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2023 LIV Golf Singapore prize money payouts for each player and team

It pays to play well for LIV Golf.

Talor Gooch keeps on cashing in.

The 31-year-old Oklahoman guided his RangeGoats GC to a sweep this weekend at LIV Golf Singapore after winning his second consecutive event, this time via a playoff with Fireballs captain Sergio Garcia. The pair finished tied atop the leaderboard at 17 under at Sentosa Golf Club on Sentosa Island, Singapore, but it will be Gooch who leaves with the top prize of $4 million for his efforts. Over 13 LIV starts, Gooch has made $19,641,232.

Garcia will take home $2.25 million for his runner-up finish, while third-place Brooks Koepka, who finished one shot outside the playoff, earned $1.5  million.

Check out how much money each player and team earned at LIV Golf’s fifth event of its 2023 season.

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LIV Golf Singapore individual prize money

Position Player Score Earnings
1 Talor Gooch -17 $4,000,000
2 Sergio Garcia -17 $2,250,000
3 Brooks Koepka -16 $1,500,000
4 Scott Vincent -15 $1,000,000
5 Mito Pereira -14 $800,000
T6 Jason Kokrak -12 $655,000
T6 Cameron Smith -12 $655,000
T8 Joaquin Niemann -11 $468,333
T8 Charles Howell III -11 $468,333
T8 Harold Varner III -11 $468,333
T11 Peter Uihlein -10 $380,000
T11 Cameron Tringale -10 $380,000
T13 Phil Mickelson -9 $330,000
T13 Eugenio Chacarra -9 $330,000
T13 Patrick Reed -9 $330,000
T16 Louis Oosthuizen -8 $280,000
T16 Marc Leishman -8 $280,000
T16 Jediah Morgan -8 $280,000
T19 Bryson DeChambeau -7 $245,000
T19 Kevin Na -7 $245,000
T19 Anirban Lahiri -7 $245,000
T19 Carlos Ortiz -7 $245,000
T23 Dustin Johnson -6 $208,750
T23 Danny Lee -6 $208,750
T23 Bubba Watson -6 $208,750
T23 Thomas Pieters -6 $208,750
T27 Brendan Steele -5 $190,000
T27 Laurie Canter -5 $190,000
T27 Ian Poulter -5 $190,000
T30 Matt Jones -4 $175,000
T30 Henrik Stenson -4 $175,000
T30 Paul Casey -4 $175,000
T33 Sebastián Muñoz -3 $160,000
T33 Charl Schwartzel -3 $160,000
T33 David Puig -3 $160,000
T36 Richard Bland -2 $145,000
T36 Graeme McDowell -2 $145,000
T36 Bernd Wiesberger -2 $145,000
T36 Lee Westwood -2 $145,000
T36 Pat Perez -2 $145,000
T41 Martin Kaymer -1 $133,750
T41 Branden Grace -1 $133,750
T41 Matthew Wolff -1 $133,750
T41 Dean Burmester -1 $133,750
45 Sihwan Kim 1 $127,500
46 Chase Koepka 2 $125,000
47 Abraham Ancer 4 $122,500
48 James Piot 8 $120,000

LIV Golf Singapore team prize money

Place Team Score Earnings
1 RangeGoats GC -37 $3 million
2 Fireballs GC -34 $1.5 million
3 Crushers GC -32 $500,000

LIV owns a 75 percent stake in each franchise and provided teams with an undisclosed amount of operating capital for the year. The teams are expected to largely run on their own dime this season, with team prize earnings going directly towards its day-to-day costs.

The upstart circuit led by Greg Norman and backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has long been criticized as a way for the Kingdom to sportswash its controversial human rights record. Saudi Arabia has been accused of politically motivated killings, torture, forced disappearances and inhumane treatment of prisoners. Members of the royal family and Saudi government were accused of involvement in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist.

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Talor Gooch wins LIV Golf Singapore in playoff, RangeGoats claim team title

Gooch is LIV Golf’s first back-to-back winner and second two-time champion.

Talor Gooch is LIV Golf’s first back-to-back winner.

After nearly blowing a 10-shot lead last week in Australia, Gooch and Fireballs GC captain Sergio Garcia finished tied at 17 under after 54 holes, but it was the 31-year-old American who came out on top in the playoff for his second consecutive win on Sunday at Sentosa Golf Club on Sentosa Island. Brooks Koepka finished one shot outside the playoff in third at 16 under.

“I know that I’m not going to continue playing this level of golf forever. So you just enjoy it while it comes and try to make it last as long as you can,” said Gooch. “So you try to savor these moments and try to feel these feelings and emotions and try to remember ’em so that when they go away you can really get back as quickly as possible.”

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“We all believed that he could do this. We knew he could do this. And this is just the start of it,” said Gooch’s RangeGoats captain, Bubba Watson. “When you get a taste of it, you want more of it.”

It was a RangeGoats GC sweep in Singapore as the squad won their first team title at 37 under, three shots clear of Fireballs GC (-34) and five clear of third place Crushers GC (-32).

This week’s event, the fifth of LIV’s 14-event league season, was the first that Dustin Johnson’s 4Aces GC did not finish on the podium inside the top three. The 4Aces won the inaugural team title last year.

Laurie Canter made the third hole-in-one in LIV’s short history and second in as many weeks, this time on the par-3 17th.

“We couldn’t see it go in because the, it was just the way the light was on the green at the time. So kind of saw it bounce and heard like a sort of murmur that it was going to be a half-decent shot,” said Canter. “And then everyone up at the green went mental at it.”

After consecutive international tournaments LIV Golf will return to the United States in two weeks with back-to-back stateside events, first with LIV Golf Tulsa, May 12-14, at Cedar Ridge Country Club in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and then with LIV Golf D.C., May 26-28, at Trump National Golf Club in Potomac Falls, Virginia.

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‘He’s about 200 club lengths from where he was’: Brooks Koepka took relief in Singapore and left announcers confused

“You take them when you can get them. You get plenty of bad breaks. That’s a good one.”

There’s no doubt that Brooks Koepka is back to playing strong golf.

Since moving to play in the LIV Golf League, Koepka has won twice, the only golfer to do so, and even held the 54-hole lead at the Masters earlier this month before a final-round 75 (insert 72-hole tournament jokes here).

Even this week at LIV Golf Singapore at Sentosa Golf Club, Koepka finds himself a shot out of the lead heading into Sunday’s final round.

However, it’s a drop he took during the first round in Singapore that’s making the rounds. It even had LIV announcers questioning what was going on.

Let’s set the scene. Koepka was playing the par-4 15th hole measuring 428 yards when his tee shot went right. When reaching his ball, Koepka and his caddie, Ricky Elliott, said their line to the green was blocked by the LIV Golf Fan Village setup, so they asked for temporary immovable obstruction relief.

LIV on-course analyst Dom Boulet said on the CW live stream, “I’m not sure what he’s asking for,”  who then asked Elliott what was going on. Elliott confirmed Koepka was getting line-of-sight relief and he could drop on either side.

This still left commentators confused.

“It doesn’t appear there is anything between him and the hole,” David Feherty said.

Boutlet responded: “Well, there are toilets over there. Ricky just told me it’s line of sight. I think it’s the port-a-loos perhaps. But I didn’t think that was an option, to be honest with you. I mean, he’s got to go through a couple of trees to take that option.”

Koepka proceeded to pick up his ball and walk toward the 16th past some tents. It was there he spoke with a rule official on where he could take the drop.

“And under the local rule, he can take relief on either side of the TIO,” rules analyst Tony Zirpoli said on the broadcast. “It probably gives him a better shot. So, he’s taking the smart way out by taking that other side relief. And it’s also a long walk.”

Feherty added: “It sure is. It’s an unusual situation that there would be such a gap. He’s going to walk to the point, Tony, where he has a clear look?”

Boulet: “He’s going to drop in the middle of the 16th fairway.”

Zirpoli: “He will have a clear view of the edge of the TIO. He will then get a one club-length corridor, and then from that one club-length corridor, he gets an additional one club length, which is his relief area.”

Feherty: “Well, he’s about 200 club lengths from where he was.”

Koepka proceeded to drop his ball just on the 16th fairway.

“I heard Ricky say 167; that’s what they’re measuring it because that’s where they wanted to take relief — the same distance,” Boulet said. “Now I didn’t think it was an option what he had to go over there — port-a-loo or tent or whatever it was he was going over. But David Blake, referee, gave him the ruling, and he’s got a big break here.”

Added Feherty: “You take them when you can get them. You get plenty of bad breaks. That’s a good one.”

Koepka then hit his second shot over trees in front of him to 8 feet, and he two-putted for par.

Also during the Masters earlier this month, there was a rules controversy involving Koepka and Elliott and Gary Woodland. He was later absolved of the rules violation.

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The leaderboard at LIV Golf Singapore remains loaded, as Talor Gooch and Sergio Garcia pace the field with 18 to go

Talor Gooch is 32 under in his past five rounds. 

There have been plenty of big names who have hoisted a trophy through the LIV Golf League’s first two seasons, like Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka and Cameron Smith. But there hasn’t been a leaderboard as good as the one we’ve got in Singapore with 18 to play.

Sentosa Golf Club has provided great theater through two rounds of LIV Golf Singapore, as last week’s winner in Adelaide, Talor Gooch, and Sergio Garcia are tied for the lead at 13 under. Koepka, the only two-time winner on LIV, is a shot behind. Then there’s Smith at 11 under and Phil Mickelson, who at one time held the lead early in the second round after a hole-out eagle, at 10 under.

“Obviously the caliber of players here, it just shows,” Garcia said of the packed leaderboard. “On a day like today where there wasn’t much wind the course was gettable. We were able to pick the ball up on the fairway, so that always probably makes it one or two shots easier.”

Preferred lies were in play during round two because of wet course conditions. And Garcia, Gooch and others took advantage.

Garcia fired a bogey-free 7-under 64 to move into a tie for the lead. His best finish since moving to LIV Golf are a pair of fourths last season in Jeddah and Chicago.

Meanwhile, Gooch is looking to join Koepka as a two-time winner and the first back-to-back winner. He carded seven birdies and a lone bogey, signing for 6-under 65 to remain tied for the lead.

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“Sergio and I had a bunch of fun out there and Cam as well,” Gooch said. “Our group played really well again, and we were just kind of feeding off each other the whole day. It felt like Cam kind of got off running, and then I kind of came running in the middle, and then Sergio got it going on the back.”

Gooch is 32 under in his past five rounds.

Koepka shot 65 for the second straight day to sit a shot behind and earn a final-group tee time on Sunday. Mickelson was 5 under thru 5 holes and finished his day at 5 under for the round, but he’s solo seventh. Scott Vincent and Cameron Tringale are tied for fourth at 11 under with Smith, who is finding his form after a slow start to the season.

The second round will air on the CW from 1-6 p.m. Saturday. However, final-round action gets underway at 8 p.m. ET Saturday in the United States. The final round will also air on tape delay Sunday.

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