LIV Golf

LIV Golf League's second season got underway Friday with the first round at Mayakoba in Mexico. Smash GC's Jason Kokrak fired an opening-round bogey-free ...

MAYAKOBA, Mexico — A three-day training camp Ian Poulter ran for his LIV Golf teammates in Orlando's Lake Nona area, and Dustin Johnson hosting his squad at ...

That's what most teams will [probably] do and it's good for the team spirits.” The practice rounds are really competitive with the four of us.” Most teams play practice rounds as a four-ball and hit balls on the range side-by-side. that will ultimately make clear what is the value, what is the worth. Along with the team’s physiotherapist and mind coach, they flew together to Mexico. Rounds of golf, range sessions, getting fitted for their new team uniforms and collecting tour staff bags were among the activities. What will make their travel arrangements different from last season is that it is now up teams to cover their own travel expenses. For the team Majesticks GC, which is co-captained by the trio of Poulter, Lee Westwood and Henrik Stenson, with three-time DP World Tour winner Sam Horsfield the fourth member, the quartet held a bonding and training camp at Lake Nona Golf and Country Club last weekend. Less organized was the preparation of two-time major winner Johnson’s 4 Aces team. It wasn't like a boot camp in that sense; it was more like getting together and bonding.” Similarly, reigning Open Championship winner Cameron Smith, who captains the all-Australian side Ripper GC, had teammates meet at his house in Florida’s Ponte Vedra area on the eve of the new season. The England-based Westwood stayed at his countryman Poulter’s house, while Stenson and Horsfield already live in the Lake Nona area.

LIV Golf begins its second season on Friday. The league boasts reimagined teams and a new broadcast partner, but still faces some familiar issues.

Other LIV Golf players, including [Harold Varner III](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/6991/harold-varner-iii), [Jason Kokrak](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/3317/jason-kokrak) and [Kevin Na](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/318/kevin-na), are eligible by finishing in the top 50 in the world last year. [Henrik Stenson](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/576/henrik-stenson) and [Louis Oosthuizen](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/1293/louis-oosthuizen) are eligible to play in The Open until they're 60, and [Martin Kaymer](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/3670/martin-kaymer) has exemptions into the PGA Championship and U.S. "Our decisions are always based on what's in the best interest of the PGA of America and conducting the best championship possible," Waugh said in a news release on Wednesday. If you're a major championship and you're using it as a qualifying factor and you're taking a system that is not getting all the best players in the field, it hurts the tournament more. In the past, PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh had indicated that players who had been suspended and weren't in good standing with the PGA Tour wouldn't be allowed to play. [Dustin Johnson](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/3448/dustin-johnson), [Bryson DeChambeau](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/10046/bryson-dechambeau), [Patrick Reed](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/5579/patrick-reed) and others pledged their support to the PGA Tour. The OWGR notified LIV Golf that it will have to address a few issues before it can be included in the rankings, which the four major championships and other tournaments use to determine exemptions and qualifying. Sources told ESPN that it is a revenue-sharing arrangement and that LIV Golf won't receive rights fees from the CW network and would continue to pay production costs, as it did during its inaugural season in 2022. McIlroy and Woods have been two of the PGA Tour's most vocal supporters and have helped reshape it in response to the LIV Golf threat. 35 in the Official World Golf Ranking, was the highest-profile player signed by LIV Golf during the offseason. The investors won that fight; the LIV Golf team championship will be played in Jeddah on Nov. As Johnson and his 4Aces teammates celebrated with a champagne shower on the 18th hole of Trump Doral in Miami, after winning LIV Golf's $50 million team championship in October, LIV Golf seemed to have momentum.

Jason Kokrak and Paul Casey share the lead after shooting matching 65s in Friday's first round at El Cameleón Course on Mexico's Riviera Maya.

“I'm still here, simple as that.” Norman spoke to Golf.com ahead of LIV Golf's season opener Friday in Mexico and responded to McIlroy directly after the ...

The world's most controversial golf league is back. After shaking up the sport with its inaugural 2022 season, LIV Golf returns this weekend as the 2023 ...

12:56 p.m. — Final preparations are underway ahead of the 1:15 p.m. Play will begin at 1:15 p.m. — A birdie putt for Ancer lips out on the second hole and he remains at -1. — Ancer narrowly misses a par putt on the third hole to fall back to even par, then Smith does the same to fall to +1. He chips from inside a sandy hazard area to within a couple feet of the hole and rolls in the birdie putt. — Dustin Johnson rolls in another birdie to move to -3, but Casey makes a birdie putt of his own to take the solo lead at -4. — Birdies for Mickelson and DeChambeau move them back within a shot of the lead at -3. — Reed made a double bogey followed by a bogey, and he's now dropped all the way back to even par and off the top of the leaderboard. Casey had to scramble for his par on the 18th hole, but he got it to stay at the top of the leaderboard. — Mickelson hits an uncharacteristically poor pitch shot on the 16th hole, and he'll face a lengthy par putt to stay at -3. — Casey sinks his final putt of the day and will head into the second round tied with Kokrak for the lead at 6 under.

The CW will televise LIV Golf events this year, but having tournaments broadcast in some large markets has come with challenges.

Meanwhile, when The CW airs LIV events in 2023, only the events played in North America will be shown live on the linear broadcast in the 1-6 p.m. The five LIV events being played overseas (Australia, Singapore, Spain, England and Saudi Arabia) will be shown on tape delay in that same time window, with live broadcasts only available on The CW or LIV apps. (The first rounds of the 54-hole events will only be available on The CW and LIV Golf apps.) Some of the affected larger city markets include Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, San Diego, Tampa and Hartford-New Haven, Conn. In some of the cities, the alternative station is owned by Nexstar, which bought 75 percent of The CW last year from Paramount and Warner Bros. television deal with The CW Network](https://www.golfdigest.com/story/liv-golf-tv-deal-2023). Other local stations in those markets will air the tournaments instead, allowing the tout of being in 100 percent of markets to technically be accurate.

The upstart circuit led by Greg Norman and financially supported by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund didn't crash in its first year as the LIV Golf ...

federal court](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2023/02/24/eamon-lynch-saudi-arabia-greg-norman-liv-golf-lawsuit/) over the last couple weeks. Not only did [a judge rule against](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2023/02/17/liv-golf-news-pga-tour-antitrust-lawsuit-california-court/) the “sovereign immunity” claim by the PIF and its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the U.S. [multi-year, revenue-sharing deal](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2023/01/19/liv-golf-news-tv-broadcast-deal-the-cw-network/) with the CW Network. The likes of Brendan Steele, Mito Pereira, Sebastian Munoz, Danny Lee and Dean Burmester make the league undoubtedly deeper, but they certainly won’t move the needle or attract an audience (at least in the U.S.). Opening rounds on Friday will be available on the CW app as well as the cwtv.com website. [new additions left something to be desired](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2023/02/18/liv-golf-news-brendan-steele-danny-lee-leaving-pga-tour/). If fans want to watch the live action when LIV tees it up in time zones outside the U.S. CW affiliates, as well as Nexstar owned and operated stations, in the U.S. The circuit will return to five of the eight venues that hosted tournaments in 2022, including Royal Greens Golf and Country Club in Saudi Arabia (Nov. The league will return to the former president’s club near Miami but as a regular-season event. It’s a unique move to say the least for LIV to relegate Doral, its most-attended event, and elevate the Saudi stop, given the poor turnout last year. The tournament in the Kingdom will serve as the new host of the team championship, which was held last year at Trump National Doral.

LIV Golf today announced the launch of LIV Golf Plus and LIVGolfPlus.com, the league's new app and global streaming site enabling fans across the world ...

“In keeping with the content distribution strategy of other major sports leagues, the LIV Golf Plus streaming app allows more access to our content from more places for more people, spanning the traditional golf consumer to the casual sports and entertainment viewer discovering golf for the first time. “The introduction of the LIV Golf Plus streaming app ensures fans around the world will receive direct access to live and on-demand coverage of our league’s groundbreaking launch,” says Will Staeger, LIV Golf Chief Media Officer. Viewers in more than 180 global territories will have the ability to tune in to LIV Golf tournaments beginning February 24-26 with LIV Golf Mayakoba, the debut event in the league’s first official season.

Andy Ogletree took a chance to join LIV Golf last year and only played one event. But he says the move still helped create playing opportunities, ...

In markets like Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Tampa and Hartford — where CBS and Weigel have those CW affiliates — other local stations will air LIV ...

Sinclair is certainly in a position to negotiate for the best possible arrangement with LIV since its affiliation agreement with CW expires in August. Deadline is hearing that CW secured a few smallish advertisers for national buys, though it’s likely the broadcast will limit breaks — at least in the first weekend. Deadline hears the Scripps-owned CW affiliates were late in agreeing to air LIV, only because of a recent decision to lean more heavily into local sports. Since CW affiliates are only contractually obligated to air primetime programming, all eight of the CBS-owned CW affiliates declined to air the weekend tourneys. “At the end of the day, a local station in every major market will be carrying What was missing from the surprise announcement last week was the list of CW affiliates that declined to air the Saudi-funded tour that has deeply divided professional golf (and kept CBS/Paramount, NBCUniversal and Disney/ESPN on the sidelines when LIV looked to upgrade its media deal in year two after launching last year with free YouTube streams).

Mayakoba, home of the El Camaleón Golf Course, is a 620-acre luxury resort nestled amid lagoons, jungle, and the stunning oceanfront of Mexico's Riviera Maya, ...

GigNet is a leader in the Digital Transformation of the region. Helping to make this event available to viewers around the world through secure, high-speed Internet for broadcasters and media is a major benefit for the Riviera Maya region as we have some of the world’s best natural settings and climate for golf. GigNet is the Mexican Caribbean brand of GigNet, Inc., a U.S. Mark Carney, OBE and President of GigNet Mexico, stated, “We are pleased to be asked to participate in making the LIV Tournament a success, including providing advanced connectivity to support the communications logistics of such a large and important event. Golf legend Greg Norman is the first and founding CEO of LIV Golf. LIV Golf is a new professional golf tour founded with the purpose to holistically supercharge and modernize professional golf on a global scale.

LIV Golf begins its second season today in Mexico and the league is still trying to balance expectations.

[Bubba Watson]will be “among seven players making their LIV debuts” today at El Camaleon golf course in Mexico. 35, is the league's “highest acquisition.” Meanwhile the [PGA Tour]has got off to a “flying start to 2023 with dramatic tournaments” at the WM Phoenix Open and Genesis Invitational, though LIV can “comfortably compare to more routine tour events” such as this week's [Honda]Classic. The idea that LIV Golf is for “has-beens and the hapless is long gone” as it begins its second season on Friday in Mexico, according to Rick Broadbent of the LONDON TIMES.

LIV Golf returns for its second season as the action gets underway at the El Camaleon Golf Course in Mayakoba, Mexico. The rebel tour caused a stir last ...

Now, live on TV, LIV Golf is back on Friday from Mexico. Here's how to watch, live stream and more.

The CW App The CW LIV Golfers Graeme McDowell (2015) and Pat Perez (2016) have won tournaments at the club. As has been custom in tournaments past, the first tournament of the year will tee off at 1:15 p.m. LIV Golf utilizes a shotgun start for its events, meaning all golfers start on different tees at the same time. Round 1 will be available exclusively on The CW App (free download, no subscription required).

The overall individual purse at El Camaleon Golf Club in Mexico is $20 million with the winner earning $4 million. The teams prize money is $5 million ...

The overall purse for the individual competition at El Camaleon Golf Club is $20 million, with everybody guaranteed to take home at least a six-figure check. ET—and [a new/first global partner](https://www.golfdigest.com/story/liv-golf-first-sponsor-easypost-2023) in EasyPost. [A new TV deal](https://www.golfdigest.com/story/liv-golf-tv-deal-2023)—you can find weekend action in the U.S.

Paul Casey and Jason Kokrak share the lead in Mexico after the opening round of LIV Golf's first tournament of the season.

The Belgian said he only joined when a spot became open because Hudson Swafford is having hip surgery and will be out for the remainder of the season. The PGA Tour suspended those players, leading to a lawsuit. He was part of the group at 68.