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

It pays to play well for LIV Golf.

Dustin Johnson took down Cameron Smith and Branden Grace in a playoff to win LIV Golf Tulsa at Cedar Ridge Country Club.

For Johnson, a two-time major champion most recently at the 2020 Masters, this is his second victory on the Saudi Arabi-backed circuit, the first coming at LIV Golf Boston last season.

He’ll head into next week’s PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York, in good form (and with heavier pockets). His winner’s paycheck totals $4 million.

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

LIV Golf Tulsa: Photos | Leaderboard

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LIV Golf Tulsa individual prize money

Position Player Score Earnings
1 Dustin Johnson 17 under $4,000,000
T-2 Branden Grace 17 under $1,875,000
T-2 Cameron Smith 17 under $1,875,000
4 Harold Varner III 13 under $1,000,000
T-5 Bryson DeChambeau 12 under $703,333
T-5 Eugenio Chacarra 12 under $703,333
T-5 Brooks Koepka 12 under $703,333
T-8 Joaquin Niemann 11 under $468,333
T-8 Dean Burmester 11 under $468,333
T-8 Bubba Watson 11 under $468,333
T-11 Charles Howell III 10 under $350,000
T-11 Jason Kokrak 10 under $350,000
T-11 Brendan Steele 10 under $350,000
T-11 Anirban Lahiri 10 under $350,000
T-11 Patrick Reed 10 under $350,000
T-16 Thomas Pieters 9 under $285,000
T-16 Scott Vincent 9 under $285,000
T-18 Bernd Wiesberger 8 under $250,000
T-18 Cameron Tringale 8 under $250,000
T-18 Henrik Stenson 8 under $250,000
T-18 Ian Poulter 8 under $250,000
T-18 Pat Perez 8 under $250,000
T-23 Chase Koepka 7 under $200,714
T-23 Louis Oosthuizen 7 under $200,714
T-23 Richard Bland 7 under $200,714
T-23 Sergio Garcia 7 under $200,714
T-23 Peter Uihlein 7 under $200,714
T-23 Laurie Canter 7 under $200,714
T-23 Abraham Ancer 7 under $200,714
T-30 Sebastián Muñoz 6 under $170,000
T-30 Matt Jones 6 under $170,000
T-30 Matthew Wolff 6 under $170,000
T-30 Carlos Ortiz 6 under $170,000
T-30 Mito Pereira 6 under $170,000
35 Charl Schwartzel 5 under $155,000
T-36 Marc Leishman 4 under $146,250
T-36 Danny Lee 4 under $146,250
T-36 David Puig 4 under $146,250
T-36 Talor Gooch 4 under $146,250
T-40 Martin Kaymer 3 under $137,500
T-40 James Piot 3 under $137,500
T-40 Paul Casey 3 under $137,500
43 Sihwan Kim 2 under $132,500
44 Kevin Na 1 under $130,000
T-46 Graeme McDowell Even $126,250
T-46 Phil Mickelson Even $126,250
47 Jediah Morgan 1 under $130,000
– Lee Westwood W/D

Team payouts

Position Team/Members Score Earnings
1 Stinger GC (Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Dean Burmester) 40 under $3,000,000
2 4Aces GC (Dustin Johnson, Pat Perez, Patrick Reed, Peter Uihlein) 39 under $1,500,000
3 RangeGoats GC (Talor Gooch, Thomas Pieters, Bubba Watson, Harold Varner III) 35 under $500,000

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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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Dustin Johnson birdies first playoff hole to beat Cameron Smith, Branden Grace at LIV Golf Tulsa

It’s the second LIV victory for Johnson.

It took an extra hole, but Dustin Johnson did just enough to earn his second LIV Golf victory.

Johnson, the two-time major champion, birdied his final hole in regulation to get into a playoff with Cameron Smith and Branden Grace, and then he birdied the par-4 18th again to win LIV Golf Tulsa at Cedar Ridge Country Club.

Johnson knocked in his putt from just off the fringe, and he was the second player to go. Grace putted first, also from the fringe, and his narrowly missed to the left. Smith was the closest of the three, and his putt was off from the start, missing right.

It’s Johnson’s first victory since winning LIV Golf Boston last year. He led after 36 holes in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, at 14 under, and his 3-under 67 on Sunday was enough to get him in a playoff at 17 under.

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Johnson joins Talor Gooch, who has won the past two events, and Brooks Koepka as golfers to win twice in LIV’s first 14 events.

Smith shot a 9-under 61, tying the lowest round in LIV history, which Grace set Friday. Harold Varner III also shot 9 under on Sunday, placing fourth overall at 13 under.

In the team competition, it was Louis Oosthuizen’s Stinger GC with a one-shot victory over Johnson’s 4Aces GC. Stinger finished at 40 under. RangeGoats GC placed third at 35 under.

The next LIV event is in Washington D.C. at Trump National in two weeks.

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Lee Westwood withdraws before final round of LIV Golf Tulsa

“If you’re not going to go out there 100%, then there’s not really any point going out there.”

Lee Westwood was near the bottom of the leaderboard after two rounds of LIV Golf Tulsa after posting a 36-hole score of 2 under.

Before the final round at Cedar Ridge Country Club, Westwood withdrew from the event.

He told Dom Boulet he injured himself while running on the treadmill before Saturday’s second round.

“Rather than play today, just give it another day to recover,” he said. “If you’re not going to go out there 100%, then there’s not really any point going out there.”

Westwood added he’s confident he’ll be back for LIV Golf DC, slated for May 26-28 at Trump National Golf Club.

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LIV Golf Tulsa first round draws one of largest crowds in league’s short history: ‘Just shows we’re doing something right’

“I think this is probably the best one we’ve had in America, to be quite honest.”

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — There’s no questioning LIV Golf had its most successful event fan wise three weeks ago in Adelaide, Australia.

However, there may be a new top event in the United States.

Fans came out in droves for the first round of LIV Golf Tulsa. They braved rainy conditions at some times, as well. Golf fans in Oklahoma are one of the reasons LIV Golf decided to come to the state, and they turned out Friday to Cedar Ridge Country Club.

“I think this is probably the best one we’ve had in America, to be quite honest,” first-round leader Branden Grace said of the crowds. “In Australia it was fantastic. Singapore was really good, as well. We came out there with a warm welcome, and you come to Tulsa, the guys are really loving it out here. They’re sport hungry, or event hungry, if I can put it that way.

“I’ve heard for the first time in America where — the U.S. where you see where the guys are going to go this week; are they going to support the PGA Tour or come out to LIV, and I heard a hell of a lot more people saying they’re coming out to the LIV and seeing what it’s all about. Just shows we’re doing something right.”

LIV Golf Tulsa: Photos | Merchandise

There’s no official attendance, but LIV officials estimated at least 10,000 fans were going to be at the tournament each day. The number was that and possibly more during the first round.

Now, compared to the 2022 PGA Championship, which was held about 10 miles away at Southern Hills Country Club, the LIV Golf Tulsa crowd is minuscule, and it’s not quite fair to correlate the 14th event in the league’s history to a major championship. It does, however, compare more to the Senior PGA Championship that was held at Southern Hills in 2021.

It’s a sign of growth and interest, even with all of the commotion and controversy surrounding the league.

“The crowds were amazing, and the energy was great,” Brendan Steele said. “So exciting that everybody showed up and is having a great time out here because we think we have a great thing going, and I love to see people in new places come out and check it out.”

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Playing only 3 ½ hours north of the PGA Tour event in McKinney, Texas, this is the closest the two tours have competed near each other since LIV began play last June. But the location, being in a golf-crazed state like Oklahoma, is pivotal for LIV having one of its largest crowds yet.

Every player who talked with media after the round spoke about the crowds, including former Oklahoma State star Talor Gooch, who has won the past two LIV events.

“For the American events so far, Miami last year might have been the only one that felt like it was bigger than today from a crowd perspective,” Gooch said. “I was happy that Oklahoma turned out today.”

Added Dustin Johnson: “I think the crowds were great today. A lot of fans out there. There was a lot of support.”

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Photos: 2023 LIV Golf Tulsa at Cedar Ridge Country Club

Check out the best photos from LIV Golf Tulsa.

LIV Golf is back in the United States, living on Tulsa time the week before the PGA Championship.

Cedar Ridge Country Club in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, hosts 2023 LIV Golf Tulsa. The site sits about 10 miles from Southern Hills Country Club, which hosted the 2022 PGA Championship, and is about 4 hours north of the PGA Tour’s Byron Nelson in McKinney, Texas, this week.

The course hosted a U.S. Women’s Open in 1983 and an LPGA event from 2004-08. However, this time it’s where LIV makes its sixth appearance of 14 in the 2023 season.

Here’s a look at some of the best photos from LIV Golf Tulsa at Cedar Ridge.

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How did LIV Golf end up in Tulsa? College ties and a golf-crazed state are to thank

Cedar Ridge has a history of high-level golf.

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Talor Gooch and Charles Howell III were having a conversation during LIV Golf Bangkok last fall, discussing the future of the league.

LIV Golf’s plans weren’t secret. The league planned to expand its schedule beyond the eight events it held in its inaugural season, but nothing was set in stone yet.

The two former Oklahoma State golfers wanted to bring a professional event to Oklahoma, preferably somewhere in the Oklahoma City or Tulsa area. That prompted Howell to reach out to a few courses in the state.

“I relied heavily on Talor, who’s from here, who knows the golf courses in the areas better than I do, and that kind of started our conversation and started the conversation with LIV and those that help with the scheduling,” Howell said.

More LIV Tulsa: See what’s in the merchandise tent

Cedar Ridge Country Club, which sits in Broken Arrow, a southern suburb of Tulsa, is the site of this week’s LIV Golf event, the sixth of the season and a week before the PGA Championship in Western New York. However, it wasn’t the only course that LIV reached out to in Oklahoma.

LIV Golf reached out to Oak Tree National in Edmond, site of the 1988 PGA Championship, as well as Gaillardia Country Club in Oklahoma City. LIV Golf and Gaillardia, which has hosted PGA Tour Champions events, nearly had a deal in place before it fell through, leaving the door open for Cedar Ridge.

There were also a pair of courses LIV talked to in the Tulsa area, but it was Howell’s conversation with Billy Lowry, the president at Cedar Ridge, that propelled the conversation forward.

Cedar Ridge has a history of high-level golf. It hosted the 1983 U.S. Women’s Open, an LPGA event from 2004-08, and was a subsite for the 2009 U.S. Amateur, which was played mainly at Southern Hills Country Club, a mere 10 minutes from Cedar Ridge and the site of the 2022 PGA Championship.

“I knew it would work well. I know (fans) like their golf here,” Howell said. “You couldn’t write a better script with Talor winning the previous two events and coming back into his home state.”

Gooch is the first back-to-back winner on LIV, winning events in Adelaide and Singapore before an off week. Now, he’s back in Oklahoma, but there are plenty more golfers who have ties to the Sooner State.

Of LIV Golf’s 48 players, six played collegiately in Oklahoma: Howell, Gooch, Matthew Wolff, Peter Uihlein and Eugenio Chacarra played at Oklahoma State, and Abraham Ancer all played for Oklahoma. That’s one-eighth of the LIV field having a connection to Oklahoma.

“I think it’s such a great crowd for golf,” Ancer said. “We’re going to hear a lot of people supporting me and — well, I’m surrounded this week. I think we’ve got five or six Pokes out here this week, but I’m going to try my best to beat them.”

Added Chacarra: “I think the state of Oklahoma deserves good fields, good tournaments, and there’s going to be a lot of people.”

Come this week, Cameron Smith, Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and others will get another taste of Oklahoma golf, this time at Cedar Ridge when LIV Golf Tulsa gets underway Friday. For some, it’s a final tune-up before heading to Oak Hill next week.

LIV wanted to sign a two-year deal with Cedar Ridge, but the club only approved a one-year contract. The club and its membership have discussed building a new clubhouse with a hefty price tag, but the interest to host LIV Golf in Oklahoma remains even after this year.

LIV is expecting nearly 10,000 fans during the event, though forecasted rainy weather could hamper those numbers. Nevertheless, Oklahoma is a state with plenty of golf tradition, and Cedar Ridge will add to it this week by hosting LIV Golf.

“It’s all worked out really well for us,” Howell said. “I hope everybody has a wonderful week here. I think the fan support will be good, and hopefully, we can come back.”

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Photos: Merchandise at 2023 LIV Golf Tulsa at Cedar Ridge Country Club

Here’s a look at the merchandise from LIV Golf Tulsa at Cedar Ridge Country Club.

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Bryson DeChambeau spoke Thursday about the importance of growing his Crushers team brand.

It’s one of the selling points of LIV Golf, marketing teams as individual franchises. That includes branding, logos and merchandise, which is fully on display at the LIV Golf Tulsa merchandise tent at Cedar Ridge Country Club.

Inside, there are only a couple of items associated with Tulsa. However, the LIV logo and team apparel are ever present.

RangeGoats, 4Aces, Smash or Ripper, there are plenty of hats, shirts, towels and more for golf fans to take home.

Here’s a look at the merchandise from LIV Golf Tulsa at Cedar Ridge Country Club.

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Bryson DeChambeau removes his name from lawsuit with the PGA Tour, all 11 of the original players who filed the suit now are out

“Bryson wants to solely focus on competing at the highest level week in and week out.”

The LIV Golf 11, who sued the PGA Tour, are down to none.

Golfweek has learned that Bryson DeChambeau and Matt Jones, who were the last players still to have their names in the lawsuit between LIV and the PGA Tour after Peter Uihlein removed his name last week, have opted to do the same.

“Bryson has made the decision to remove himself from the ongoing litigation between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour,” DeChambeau’s agent Brett Falkoff confirmed in a text. “Bryson wants to solely focus on competing at the highest level week in and week out. He will continue to support the growth of golf and its expansion on a global scale, contributing both on and off the course as a positive influence on the game.”

When reached at this week’s LIV Tour event, DeChambeau, who is captain of the four-man team known as the Crushers, added, “I have a responsibility to grow the Crushers, grow my team, and I really need to focus on golf for the most part. It has been a bit of a focus of mine, but it has gotten to a point where it’s going to happen, no matter what. They’ll resolve it, it’ll be figured out one way or the other, and it’s not my fight. That’s my thought on it.”

Matt Jones, who was also prepping for this week’s LIV event, was asked by Golfweek why he elected to withdraw from the lawsuit now. “No reason at all,” he said.

The original lawsuit, which was issued for attempting to monopolize the sport and discourage competition from other leagues like LIV Golf, was filed in August of 2022 by Phil Mickelson and went on to include 10 other players. LIV Golf, which is almost exclusively financed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, joined as a plaintiff but has since taken the lead and now stands alone. The wealth fund, organized in 1971 as a means for the Saudi Arabian government to invest in various projects and companies, has been estimated to be worth over $650 billion.

It was just a few months ago that DeChambeau explained that he remained committed to the lawsuit because the Tour owed him $1.75 million from his Player Impact Program bonus, or half of the $3.5 million he said he should have earned for finishing fifth in 2021.

“It’s not about the money; it’s about the principle,” he told ESPN’s Mark Schlabach. “It’s the way you deal with situations.”

Uihlein removed his name from LIV Golf’s antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour, according to a Thursday filing in the U.S. Northern District of California.

LIV is back in action beginning Friday with LIV Golf Tulsa at Cedar Ridge Country Club in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

A PGA Tour spokesperson declined to comment at this time.

Cameron Jourdan added reporting to this story.

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