The 2025 Arab Tremendous League season will kick off from February 6 to eight in Saudi Arabia with the Liv Golf Riyadh and can finish on August 24 with the Group Championship scheduled in Michigan, USA. There can be a complete of 14 occasions, in 4 completely different continents with 9 completely different nations concerned. After Riyadh, listed below are Australia (Adelaide, February 14-16), Hong Kong (March 7-9), Singapore (March 14-16), Miami (April 4-6), Mexico (April 25-27), Korea (Could 2-4), Washington (June 6-8), Dallas (June 27-29), Spain (July 11-13), Nice Britain (July 25-27), Chicago (August 8-10) and Indianapolis (August 15-17), earlier than the grand finale.
Liv, historical past
In 2021, Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund Director Yasir Al-Rumayyan appointed former Australian golfer Greg Norman as CEO of a brand new males’s skilled golf tour, known as LIV Golf, with the intention of creating a form of “Tremendous League” and poaching many gamers from the world’s prime 100 and the PGA Tour. This tour has the help of Donald Trump, encouraging PGA Tour gamers to affix it, and hosts LIV Golf 5 occasions inside its properties on American territory within the first two years (Bedminster, Washington and Miami).
The primary version takes place from June to October 2022 round eight tournaments held in England, the US, Thailand and Saudi Arabia. The format is completely different from the PGA Tour, with three days of competitors for a 54-hole shotgun. Every competitors supplies a prize pool of $20 million for people and $5 million for groups, exceeding the prize swimming pools of all different PGA Tour tournaments. Criticized by the press, it however attracts many prestigious gamers and Grand Slam winners resembling Cameron Smith, Bryson DeChambeau, Branden Grace, Henrik Stenson, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Martin Kaymer, Ian Poulter, Louis Oosthuizen and Brooks Koepka, for big participation bonuses in tens of millions of {dollars}. They’re enhanced by two enormous stars of the self-discipline with Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson. Alternatively, Tiger Woods refuses the poaching regardless of a proposal of greater than $800 million. 2023: Second version
The second version takes place from February to October 2023 round fourteen tournaments going down in England, the US, Saudi Arabia as in 2022, with the addition of Mexico, Australia, Singapore and Spain. The prize cash stays at $20 million individually and $5 million in groups. New gamers be part of the circuit.
The third version takes place from February to October 2024 round fourteen tournaments going down in England, the US, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Australia, Singapore, Spain and the arrival of a brand new nation internet hosting the occasion: Hong Kong. The prize cash stays at $20 million individually and $5 million in groups. In December 2023, Spaniard Jon Rahm, ranked No. 3 on the planet and defending champion of the Augusta Masters, introduced his departure from the PGA Tour for LIV Golf3, making him the highest-paid athlete on the planet with a contract price round $450 million over 5 years, forward of Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. He was then the large switch with Lucas Herbert, Tyrrell Hatton and Adrian Meronk. The current winner of the American Open, Wyndham Clark, was additionally approached however he refused the supply, as did Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy, whose speculations indicated a proposal of $850 million through the year4.
