LIV_Golf_Invitational_Chicago

LIV Golf Chicago

LIV Golf Chicago

Professional golf tournament

The LIV Golf Chicago is a professional golf tournament held at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois, outside of Chicago.

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The inaugural event was held in September 2022 as part of the LIV Golf Invitational Series, a golf series led by Greg Norman and funded by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund. The 48-player field featured several former major championship including Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Charl Schwartzel, Patrick Reed and Sergio García,[1] and was won by 2022 Open champion Cameron Smith.[2]

Format

The tournament was a 54-hole individual stroke play event, with a team element. Four-man teams were announced on the Monday before the tournament, with a set number of their total scores counting for the team on each day. Each round commenced with a shotgun start, with the leaders beginning on the first hole for the final round, in order to finish on the eighteenth.[3]

Inaugural field

48 golfers participated in the inaugural LIV Chicago event.[lower-alpha 1]

Teams

  • 4 Aces GC: Johnson (c), Gooch, Perez, Reed
  • Cleeks GC: Kaymer (c), McDowell, Canter, Bland
  • Crusher GC: DeChambeau (c), Casey, Howell III, Lahiri
  • Fireball GC: García (c), Ancer, Ortiz, Chacarra
  • HY Flyers GC: Mickelson (c), Wiesberger, Wolff, Tringale
  • Iron Heads GC: Na (c), Kaewkanjana, Khongwatmai, Kim
  • Majesticks GC: Westwood (c), Stenson, Poulter, Horsfield
  • Niblicks GC: Swafford, Piot, Pettit, Varner III
  • Punch GC: Ormsby, Jones, Leishman, Smith
  • Smash GC: B. Koepka (c), C. Koepka, Kokrak, Uihlein
  • Stinger GC: Oosthuizen (c), Schwartzel, Grace, Norris
  • Torque GC: Niemann, Vincent, Puig, Morgan

Winners

Individual

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Team

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Notes

  1. (c) – Team captain
  2. LIV − LIV Golf League; MENA − MENA Tour.
  3. Paul Casey, Bryson DeChambeau (c), Charles Howell III and Anirban Lahiri
  4. Abraham Ancer, Eugenio Chacarra, Sergio García (c) and Carlos Ortiz
  5. Talor Gooch, Dustin Johnson (c), Pat Perez and Patrick Reed
  6. Brooks Koepka (c), Chase Koepka, Jason Kokrak and Peter Uihlein

References

  1. [1]
    "LIV Roster". LIV Golf. June 7, 2022. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
  2. [2]
    Priest, Evin (September 18, 2022). "Cam Smith wins LIV Golf's Chicago event, proves he's not 'a worse player' just because he switched tours". Golf Digest. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  3. [3]
    Scrivener, Peter (June 8, 2022). "LIV Golf - all you need to know about Saudi-funded series". BBC Sport. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
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