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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.

LIV Golf announces return to Australia as first part of 2024 schedule release

LIV Golf is returning to the Grange Golf Club in April of 2024.

Loads of fans, a party hole with a DJ, a close team competition down the stretch and Patrick Reed drinking from a shoe made LIV Golf Adelaide 2023 the upstart circuit’s quintessential event.

Commissioner and CEO Greg Norman and South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas announced on Friday the league is hoping to rekindle that atmosphere by returning to the Grange Golf Club, April 26-28, 2024. LIV Golf Adelaide is the first event on the 2024 schedule to be announced and will be held the same week as the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

“That’s what LIV should be, in its heart and its DNA, I think that’s what it can be every single week, and will be when people start understanding what the real deal is here,” said DeChambeau of league’s Aussie debut back in April. When it came to fanfare and entertainment, Adelaide was by far LIV’s best event of 2023.

“The inaugural event drew tens of thousands of attendees from interstate and overseas and saw tickets snapped up almost as quickly as they were released,” said Zoe Bettison, the South Australian Minister for Tourism, via a release.

An economic impact report stated that of the 77,076 attendees across the event, 41 percent of ticket purchasers came from out-of-state. Hospitality tickets for LIV Golf Adelaide 2024 go on sale Nov. 15.

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Photos: Talor Gooch through the years

View photos of Talor Gooch throughout his career.

Talor Gooch has gone from being a promising player on the PGA Tour to an under-the-radar face of LIV Golf in a blink of an eye.

Born and raised just outside of Oklahoma City, Gooch played collegiately at Oklahoma State. Turning professional in 2014, Gooch earned his way to the big time by playing on PGA Tour Canada in 2015 and ’16 before making it onto the now-Korn Ferry Tour in 2017.

Earning his PGA Tour card via the money list, Gooch made 12 of 27 cuts during his 2017-18 rookie season. Slowly gaining momentum and coming into form, Gooch finally broke through at the 2021 RSM Classic for his first PGA Tour win.

Soon after, Gooch joined LIV Golf in early 2022 becoming one of the first PGA Tour players to defect to the Saudi-backed golf league.

Originally a part of the 4 Aces alongside Dustin Johnson, Pat Perez and Patrick Reed, Gooch was signed to the Range Goats for the 2023 season. In April of ’23, Gooch picked up his first LIV win in Adelaide, Australia.

With the win and a long track record of game improvement over the years, don’t be surprised if you see his name among the top of leaderboards at majors this season.

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What’s next for LIV Golf: League will look to replicate its success in Australia at other events, but it won’t be easy

“There’s no stopping LIV Golf now. It’s on a vertical trajectory,” said Phil Mickelson.

LIV Golf Adelaide was the upstart circuit’s quintessential event: tens of thousands of starved golf fans, a party hole with a DJ and a team competition that came down to the wire.

By all accounts, LIV’s first stop in Australia was a success. But can they replicate that effort at other events going forward? Players like Crushers GC captain Bryson DeChambeau seem to think so.

“That’s what LIV should be, in its heart and its DNA, I think that’s what it can be every single week, and will be when people start understanding what the real deal is here,” said DeChambeau of last week’s event ahead of LIV Golf Singapore this week at Sentosa Golf Club. “There’s been a lot of controversy and a lot of things going on, but we are here to play golf, and we are here to do the best we possibly can every single week, and it was fun seeing the fans support us.”

The fan support Down Under was strong, there’s no denying that. Adelaide aside, last year’s Team Championship in Miami at Trump National Doral was LIV’s best-attended event. It wasn’t a Donald Trump rally like the event at his Bedminster property last summer, and fans showed up in droves compared to other LIV events. This year, however, the Team Championship has been moved from Miami to Saudi Arabia, where beer showers around a party hole are more than unlikely, they’re illegal.

Even this week’s event in Singapore will be a stark difference to what fans saw in Australia. DeChambeau expects 6,000-7,000 fans per day, which is less than half of Adelaide’s daily turnout.

“I think it’s going to continue to grow and grow exponentially, just the attractiveness of what the product is, sort of creating that festival type atmosphere,” said Cameron Tringale. “That’s what people want. I think the next generation is looking more for a good time, and to be entertained, just as much as they are for quality golf, and you get both of them with LIV.”

Cameron Smith admitted LIV fields aren’t very deep at the Masters, and Phil Mickelson has pointed out that LIV was smart not to just go after great players like Smith and Dustin Johnson, but also the characters in the game like himself, DeChambeau and Patrick Reed.

“Whether you love them or hate them, they’re interesting and people want to watch,” said Mickelson.

“Now a lot of other countries are wanting us to go there, so it was a big step in Adelaide in showcasing what it can be, what LIV Golf can be,” he added. “There’s no stopping LIV Golf now. It’s on a vertical trajectory, and it’s pretty exciting to be a part of it.”

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LIV Golf is proud of its disruptive nature, and players are still taking shots across the professional golf aisle. However, some players are already starting to see the mood shift towards LIV just 12 events in.

“I think the tide is changing. People are starting to see how (much) fun we are having, the team aspect, the competition at a high level,” said RangeGoats GC captain Bubba Watson. “I think it’s definitely changing … everybody has their ideas of what golf should look like but we are changing it and I think we are changing it for the better.”

As the schedule currently stands, it will be impossible to replicate the scenes in Australia at all 14 events, and maybe that’s a good thing. Watson noted how golf was missing a team atmosphere and that fans love the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, “so why not do it all year round?”

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What makes the cup events special apart from national and regional pride is the fact that they aren’t every year. Anticipation builds. Not every LIV event will be a spectacle, especially if host countries and venues aren’t changed. That said, fans have seen what LIV can do in a short time thanks to the deep pockets of the Public Investment Fund, and LIV has plans to continue to grow.

“We are talking about having teams from different parts of the world. We are talking about having our own golf courses that, basically, we’ll call them our stadiums. We are talking about having golf academies to help young golfers, but also young golfers that want to play at our level, just like any other sports team around the world,” said Watson. “So there’s a lot of dreams and aspirations and a lot of things that we’ve already accomplished in less than a year, but we still want to keep going forward.”

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Dustin Johnson claims he didn’t say quote attributed to him bashing PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan

“Dustin remains grateful for his time on the PGA Tour and has the utmost respect for Commissioner Monahan.”

After his 4 Aces won the team portion of LIV Golf Adelaide on Sunday, Dustin Johnson reportedly took some shots at the PGA Tour and specifically Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan.

“We don’t give a damn how he feels. We know how he feels about us, so it’s mutual,” Johnson told the Australian Associated Press.

On Monday, David Winkle, the CEO and President of Hambric Sports, which represents Johnson along with other golfers such as Brooks Koepka and Scottie Scheffler, sent an email to more than 20 journalists and voices that cover the game and claimed it was an “erroneous quote.”

“I spoke with Dustin from Singapore this morning at which time he emphatically denied making any such statement. He elaborated by saying his actual response to the question was “no comment,” but mentioned that others interviewed may have answered differently,” Winkle wrote. “Dustin remains grateful for his time on the PGA Tour and has the utmost respect for Commissioner Monahan.”

Johnson resigned his PGA Tour membership in June after reportedly signing a deal that exceeded $100 million to join LIV Golf. Of the former Tour stars who have left for the breakaway tour, Johnson has been careful not to bash the circuit that helped make him a star in the game. He went 5-0 at the last Ryder Cup for Team USA and is considered the most likely LIV golfer to be considered for the U.S. team that will attempt to retain the Cup on foreign soil later this year if LIV players are selected for the team.

There was no mention in the email of walking back comments Johnson made about Talor Gooch, his former 4 Aces teammate who jumped to the RangeGoats and claimed the individual title.

“Well, yeah, I didn’t want him to win. I never want any other team to win than mine,” Johnson told media. “Yeah, obviously I like Talor, and he did really well for us last year, and obviously he played great this week. But yeah, I’m glad we snipped him, for sure, just to give it to him a little bit more.”

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Watch: Aussie fans go wild as Chase Koepka makes ace at LIV Golf Adelaide’s ‘Watering Hole’

“A once-in-a-lifetime experience,” said Koepka. “It’s something to always remember.”

LIV Golf unveiled its party hole – named the Watering Hole – at the Grange Golf Club over the weekend at LIV Golf Adelaide in Australia.

Similar to the WM Phoenix Open’s “The Coliseum” par-3 16th, there was plenty of fun to be had at the Watering Hole thanks to numerous bars, and of course, a DJ (it is “Golf, But Louder” after all). And just like the PGA Tour stop in Phoenix, the Aussie fans absolutely erupted when an ace was made.

On Sunday, fans showered Smash GC’s Chase Koepka with beer when he aced the par-3 12th for just the second hole-in-one in LIV’s short history.

“A once-in-a-lifetime experience,” said Koepka. “It’s something to always remember.”

Matthew Wolff recorded LIV’s first ace last year at its event near Boston.

LIV Golf Adelaide: Talor Gooch, 4 Aces win Down Under

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Dustin Johnson’s 4 Aces win LIV Golf Adelaide, Talor Gooch claims first individual title

Gooch nearly blew a 10-shot lead but hung on for the wire-to-wire win in Australia.

Talor Gooch helped Dustin Johnson’s 4 Aces GC win the team title in LIV Golf’s first year last October in Miami.

Ahead of the 2023 season, Gooch told Johnson that he wanted to change teams and took his talents to Bubba Watson’s RangeGoats GC. Johnson didn’t want someone on his team who didn’t want to be there, so he let him go.

“Me and Talor, we’re fine and we’re friends,” said Johnson back in February ahead of LIV’s first event of the season in Mexico, “but I did tell him, though, he should enjoy being on stage in Miami because that was the last time he’s going to do that.

On Sunday, four events later, both shared the stage at LIV Golf Adelaide.

After consecutive rounds of 10-under 62, Gooch entered the final round at the Grange Golf Club in Australia with a whopping 10 shot lead. The 31-year-old struggled on Sunday with a 1-over 74 but held on for a three-shot win for his first individual title.

On the flip side, Johnson’s 4 Aces stormed back in the final round to swipe the team win from the RangeGoats with an 18-under effort in the final round to win by one. The 4 Aces earned their first victory of the season after winning five times last season.

The upstart circuit led by Greg Norman and backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund now heads to Sentosa Golf Club for LIV Golf Singapore, April 28–30, before it returns to the U.S. for both LIV Golf Tulsa, May 12–14 at Cedar Ridge Country Club in Oklahoma, and LIV Golf D.C., May 26–28 at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia.

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