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

It pays to play well in the Saudi-backed league. Just ask Brooks Koepka.

It pays to play well in the LIV Golf League, just ask Brooks Koepka.

The 34-year-old won for the fourth time on the Saudi-backed circuit on Sunday after a 3-under 68 in the final round at Sentosa Golf Club to claim the league’s seventh event of the 2024 season, LIV Golf Singapore.

For his efforts, Koepka will take home the top prize of $4 million. Ripper GC captain Cameron Smith and teammate Marc Leishman, who finished T-2, two shots behind Koepka at 13 under, banked $1.875 million each.

With $20 million up for grabs, check out how much money each player and team earned at 2024 LIV Golf Singapore.

Individual prize money

Position Player Score Earnings
1  Brooks Koepka -15 $4,000,000
T2  Cameron Smith -13 $1,875,000
T2  Marc Leishman -13 $1,875,000
4  Talor Gooch -12 $1,000,000
T5  Tyrrell Hatton -11 $750,000
T5  Thomas Pieters -11 $750,000
T7  Dustin Johnson -10 $522,500
T7  Joaquín Niemann -10 $522,500
T7  Kevin Na -10 $522,500
T10  Jon Rahm -9 $371,250
T10  Eugenio Chacarra -9 $371,250
T10  Adrian Meronk -9 $371,250
T10  Abraham Ancer -9 $371,250
T14  Kalle Samooja -8 $287,000
T14  Patrick Reed -8 $287,000
T14  Sergio Garcia -8 $287,000
T14  Dean Burmester -8 $287,000
T14  Cameron Tringale -8 $287,000
T19  Carlos Ortiz -7 $240,000
T19  Martin Kaymer -7 $240,000
T19  Sebastián Muñoz -7 $240,000
T22  Phil Mickelson -6 $203,000
T22  Peter Uihlein -6 $203,000
T22  Richard Bland -6 $203,000
T22  Kieran Vincent -6 $203,000
T22  Louis Oosthuizen -6 $203,000
T27  David Puig -5 $180,000
T27  Bryson DeChambeau -5 $180,000
T27  Lucas Herbert -5 $180,000
T30  Anirban Lahiri -4 $167,500
T30  Matthew Wolff -4 $167,500
T32  Branden Grace -3 $155,000
T32  Paul Casey -3 $155,000
T32  Harold Varner III -3 $155,000
T35  Charl Schwartzel -2 $146,500
T35  Ian Poulter -2 $146,500
T37  Matt Jones -1 $140,333
T37  Graeme McDowell -1 $140,333
T37  Scott Vincent -1 $140,333
T40  Charles Howell III E $131,500
T40  Caleb Surratt E $131,500
T40  Brendan Steele E $131,500
T40  Jason Kokrak E $131,500
44  Henrik Stenson 1 $128,000
T45  Andy Ogletree 2 $125,000
T45  Bubba Watson 2 $125,000
T47  Mito Pereira 3 $121,500
T47  Sam Horsfield 3 $121,500
T49  Danny Lee 4 $60,000
T49  Hudson Swafford 4 $60,000
T49  Lee Westwood 4 $60,000
T52  Pat Perez 6 $50,000
T52  Anthony Kim 6 $50,000
54  Jinichiro Kozuma 8 $50,000

Team prize money

Position Team Score Earnings
1 Ripper GC -32 $3,000,000
2 Fireballs GC -29 $1,000,000
3 Cleeks GC -29 $1,000,000

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‘I can’t find the hole at all’: LIV Golf’s Brooks Koepka searches for answers ahead of PGA Championship title defense

“Just keep grinding away, keep doing the work, and hopefully something will turn around,” said Koepka.

Brooks Koepka is known for his swagger and confidence, but with two weeks to go until his PGA Championship title defense, the five-time major champion isn’t feeling very good about his chances at Valhalla Golf Club for the second men’s major of the year.

While speaking with the media ahead of 2024 LIV Golf Singapore at Sentosa Golf Club this week, Koepka said he felt like he wasted time from December until last month’s Masters, where he finished T-45 at 9 over thanks to four rounds over par of 73-73-76-75.

“Just keep grinding away, keep doing the work, and hopefully something will turn around,” said Koepka, who then criticized his poor putting as the main reason for his struggles.

“Ball doesn’t go in the hole, that’s usually one of them. I don’t know how else to simply put it,” he said of his woes with the flatstick. “I feel like I’m hitting good putts, they just keep burning lips. Eventually it starts to wear on you after a while. All you can do is hit a good putt and see where it goes from there. Hopefully they start falling soon.”

“I can’t find the hole at all, to be honest with you,” he added. “Something we’ve just been putting some work into, so trying to find some answers.”

Koepka switched to a mallet putter two weeks before the Masters and hasn’t touched the previous putter that he’s used for the last dozen years since.

So far this LIV Golf season, Koepka has two top-10 finishes (T-5 in the season opener in Mexico and T-9 last week in Australia) as well as a head-scratching T-45 out of 54 players in Miami.

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5 things to know from Hannah Green’s dramatic LPGA victory at the HSBC in Singapore

Green hit 28-of-56 fairways, the lowest in the field, but tied for third in total birdies with 18.

For newlywed Hannah Green, the celebrations continued just a five-hour plane ride from Perth, Australia, where she won with a flourish in her second start to the LPGA season. Green’s dramatic birdie putt on the 18th at the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore sealed a narrow victory over France’s Celine Boutier, who won four times last season.

For the 27-year-old Green, who got married in January and moved into a new home right before last week’s event in Thailand, it’s been a dreamlike start to 2024.

Green birdied the last three holes at Sentosa Golf Club’s Tanjong Course to close with a third consecutive 67 and finish at 13 under for the tournament, one stroke ahead of Boutier.

“Almost like it was meant to be today for me, holing those two putts today on the last two holes,” said Green as she held the trophy. “I’m so happy to have this in my hands.”

Now a four-time winner on the LPGA, including the 2019 KPMG Women’s PGA, Green joins mentor Karrie Webb as the only other Aussie to win the HSBC.

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Jin Young Ko calls victory over Nelly Korda in Singapore the most important of her career; Danielle Kang buys beer to thank HSBC grounds crew and volunteers

When it was over, she doubled over on the final green as the tears poured out.

Jin Young Ko grabbed her towel walking up to the 18th green to wipe her eyes. The emotion of the past year was written on her face. After an injury to her left wrist wrecked her 2022 season, Ko defended her title at the HSBC Women’s World Championship, calling it the most important victory of her career.

When it was over, she doubled over on the final green as the tears poured out.

“It’s going to be big momentum for me in my life,” said Ko, who closed with a 69 to beat Nelly Korda by two strokes and win for the first time in 12 months.

Ko has now won at least one title in each of the past six seasons. The 27-year-old has 14 career LPGA titles, including two majors. A $270,000 winner’s check moves her to 22nd on the LPGA career money list, passing Yani Tseng and Ariya Jutanugarn with $10,680,535.

Sentosa Golf Club received a month’s worth of rain in one week as LPGA players endured a number of rain delays, the last of which occurred Sunday when the final group was on the 16th hole.

“I actually didn’t honestly know if we were going to finish the last hole,” said Korda, who made birdie on 18 to jump into solo second. Danielle Kang, Allisen Corpuz and Ayaka Furue finished in a share of third.

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The showdown between Ko and Korda is what many fans expected to play out all last season before health issues set them both back.

“It’s always hard to play with Nelly, especially on Sunday” said Ko. “We’ve been playing together yesterday, and today was second time. We had a lot of times to play in 2021. She hits farther than last year, I think. So I don’t look at her ball. I didn’t look at her ball or her playing. It’s hard but love to compete with Nelly.”

Nelly Korda tees off on the 15th hole during the final round of the 2023 HSBC Women’s World Championship at Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore. (Photo: Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

This marked the 15th playing of the HSBC, known as “Asia’s major.” All but two players who have won in Singapore are major champions. Ko now joins Inbee Park, who is out on maternity leave, as the only two-time champions.

Ko pushed back her winter training in December to rest her wrist and went to Europe to see the Northern Lights in Finland and tour The Louvre in Paris.

“I think it brings good luck for me because it’s really hard to see the Northern Lights when you go to Finland or Iceland,” said Ko, “but I take just one day that I saw the Northern Lights, and so it was lucky.”

Ko then spent a month in Vietnam working with her former swing coach, Si Woo Lee, and said she took a great deal of confidence from their time together. She also took up meditating during the offseason and felt that it helped bring more balance to her life.

“I’m just trying to enjoy the course,” she said of the long and demanding week, “and I just want to hear birds singing, and I just wanted to feel wind and air.”

For a player who likely wondered if her body would ever let her return to the form that saw her dominate the LPGA, finding pleasure in the small things has been key.

For Corpuz, this marked the 24-year-old’s third career top-five finish as she moves a step closer to her No. 1 goal of making the Solheim Cup team.

“Really happy with how I played,” said Corpuz, who birdied the last hole, “especially being with Jin Young and Nelly. So awesome to just watch them play well and kind of feel like I’m almost keeping up with them.”

Kang: ‘Have a beer on us’

Kang left Singapore proud of her efforts, noting that she’s continuing to test balls and wedges and likes the progress that’s been made.

But before Kang headed out, she handed out beers to those who made the week possible.

“Normally what we do is in America, my caddie and I, we go buy cases of beers, and I have him help me out and load them up and give them to the grounds crew and things,” she said. “This week, I thought the volunteers did an incredible job, so we add the volunteers this time, too.

“In Singapore, it’s expensive but it’s OK. They worked really hard to keep the golf course in the most championship condition possible and without them we would not have been able to play or finish 72 holes, so I just wanted to say thanks and have a beer on us.”

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In Gee Chun battles through neck injury for one-shot lead at LPGA’s HSBC in Singapore

In Gee Chun grabs one-shot LPGA lead over Jin Young Ko and Jeongeun Lee6 in Singapore.

After more than three years without a victory, In Gee Chun wasn’t about to let a pain in her neck slow down her climb up the leaderboard Saturday at the LPGA’s HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore.

The three-time winner on the tour focused on her putting after suffering a spasm in her neck earlier in the week, then carded six birdies for a 66 to reach 12-under 204 at Sentosa Golf Club. That was good for a one-shot lead over Jeongeun Lee6 and World No. 1 Jin Young Ko heading into Sunday’s final round.

After hurting her neck Thursday, she considered withdrawing but instead relied on stretching, help from on-site trainers and Advil. She said she has played within herself and let her putter do the talking.

“I tried to make good focus on the putting green because I have spasm in my neck, so I didn’t try to hit hard,” Chun told the LPGA after taking the third-round lead. “I think it went really well on the putting green. …. That’s how I made a good score today.”

Chun’s most recent victory was at the 2018 LPGA KEB Hana Bank Championship. She also won the 2015 U.S. Women’s Open and the 2016 Amundi Evian Championship. She likely will need to make plenty more putts Sunday to hold off the player riding the hottest streak in the women’s game.

Jin Young Ko plays a shot from the ninth tee during her third round at the HSBC Women’s World Championship on March 5, 2022, at Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore. (AP/Paul Miller)

Ko shot a third-round 69, her 14th consecutive round in the 60s. That matched an LPGA record she already shared with Annika Sorenstam and So Yeon Ryu. She is in pursuit of her 13th LPGA victory and her sixth in her past 10 starts.

Lee6 had the lowest round of the day, carding seven birdies – six of them in a front-nine 31 – and an eagle to charge up the board with a 7-under 65 to tie Ko in second at 11 under par. Lee6 has one win on the tour, the 2019 U.S. Women’s Open.

American Danielle Kang fired a third-round 68 to climb into a three-way tie for fourth place at 9 under with Atthaya Thitikul (70) and Amy Yang (71) after three rounds. Brooke Henderson (71) was another shot back at 8 under.

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World No. 1 Jin Young Ko co-leads HSBC in Singapore, records 13th consecutive round in the 60s

With 13 consecutive rounds in the 60s, Jin Young Ko just one off the mark for most in a row – a record she already shares.

Once again, Jin Young Ko finds herself in the midst of an impressive and potentially record-breaking streak. The World No. 1 posted a breezy 5-under 67 at the HSBC Women’s World Championship on Friday, giving her 13 consecutive rounds in the 60s dating back to the 2021 BMW Ladies Championship in South Korea in October.

Last season Ko took a share of the record for most consecutive rounds in the 60s at 14 with Annika Sorenstam and So Yeon Ryu.

Ko now co-leads the HSBC at the midway point with Amy Yang at 8 under.

“It was a great round today,” said Ko. “And I tried to make more birdies and make more opportunity for birdie chance today.”

South Korea’s Yang looks to add a fifth career LPGA title. All four of her previous wins have come on the Asian swing.

Brooke Henderson (left) smiles with Jin Young Ko on the 18th green after their second round of the HSBC Women’s World Championship at Sentosa Golf Club on March 4, 2022 in Singapore. (Yong Teck Lim/Getty Images)

A trio of players are tied for third at 7 under, including Brooke Henderson, Megan Khang and rookie Atthaya Thitikul, who won the 2018 Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific on the New Tanjong Course.

“I think my game is fine,” said Thitikul. “I mean, not like my A game, anyway, but just trying to give myself a lot of chances to make it and then just like commit to it and then have a good roll-in for the putt, it will be good.”

Khang was scrambling to get situated in Singapore after arriving a day late due to flight issues. That gave her even less time to work with new caddie Missy Pedersen, whose regular boss, Brittany Lincicome, was unable to travel.

“(Missy and I) really haven’t had a full day until yesterday together. And so we’ve just kind of been chatting along,” said Khang. “I obviously know her usual player, Brittany Lincicome, and so we’ve just been kind of sharing some funny stories that we’ve had and really trying to keep our minds off of things.”

This marks Ko’s first start of the 2022 season. She won her last start on the LPGA, the CME Group Tour Championship in November, while battling a wrist injury that kept her from properly warming up before each round. Ko’s back to being able to practice as she’d like, heading to the range Friday after her bogey-free effort, noting that she wasn’t satisfied.

“Like my swing feels is a little different as front nine to back nine,” said Ko. “So I feel more comfortable in the back nine, so I just want to find – I just want to find what happened in the front nine, is it mentally or is it like warmup or like needing more stretch before the tee off? So, yeah, I will go to the range right now.”

World Amateur Team Championships relocated from Hong Kong in wake of political protests

The International Golf Federation has announced it will move the 2020 World Amateur Team Championships to Singapore.

World events occasionally disrupt sporting events, and the 2020 World Amateur Team Championship is just the latest example of that. The International Golf Federation-sponsored event, which takes place every two years, was slated to be played Oct. 12-24 in Hong Kong. Earlier this month, the IGF announced that the event will be relocated to Singapore “to alleviate any concerns about the potential impact of the protests that have taken place in Hong Kong in recent months.”

The Singapore Golf Association (SGA) will host both championships at Tanah Merah Country Club and Sentosa Golf Club on the same dates as planned, with the Espirito Santo Trophy for women scheduled from October 14-17 and the Eisenhower Trophy for men from October 21-24.

In a statement, IGF executive director Antony Scanlon said the IGF Board felt that relocating the championships was in the event’s best interests, even as the Hong Kong Golf Association was willing to honor its hosting duties.

“We appreciate the SGA’s willingness to host the Championships and its efforts in securing government and local support to enable this to happen on the same dates as scheduled,” Scanlon said in the release. “At the same time, we want to acknowledge and thank the HKGA for all the work it did and its understanding for the decision that we have made. We look forward to the opportunity to hold the Team Championships in Hong Kong at a future date and will be inviting the HKGA to submit a proposal for staging the 2024 edition.”

Sentosa Golf Club hosts the HSBC Women’s World Championship, one of three LPGA events that were canceled this winter due to concerns over the coronavirus outbreak in the region.

It remains possible, of course, that the coronavirus could affect this championship, as well.

The USGA has announced captains for the American teams. Diana Murphy, a past USGA president, and Pam Murray, a former chair of the USGA Women’s Committee, will captain both the men’s and women’s teams, respectively.

The U.S. women will be looking to defend the title won in 2018 in Ireland. Denmark won the men’s team title that year.

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