The LIV Golf League will be in south Florida this week for the LIV Golf Miami at famed Trump National Doral.
The headliners in Miami will be Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson Dechambeau, Joaquin Niemann, Cameron Smith, and the reigning Masters champion Jon Rahm.
Below are some details to get you primed for an exciting week of golf in the Sunshine State.
2024 LIV Golf Miami
Pro Golf Weekly previews LIV Golf’s stop in Miami in this week’s 2024 LIV Golf Miami Primer.
The Skinny
Tournament:Â LIV Golf Miami
Dates:Â Apr. 5-8, 2024
Where: Miami, FL
Course:Â Trump National Doral
Distance: Par 72, 7701 yards
Format: 54-holes: Team & Individual
Purse: $25,000,000
Winning Share: $4,000,000
Winning Team Share: $3,000,000
TV Broadcast: The CW Network
How to Follow: LIV Golf Miami
TELEVISION: Sat-Sun: 1-6 p.m. (The CW)
STREAMING: Fri-Sun: 1-6 p.m. (The CW App, Youtube, LIVGolf.com)
LINKS: Web | X | Facebook | Instagram | Youtube
The Format
The LIV Golf League 2024 features 13 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: Over the first two rounds, the best three stroke play scores will count for each team. For the third and final round, all four scores will count. The lowest overall team score after 54 holes is the team winner. The final event of the season is the team championship.
LIV Golf Miami Field
The LIV field in Miami will include some of golf’s most familiar names, such as Jon Rahm, the reigning Masters champion, Brooks Koepka, the reigning PGA champion, Tyrrell Hatton, Joaquin Niemann, Phil Mickelson, Louis Oosthuizen, Henrik Stenson, Bubba Watson, Sergio Garcia, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed, and Cameron Smith.
Other marquee names, co-headlining in Miami, include international stars such as Thomas Pieters, Sebastian Munoz, Carlos Ortiz, Mito Peirera, Paul Casey, Lee Westwood, Dean Burmester, Abraham Ancer, Branden Grace, Marc Leishman, Martin Kaymer, Ian Poulter, Charl Schwartzel, Graeme McDowell, Adrian Meronk and Anirban Lahiri; along with Americans Matthew Wolff, Charles Howell III, Jason Kokrak, Talor Gooch, Pat Perez, Brendan Steele, Kevin Na, and Harold Varner III, among others.
Top-10 Betting Favorites
1. Jon Rahm +600
2. Joaquin Niemann +700
3. Bryson DeChambeau +1000
4. Dustin Johnson +1400
5. Brooks Koepka +1600
6. Cameron Smith +1800
6. Tyrrell Hatton +1800
6. Talor Gooch +1800
9. Adrian Meronk +2500
9. Louis Oosthuizen +2500
Full Field & Odds
LIV Golf Miami Teams
Below are the 13 teams (with captains italicized) who will compete at Mayakoba.
- 4 ACES GC – Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Harold Varner, Pat Perez
- LEGION XIII GC – Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton, Kieran Vincent, Caleb Surratt
- RIPPER GC – Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Matt Jones, Jediah Morgan
- CLEEKS GC – Martin Kaymer, Adrian Meronk, Richard Bland, Kalle Samooja
- SMASH GC – Brooks Koepka, Jason Kokrak, Talor Gooch, Graeme McDowell
- 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, David Puig, Eugenio Chacarra
- RANGEGOATS GC – Bubba Watson, Peter Uihlein, Matthew Wolff, Thomas Pieters
- TORQUE GC – Joaquin Niemann, Mito Pereira, Sebastian Munoz, Carlos Ortiz
- HY FLYERS GC – Phil Mickelson, Andy Ogletree, Brendan Steele, Cameron Tringale
- IRON HEADS GC – Kevin Na, Scott Vincent, Danny Lee, Jinichiro Kozuma
Teams: Top-5 Betting Favorites
1. Crushers (DeChambeau) +300
2. Legions XIII (Rahm) +500
3. Torque (Niemann) +550
4. 4 Aces (DJ) +700
5. Fireballs (Sergio) +900
LIV Golf Miami Course
Designed by Dick Wilson in the early 1960s, the historic Blue Monster opened for play in 1962 and has been earning its name for over sixty years, taming the greats of the game with its endless perils.
The course was lengthened and made more dramatic during a complete redesign by famed golf architect Gil Hanse in 2014.
The redesigned features include a series of strategically placed deep bunkers, long flowing fairways, interesting undulating greens, deep Bermuda rough and a challenging assortment of water hazards. The iconic 18th hole remains one of the most difficult in all of golf.
Doral served as the host course for the PGA Tour’s Doral/Miami stop for 55 seasons, between 1962 and 2016. LIV Golf members Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and Patrick Reed are among those who have claimed victory on the Blue Monster, while Bubba Watson is a three-time runner-up at the venue.
Greg Norman, LIV Golf’s commissioner and CEO, won three times at Doral in a seven-year stretch (1990, 1993, 1996).
The 2023 Team Championship was held here and produced a moment of magic that will live long in the memory. Bryson DeChambeau hit a Hail Mary Birdie on the 16th which came from behind the hospitality stand, a pivotal moment as his Crushers GC clinched one of their famous comebacks.
Fast Facts
Trump National Doral
Owner: The Trump Organization
Opened: 1962
Par: 36-36-72
Yards: 7700
Par 3s: 4 (4, 9, 13, 15)
Par 5s: 4 (1, 4, 10, 12)
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 Adelaide
LIV Golf Adelaide (Apr. 26-28) – Two weeks after the Masters, LIV Golf will set up shop Down Under at the Grange Club in Adelaide (AUS). With its wild “watering hole,” the event in Australia proved to be the circuit’s most raucous in 2023.
