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2024 LIV Golf Adelaide prize money payouts for each player and team

It pays to play well in the Saudi-backed league. Just ask Brendan Steele.

It pays to play well in the LIV Golf League, just ask Brendan Steele.

The 41-year-old won for the first time on the Saudi-backed circuit on Sunday after a 4-under 68 in the final round at the Grange Golf Club to claim the league’s sixth event of the 2024 season, LIV Golf Adelaide.

For his efforts, Steele will take home the top prize of $4 million. Louis Oosthuizen, who finished a shot behind Steele at 17 under, banked $2,250,000 while five players finished T-3 and earned $920,000: Charl Schwartzel, Jon Rahm, Andy Ogletree, Joaquín Niemann, Dean Burmester.

Check out how much money each player and team earned at 2024 LIV Golf Adelaide.

Individual prize money

Position Player Score Earnings
1  Brendan Steele -18 $4,000,000
2  Louis Oosthuizen -17 $2,250,000
T3  Charl Schwartzel -16 $920,000
T3  Jon Rahm -16 $920,000
T3  Andy Ogletree -16 $920,000
T3  Joaquín Niemann -16 $920,000
T3  Dean Burmester -16 $920,000
8  Mito Pereira -15 $525,000
T9  Abraham Ancer -14 $385,500
T9  Brooks Koepka -14 $385,500
T9  Matt Jones -14 $385,500
T9  Jinichiro Kozuma -14 $385,500
T9  Danny Lee -14 $385,500
T14  Martin Kaymer -13 $275,000
T14  Lucas Herbert -13 $275,000
T14  Marc Leishman -13 $275,000
T14  Tyrrell Hatton -13 $275,000
T14  Thomas Pieters -13 $275,000
T14  Anirban Lahiri -13 $275,000
T14  Cameron Smith -13 $275,000
21  Cameron Tringale -12 $230,000
T22  Caleb Surratt -11 $206,250
T22  Richard Bland -11 $206,250
T22  Patrick Reed -11 $206,250
T22  Carlos Ortiz -11 $206,250
T26  Adrian Meronk -10 180,000
T26  Matthew Wolff -10 180,000
T26  Talor Gooch -10 180,000
T26  Bryson DeChambeau -10 180,000
T26  Charles Howell III -10 180,000
T31  Pat Perez -9 160,000
T31  Paul Casey -9 160,000
T31  Dustin Johnson -9 160,000
T34  Kevin Na -8 146,250
T34  Lee Westwood -8 146,250
T34  Bubba Watson -8 146,250
T34  Peter Uihlein -8 146,250
T38  Sebastián Muñoz -7 138,750
T38  Phil Mickelson -7 138,750
T40  Sergio Garcia -6 130,500
T40  Branden Grace -6 130,500
T40  David Puig -6 130,500
T40  Kalle Samooja -6 130,500
T40  Sam Horsfield -6 130,500
45  Eugenio Chacarra -5 125,000
T46  Graeme McDowell -4 123,750
T46  Scott Vincent -4 123,750
48  Harold Varner III -3 120,000
49  Jason Kokrak -2 $60,000
50  Kieran Vincent -1 $60,000
51  Henrik Stenson 3 $60,000
T52  Hudson Swafford 4 $50,000
T52  Ian Poulter 4 $50,000
54  Anthony Kim 6 $50,000

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Brendan Steele wins 2024 LIV Golf Adelaide, Cameron Smith’s Ripper GC claim first ever team playoff

For the first time in 28 tournaments a LIV Golf event came down to a team playoff.

After 28 tournaments a LIV Golf event finally came down to a team playoff.

Ripper GC, the all-Australian team led by Cameron Smith, beat the South African Stinger GC squad on the second playoff hole on Sunday to win 2024 LIV Golf Adelaide at the Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, Australia.

“This is unreal,” said Smith after the playoff alongside teammates and countrymen Marc Leishman, Matt Jones and Lucas Herbert. “It’s a dream come true for us.”

In LIV’s team playoff format, the lowest cumulative score wins, all four players compete and each score counts.

“You couldn’t have staged a better place to do the first playoff,” said Oosthuizen. “Probably couldn’t script it better with the Rippers winning. We had chances. We had two putts on the first hole. And I hit a good putt on the second playoff hole as well. Some days they go in, some days they don’t.”

On the individual side, 41-year-old Brendan Steele took home the trophy, and the $4 million first-place prize, after a 4-under 68 to win by one shot at 18 under over Stinger captain Louis Oosthuizen.

“Really surreal,” said Steele of his first win since the 2017 Safeway Open on the PGA Tour (now the Fortinet Championship). “I’m pretty overwhelmed, but to win this event is really special. I can’t say enough good things about the fans and the golf course and the whole experience this week.”

According to LIV, more than 90,000 fans attended the tournament over the three days of play.

Oosthuizen (65) finished at 17 under just ahead of five players T-3 at 16 under: Andy Ogletree (65), Jon Rahm (64), Charl Schwartzel (64), Dean Burmester (67) and Joaquin Niemann (66).

The league heads to Sentosa Golf Club next week, May 3-5, for 2024 LIV Golf Singapore, where Talor Gooch and RangeGoats GC will look to defend their individual and team titles.

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Watch: Lucas Herbert’s caddie gets dinked in head by bottle at LIV Golf Adelaide’s Watering Hole

Keep your head on a swivel.

Keep your head on a swivel.

That’s what LIV Golf is likely to be telling its players and caddies heading into Sunday’s final round of LIV Golf Adelaide at The Grange Golf Club in Australia, where Brendan Steele sits at 14 under after the second round and one in front of Danny Lee heading to Sunday. Aussie favorite Cameron Smith sits only three shots back.

The fans at the Adelaide event have been the best for LIV Golf now for the second straight year, with people coming in droves Down Under to watch professional golf. With its own rendition of a party hole, the “Watering Hole,” there have also been plenty of scenes getting a bit too rowdy for a golf tournament, but who says we can’t have some fun?

However, as is the case often times when alcohol is involved, some fans took it way too far Saturday. Aussie Lucas Herbert was lining up a 6-foot par putt and knocked it in on the Watering Hole, and fans went berserk. So much so that when his caddie was putting the flag stick in the hole, he got smoked in the head by a bottle and went down.

All for fans celebrating and having fun at golf tournaments. That’s fun to watch and be a part of. But throwing things intentionally near players and caddies? Yeah, no thank you.

Here’s to hoping Herbert’s caddie survived the headshot. Herbert is 6 under after two rounds of play.

Carlos Ortiz and Mito Pereira are at 12 under individually, two back. In the team competition, Torque GC leads at 35 under by one over HyFlyers GC and IronHeads GC.

Jinichiro Kozuma leads the way after round one of LIV Golf Adelaide 2024

Catch up on the first-round action here.

The LIV Golf League is Down Under this week at The Grange Golf Club in Australia, and Jinichiro Kozuma holds a one-shot lead at 9 under. 

Kozuma made seven birdies and an eagle during his bogey-free effort and will tee off Saturday one shot ahead of Carlos Ortiz (8 under) and Danny Lee (8 under). Lee and Kozuma are both team members of Iron Heads GC.

“Today my putting was really good,” Kozuma told the media after signing his card. “It was really hot. I had some troubles here and there, but my putting was there to help me get through pars, and it was all about the putting today.”

Mito Pereira, Peter Uihlein, Andy Ogletree and Anirban Lahiri are tied for seventh at 7 under, while Matt Jones and Brendan Steele share eighth place at 6 under.

More: It’s a wild scene again at LIV Golf Adelaide. Here are the photos to prove it

As for the big names, Jon Rahm and Joaquin Niemann are 5 under and Bryson DeChambeau and Cam Smith are 4 under.

On the team side, Torque GC is 20 under and one shot ahead of the Iron Heads.

It’s a wild scene again at LIV Golf Adelaide. Here are the photos to prove it

A year ago, LIV Golf Adelaide was considered the upstart circuit’s largest and most successful event.

A year ago, LIV Golf Adelaide was considered the upstart circuit’s largest and most successful event as thousands of golf fans flocked to a party hole with a DJ, and the team competition came down to the wire.

By all accounts, LIV’s first stop in Australia was a success. But how would the 2024 event fare? It appears to be another hit as crowds gathered for the opening round of play on Friday at The Grange Golf Club.

“Last year was unbelievable, as well. It’s just good. I didn’t notice too much of a difference, but it was just more on every hole rather than a couple of … maybe the holes on the back,” Marc Leishman said after the opening round of play. “The atmosphere was good everywhere, though. I think we were both better for a runner end of last year, used that experience to kind of ease our way into the week early and then know sort of what to expect.”

Here’s a look at the event: