Today, LIV Golf revealed the matchups for Friday’s opening (quarterfinal) round of the 2023 LIV Golf Team Championship, October 20-22 at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami.

Team matchups were announced at a captains’ selection show press conference to kick off this week’s three-day tournament taking place at the iconic Blue Monster course, site of LIV Golf’s 14th and final event of the year.

Three matches will take place within each team matchup: two of the team’s four players will compete head-to-head in singles matches while the other two players will compete in an alternate-shot (foursomes) match. All 32 players amongst the eight participating teams will compete simultaneously in a shotgun start and matches will be played until a winner is determined. Each match winner receives one point, and the first team to earn two points will advance to Saturday’s semifinals.

The first round (quarterfinal) of LIV Golf’s exciting season-ending event will showcase some of the biggest names in golf. The day’s headline matchup will feature the two winningest major champions of the last 20 years when six-time major winner Phil Mickelson, captain of HyFlyers GC, takes on five-time major champion and 2023 PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka, captain of Smash GC.

The day’s featured singles matches also includes Fireballs GC captain and 2017 Masters champion Sergio Garcia going up against 2016 Open champion and Majesticks GC co-captain Henrik Stenson, while Ripper GC captain and 2022 Open champion Cameron Smith takes on two-time major winner and former world No. 1 Martin Kaymer, captain of Cleeks GC. Friday’s fourth singles match will feature 2010 Open champion Louis Oosthuizen, captain of Stinger GC, taking on Kevin Na, captain of Iron Heads GC.

As the highest-ranked team playing on Friday, Oosthuizen’s fifth-seeded Stinger GC, was given the first selection for its opponent. Branden Grace, who finished ninth overall in the LIV Golf Individual Standings, will face Scott Vincent, who finished fourth in LIV Golf Jeddah to secure his spot in the league for 2024. In the groups’ alternate-shot matchup, the Stingers’ Dean Burmester and Charl Schwartzel will face Sihwan Kim and Danny Lee, who secured an individual win earlier this season in Tucson.

The sixth-seeded Fireballs GC, coming off a team victory in Jeddah, elected to take on the 11th seed Majesticks GC, the most experienced squad in the field with more than 2,000 starts amongst them. A pair of young, rising stars will face off in Eugenio Chacarra and Sam Horsfield, while veteran Ryder Cup legends Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood will take on the Mexican duo Abraham Ancer and Carlos Ortiz in the foursomes match.

Seventh-seed Ripper GC will pair up Matt Jones and Jed Morgan versus former U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell and Austrian Bernd Wiesberger. Marc Leishman was selected for Ripper’s second singles match, in which he’ll play England’s Richard Bland, who finished 20th in this season’s rankings to secure his spot with LIV Golf for 2024.

The Smash-HyFlyers showdown is the only matchup involving teams consisting entirely of American players. Big-hitting Matthew Wolff will team up with Chase Koepka in the foursomes match against James Piot and Brendan Steele. For the second singles match, Jason Kokrak will face Cameron Tringale.

The LIV Golf League awarded points to teams based on their finish at each tournament, with values ranging from 32 points (first place) to 0 (9th-12th). Following the 13th and final regular season event, team standings determined seeds 1-12 for the Team Championship.

Top-seeded 4Aces GC (192 points – Captain Dustin Johnson), second seed Crushers GC (186 points – Captain Bryson DeChambeau), third seed Torque GC (183 points – Captain Joaquin Niemann) and fourth seed RangeGoats GC (179 points – Captain Bubba Watson) earned a bye into Saturday’s semifinals.

Following Friday’s results, team captains for the top four seeds and captains for the four quarterfinal match winners will convene, with the higher-seeded teams selecting their opponents for Saturday’s semifinal round. On Sunday, all 48 players amongst the 12 teams will compete in one round of stroke play, with all four players’ scores counting towards their team’s score. The four teams advancing to the finals will compete for places 1-4, with the teams eliminated in the semifinals competing for places 5-8. Teams eliminated in the quarterfinals will compete for places 9 through 12, with larger prizes awarded to teams based on their finishing position.

Daily Formats: LIV Golf Team Championship

Quarterfinals: Friday, October 20

• Teams seeded 1-4 will receive a bye
• Teams seeded 5-12 will compete in head-to-head match-play competitions
• Highest-ranked teams select their opponents
• All 32 players amongst those eight teams will compete simultaneously in a shotgun start
• For each head-to-head team match-up, three matches will take place: two singles matches and one alternate-shot (foursomes) match
• Matches will be played until a winner is determined; there will be no ties. Each match winner receives one point
• Teams earning two points will advance to Saturday’s Semifinals

Semifinals: Saturday, October 21

• Teams seeded 1-4 will join the winning four teams from Friday for another day of head-to-head team match play
• Highest-ranked teams select their opponents
• All 32 players amongst those eight teams will compete simultaneously in a shotgun start
• Teams compete in the same format as Friday: two singles matches and one alternate-shot (foursomes) match, with each match winner receiving one point
• Matches will be played until a winner is determined; there will be no ties
• The four teams earning two points will advance to Sunday’s Finals

Finals: Sunday, October 22

• All 48 players amongst the 12 teams will compete in a shotgun start with one round of stroke play
• All four individual scores count towards the team’s score
• The four teams advancing to the finals compete for 1st through 4th place
• The four teams eliminated in the semifinals compete for 5th through 8th place
• The four teams eliminated in the quarterfinals compete for 9th through 12th place
• Larger prizes are awarded to teams based on their finishing position
• The lowest team score on Sunday amongst the four teams that advanced to the finals is crowned the 2023 LIV Golf Team Champion

How to Watch: LIV Golf Team Championship

The LIV Golf Team Championship will air from 1:00 – 6:00 p.m. ET on Saturday and Sunday on The CW, The CW App and LIV Golf Plus, with Friday’s round carried on The CW App and LIV Golf Plus. In addition, LIV Golf tournaments are carried on YouTube and on more than a dozen international broadcast partners, delivering league broadcasts in over 180 territories to more than 380 million homes worldwide. For more information on how to watch the 2023 LIV Golf League, visit LIVGolf.com/where-to-watch.

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