My team played unbelievable this year. I think this season went incredible and I think next season is going to be even better." I mean, I don't care. "All the pushback, all the negative comments, everything we've gotten, at this point, I really don't care. "Just look at what happened today," he said. That's all that matters," he said after shooting a two under-par 70 on the Doral Blue Monster course.

Links to all of Bob Harig's Weekly Read notes and more from the SI Golf team on a busy Sunday of golf from Miami to Bermuda and beyond.

[Punching Tickets to the Masters, DJ's LIV Haul and Phil Mickelson's Needle is Back](https://www.si.com/golf/news/punching-tickets-masters-dj-liv-haul-phil-mickelson-needle-is-back) [R&A CEO Won't Ban LIV Players from British Open, But May Tweak Qualifying](https://www.si.com/golf/news/r-a-ceo-wont-ban-liv-players-british-open-but-may-tweak-qualifying) [The Unintended Consequences of the PGA Tour's Elevated Events](https://www.si.com/golf/news/the-unintended-consequences-of-pga-tour-elevated-events) [Well, Bob Harig writes, they may not all be must-plays now as the Tour will allow players to skip one elevated Tour event](https://www.si.com/golf/news/the-unintended-consequences-of-pga-tour-elevated-events). On this page you'll find links to all of Bob Harig's Weekly Read notes plus Harig and Alex Miceli's coverage from the LIV Golf Team Championship. Bob Harig, who wrote about LIV Golf's

Iain Carter says there is a compelling argument to give the fledgling LIV Golf series the world ranking points it craves.

Perhaps Khosla is right, perhaps Johnson is among the top-five players in the world? As for his performances on the LIV Tour, where he posted one win and two third places, it is much harder to judge. It's like saying, here are the best cities in the world but London and New York don't get to participate in those rankings." There were 13 current LIV recruits in the top 50 then. It is an assertion of Trumpian proportions and not entirely based in fact; hype and tripe can often go hand in hand. Team-mate Pat Perez, individually the 49th ranked player of the 68 golfers to play LIV tournaments, competed in six of the season's eight events, banking more than $8m. It is up and running despite vehement opposition from the sport's establishment. Weighting points according to the shorter format and shallower line-ups involved should tell us each event's worth. Johnson, who pledged allegiance to the PGA Tour last February prompting the "dead in the water" claim, moved to LIV when he was on a relative slide, 11th in the world. LIV insists fans love it because they are seeing "the best players in the world". And after the conclusion of the start-up tour's inaugural season, it is clear LIV and the schisms it has created will dominate golf headlines over coming weeks as it seeks to add new recruits for its second campaign. From "dead in the water" in February to 16 golfers contesting almost £30m in a single day, LIV Golf has come a long way in a short space of time.