LIV Golf schedule turns on Donald Trump, stands up to PGA Tour

LIV Golf hasn’t formally introduced its full 2024 schedule but, but it surely appears the 14-event season will function some main adjustments.

Whereas it’ll be the Saudi-backed league’s third season, a number of the venues will probably be model new, and the timing of some occasions are suspiciously handy, per Bob Harig of Sports activities Illustrated.

There appear to be solely three confirmed places for subsequent 12 months — the opener at Mayakoba in Mexico, the Greenbrier in West Virginia, and Valderrama in Spain. The opposite 11 venues haven’t been made it official.

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Nonetheless, of the 14 occasions, eight of them will probably be exterior america in Mexico, Jeddah, Hong Kong, Adelaide, Valderrama, England, Singapore and South Korea.

The league will even see occasions in Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Oklahoma Metropolis.

Curiously, their schedule will compete alongside a number of the PGA Tour’s new Signature occasions.

LIV Golf competing with PGA Tour on key dates

Proper now, the opening weekend for LIV Golf will probably be Feb. 2-4 in Mexico. That match in Mayakoba will coincide with the PGA Tour’s Pebble Seashore match.

The next week, LIV Golf heads to Las Vegas concurrently the WM Phoenix Open. Though not a Signature Occasion, the Phoenix Open is clearly a fan favourite.

LIV Golf’s Los Angeles match would be the week earlier than the U.S. Open, which occurs to be the identical week as The Memorial.

Their Oklahoma Metropolis occasion will probably be concurrently the Vacationers Championship, the week after the U.S. Open at Pinehurst.

The Pebble Seashore match, The Memorial and The Vacationers are all Signature occasions.

The Greenbrier occasion for LIV Golf will even probably overlap the FedEx Cup playoff occasion in Memphis.

It seems that the rival league to the PGA Tour is making an attempt to compete for consideration at key instances.

It additionally appears as if LIV is not going to go to any of former President Donald Trump’s programs. Nothing is official but, however the preliminary schedule doesn’t have any of his properties listed.

President Trump’s programs hosted two tournaments final 12 months, two this 12 months and LIV Golf is ready to play at Trump Nationwide Doral exterior of Miami for its Workforce Championship in October. After that, although, it’s unclear in the event that they’ll return to any of his programs.

The short-term schedule has “South Florida” listed because the venue for 2024’s Workforce Championship.

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