After a two-stop international swing, LIV Golf returns to U.S. soil for the inaugural LIV Golf Tulsa tournament, contested at the Cedar Ridge Country Club.
Located on the south-eastern outskirts of Tulsa, LIV Golf’s third U.S. stop of 2023 will be headlined by the hottest golfer in the world: Oklahoma native Talor Gooch.
Teeing it up alongside the former OSU Cowboy will be a bevy of major-winning superstars including Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Bubba Watson, Phil Mickelson, Bryson Dechambeau, Patrick Reed, and Cameron Smith, among others.
Below are some details to get you primed for an exciting week of golf in the Sooner State.
2023 LIV Golf Tulsa
Pro Golf Weekly previews LIV Golf’s stop in Oklahoma in this week’s 2023 LIV Golf Tulsa Primer.
The Skinny
Tournament: LIV Golf Tulsa
Dates: May 12-14, 2023
Where: Broken Arrow, OK
Course: Cedar Ridge CC
Schedule Week: 6 of 14
Distance: Par 70 / 7,213
Format: 54-holes: 12 Teams, 48 Players
Purse: $25,000,000
Winning Share: $4,000,000
Winning Team Share: $3,000,000
TV Broadcast: The CW Network
Time Zone: Central Standard Time (CST)
Time Difference: 1 Hour behind EST (USA)
How to Follow: LIV Golf Tulsa
The CW Network airs the LIV Golf League in one-hundred-percent of the U.S. markets.
TELEVISION: Sat-Sun: 1-6 p.m. (The CW), LIV Golf Plus
STREAMING: Fri-Sun: 1-6 p.m. (The CW App, LIVGolfPlus.com)
LINKS: Web | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Youtube
The LIV Golf Format
The LIV Golf League 2023 features 12 teams comprised of four players competing over a 14-event schedule, with players and teams competing simultaneously for both points and prize money.
Tournaments consist of 54-hole stroke play, no cuts and shotgun starts, ensuring a faster and more exciting pace of play.
Captains: Each team has a captain while members of the four-player teams, including the captain, participate in the three-day tournament.
Individual Winner: The player with the lowest 54-hole stroke play total is the winner. At the season’s end, the player with the most ranking points will be named the season’s Individual Champion.
Team Competition: After each round, the best three scores count to produce a team score. The lowest overall team score after 54 holes is the team winner. The final event of the season is the team championship.
LIV Golf Tulsa Field Notes
- Former Oklahoma State University star Talor Gooch (RangeGoats GC) has won the last two tournaments, marking the first time any player has posted back-to-back LIV Golf wins.
- Gooch leads the season-long Individual Champion points standings and is followed closely by two other Oklahoma State alums, No. 2 ranked Peter Uihlein (4Aces GC) and No. 3 ranked Charles Howell III (Crushers GC).
- Two more Oklahoma State players, Matthew Wolff (Smash GC) and Eugenio Chacarra (Fireballs GC), along with former Oklahoma University star Abraham Ancer (Fireballs GC), are in the 48-player field.
- Gooch’s RangeGoats GC, captained by two-time Masters winner Bubba Watson, won its first-ever team title in Singapore.
- LIV Golf Tulsa will be the last LIV Golf tournament prior to the PGA Championship, the next major on the 2023 golf calendar. Gooch and Anirban Lahiri (Crushers GC) received recent invites, raising the total to 12 LIV Golf League members scheduled to compete, including 2021 winner Phil Mickelson (HyFlyers GC captain).
Field: The Players
(Alphabetic order by last name)
1. Ancer, Abraham
2. Bland, Richard
3. Burmester, Dean
4. Casey, Paul
5. Chacarra, Eugenio
6. DeChambeau, Bryson
7. Garcia, Sergio
8. Gooch, Talor
9. Grace, Branden
10. Horsfield, Sam
11. Howell III, Charles
12. Johnson, Dustin
13. Jones, Matt
14. Kaymer, Martin
15. Kim, Sihwan
16. Koepka, Brooks
17. Koepka, Chase
18. Kokrak, Jason
19. Lahiri, Anirban
20. Lee, Danny
21. Leishman, Marc
22. McDowell, Graeme
23. Mickelson, Phil
24. Morgan, Jediah
25. Munoz, Sebastian
26. Na, Kevin
27. Niemann, Joaquin
28. Oosthuizen, Louis
29. Ortiz, Carlos
30. Pereira, Mito
31. Perez, Pat
32. Pieters, Thomas
33. Piot, James
34. Poulter, Ian
35. Puig, David
36. Reed, Patrick
37. Schwartzel, Charl
38. Smith, Cameron
39. Steele, Brendan
40. Stenson, Henrik
41. Tringale, Cameron
42. Uihlein, Peter
43. Varner III, Harold
44. Vincent, Scott
45. Watson, Bubba
46. Westwood, Lee
47. Wiesberger, Bernd
48. Wolff, Matthew
Top-5 Betting Favorites
1. Brooks Koepka +1000
1. Talor Gooch +1000
3. Cameron Smith +1100
4. Dustin Johnson +1200
5. Patrick Reed +1400
Full Field & Odds
LIV Golf Tulsa Teams
Below are the 12 teams (with captains italicized) who will compete in Singapore.
- 4 ACES GC – Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Peter Uihlein, Pat Perez
- RIPPER GC – Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Matt Jones, Jediah Morgan
- CLEEKS GC – Martin Kaymer, Graeme McDowell, Bernd Wiesberger, Richard Bland
- SMASH GC – Brooks Koepka, Jason Kokrak, Matthew Wolff, Chase Koepka
- CRUSHERS GC – Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey, Charles Howell III, Anirban Lahiri
- MAJESTICKS GC – Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson, Sam Horsfield
- STINGER GC – Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Branden Grace, Dean Burmester
- FIREBALLS GC – Sergio Garcia, Abraham Ancer, Carlos Ortiz, Eugenio Chacarra
- RANGEGOATS GC – Bubba Watson, Talor Gooch, Harold Varner III, Thomas Pieters
- TORQUE GC – Joaquin Niemann, Mito Pereira, Sebastian Munoz, David Puig
- HY FLYERS GC – Phil Mickelson, James Piot, Brendan Steele, Cameron Tringale
- IRON HEADS GC – Kevin Na, Scott Vincent, Danny Lee, Sihwan Kim
Teams: Top-5 Betting Favorites
1. 4 Aces (DJ) 3-1
2. Crushers (DeChambeau) 5-1
3. Smash (Koepka) 6-1
3. Torque (Niemann) 6-1
3. Fireballs (Sergio) 6-1
3. RangeGoats (Bubba) 6-1
LIV Golf Tulsa Course
- Famed golf course architect Joe Finger was commissioned by local businessmen in the late 1960s to design Cedar Ridge.
- Tripp Davis oversaw the 2016 course renovation that involved a program of tree removal and the rebuilding of bunkers that reduced the number of sand hazards by almost a third.
- The course hosted the 1983 U.S. Women’s Open won by legendary Australian golfer Jan Stephenson.
- Cedar Ridge also has hosted state championships and national qualifying tournaments.
- Cedar Ridge is ranked as the fifth best course in Oklahoma by Golf Digest’s latest state rankings.
- The nines will be reversed for LIV Golf Tulsa, with the course playing at par 70 instead of par 71 for members.
- The 369-yard 12th hole (the No. 3 hole for members) is the shortest par 4 on the course but is a severe dogleg left that will likely prevent players from attempting to drive the green.
Fast Facts
Par: 35-35-70
Yards: 7,213
Par 3s: 4 (4, 6, 11, 15)
Par 5s: 2 (10, 14)
LIV Golf Payouts: Points & Money
The tournament winner will receive a $4,000,000 payday along with 40 first-place points.
Note: a one-hole playoff will be conducted if there is a tie for first place after 54 holes. Hole 18 will be repeated until a winner is determined.
Pos-(Points)-Money
1 (40) $4,000,000
2 (30) $2,125,000
3 (24) $1,500,000
4 (18) $1,050,000
5 (16) $975,000
6 (14) $800,000
7 (13) $675,000
8 (12) $625,000
9 (11) $580,000
10 (10) $560,000
11 (8) $540,000
12 (7) $450,000
13 (6) $360,000
14 (5) $270,000
15 (4) $250,000
16 (3) $240,000
17 (3) $232,000
18 (2) $226,000
19 (2) $220,000
20 (2) $200,000
21 (1) $180,000
22 (1) $172,000
23 (1) $170,000
24 (1) $168,000
25 (-) $166,000
26 (-) $164,000
27 (-) $162,000
28 (-) $160,000
29 (-) $158,000
30 (-) $156,000
31 (-) $154,000
32 (-) $152,000
33 (-) $150,000
34 (-) $148,000
35 (-) $146,000
36 (-) $144,000
37 (-) $142,000
38 (-) $140,000
39 (-) $138,000
40 (-) $136,000
41 (-) $134,000
42 (-) $132,000
43 (-) $130,000
44 (-) $128,000
45 (-) $126,000
46 (-) $124,000
47 (-) $122,000
48 (-) $120,000
Next Stop: LIV Golf DC
Following the PGA Championship, the season’s second major, the world’s leading golfers will be looking to make capital gains when the LIV Golf League arrives at the Trump National Golf Club Washington DC.
The course is located on the northwestern outskirts of the capital of the United States, and has quickly established itself as one of the most challenging and prestigious in this part of the world.
It was ranked as one of the top three new golf courses in 2016, and the following year hosted the Senior PGA Championship, won by German legend Bernhard Langer.
Sources: LIV Golf Media, Getty Images
