Centurion Membership in Hertfordshire will host the world’s richest ever golf match in June, the place 48 tour professionals will probably be invited to play for a $20m purse, with an additional $5m on provide for a workforce prize
Greg Norman’s Saudi Arabia-backed golf operation has introduced a brand new sequence of massive cash tournaments that can start on the Centurion Membership in England with a $25m occasion this June.
The sequence will embrace eight 54-hole occasions throughout Europe, America and Asia. They may comprise a workforce component with the sequence value a complete of $255m from an total funding of $400m.
No gamers have been introduced for the LIV Golf Worldwide Collection, however it’s being thought to be the primary incarnation of the proposed breakaway Tremendous League.
“In yr one, there will probably be a max of 48 gamers on 12 four-man groups and a very world discipline with golfers invited from all excursions all over the world to beta check the brand new format,” mentioned a press release from the organisers. “Every occasion may have groups comprised of various gamers decided by a draft the week of the occasion.”
Norman, chief government of LIV Golf Investments, mentioned: “Our occasions are really additive to the world of golf. We’ve got accomplished our greatest to create a schedule that permits gamers to play elsewhere, whereas nonetheless collaborating in our occasions. I consider gamers will more and more make progress in attaining their proper to play the place they need. We’ll assist in any manner attainable and can present golfers with alternatives to realize their full potential.”
The opening occasion will probably be staged at Centurion Membership in Hertfordshire from September 11 June – the week earlier than the US Open and carries a prize fund that tops, by $5m, the file $20m purse eventually week’s Gamers Championship at Sawgrass.
Additional occasions will probably be held at Pumpkin Ridge in Oregon, USA (July 1-3); Trump Nationwide Golf Membership, New Jersey (July 29-31); The Worldwide, Boston (Sept 2-4); Wealthy Harvest Farms, Chicago (Sept 16-18); Stonehill Golf Membership, Bangkok (Oct 7-9), Royal Greens GC in Saudi Arabia (Oct 14-16) and a Staff Championship at a but to be determined venue (Oct 28-30).
The assertion added: “Whole prize purse for the eight occasions will attain an unprecedented $255m. The primary seven common season occasions will carry a complete purse of $25m comprised of $20m in particular person prizes (all gamers within the discipline earn a share) and $5m for the highest three groups. Following the primary seven occasions, a person champion will probably be topped providing a complete purse of $30m for the highest three people of the season. The season-ending eighth occasion will probably be a workforce championship that can present $50m in whole prize funds.”
The tournaments haven’t any lower and may have a shotgun begin with all rivals beginning their rounds concurrently.
Each the PGA Tour and DP World Tour have beforehand threatened lifetime bans on gamers who play in a breakaway league, however neither has issued a press release concerning the LIV Golf Worldwide Collection and it stays to be seen how they’ll react to their members participating on this sequence.
There are at the moment no particulars about which gamers have dedicated to the sequence, though it’s understood that invites are being despatched out to no less than 250 throughout the worldwide excursions.
