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LIV Golf announces three new events for US

New events will be part of 14-tournament schedule that LIV Golf says will be unveiled in full in the coming weeks

The Cedar Ridge Country Club in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, the venue for one of the three new LIV Golf events. Photograph: G Newman Lowrance/Getty Images
The Cedar Ridge Country Club in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, the venue for one of the three new LIV Golf events. Photograph: G Newman Lowrance/Getty Images
Wed Dec 14 2022 - 20:20

LIV Golf added three new stops in the US to its 2023 calendar on Wednesday, announcing events in Tucson, Tulsa and West Virginia.

The three events set for the Gallery Golf Club in Tucson (March 17th-19th), Cedar Ridge Country Club in Tulsa, (May 12th-14th), and The Greenbrier in West Virginia (August 4th-6th) will be part of the a 14-tournament schedule that LIV Golf said will be unveiled in full in the coming weeks.

LIV Golf announced in November it had a multi-year commitment to bring league events to Australia, starting at The Grange Golf Club in Adelaide (April 21th-23th).

Last year in its inaugural season LIV Golf staged eight tournaments, of which five were in the US, including two at former US president Donald Trump properties. None of the three events announced on Wednesday were on last season’s schedule.

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“LIV Golf’s expansion to new US markets adds to the growing excitement for the league launch in 2023,” said LIV Golf CEO and commissioner Greg Norman in a statement. “More fans across the country and around the globe will experience the LIV Golf energy and innovative competition that has reinvigorated the sport.”

LIV Golf League, which will play from February to September, will feature simultaneous team and individual play, with golfers competing for an unprecedented $405 million in prize purses. None of the breakaway series tournaments will clash with golf’s four Majors, international team events or heritage events.

The Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf series has lured players with the promise of guaranteed, big-money pay-days and a reduced schedule, while the US-based PGA Tour has suspended members who opted to join the rival circuit. Among the more high-profile players to join LIV are World Golf Hall of Fame member Phil Mickelson, twice Major champion Dustin Johnson and 2020 US Open winner Bryson DeChambeau.

Critics say LIV Golf, which is bankrolled by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, amounts to blatant “sportswashing” by a nation trying to improve its reputation tarnished by a history of human rights abuses.

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