After a thrilling win at the U.S. Open, Bryson DeChambeau and company will tee it up at the inaugural LIV Golf Nashville, the second of a two-stop set in the southern United States (Houston and Nashville) before heading to Europe (Spain), ahead of the British Open.
Headlining the LIV Golf Nashville tournament is box office star Bryson Dechambeau, who pulled off one of the all-time great shots to win his second career U.S. Open and deny Rory McIlroy a long-awaited fifth major.
Joining the popular Youtube star are fellow major champions such as Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, and Cameron Smith, among others.
Below are some details to get you primed for an exciting week of golf at the acclaimed The Grove.
2024 LIV Golf Nashville
Pro Golf Weekly previews LIV Golf’s stop in Nashville for this week’s 2024 LIV Golf Nashville Primer.
The Skinny
Tournament:LIV Golf Nashville
Dates:June 21-23, 2024
Where: College Grove, Tenn.
Course:The Grove
Schedule Week: 9 of 14
Distance: Par 71 / 7,297
Format: 54-holes: 13 Teams, 54 Players
Purse: $25,000,000
Winning Share: $4,000,000
Winning Team Share: $3,000,000
TV Broadcast: The CW Network
Time Zone: CT (1 hour behind ET)
How to Follow: LIV Golf Nashville
The CW Network airs the LIV Golf League in one-hundred-percent of the U.S. markets.
TELEVISION: Fri-Sun: Noon ET- The CW Network
STREAMING: Fri: Noon ET – The CW App, LIVGolfPlus.com, Caffeine TV, Youtube; Sat-Sun: Noon ET – The CW App, LIVGolfPlus.com, Youtube
LINKS: Web | X/Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Youtube
The LIV Golf Format
The LIV Golf League 2024 features 13 teams comprised of four players, along with two wild card players. In total, 54 players will compete 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 start, 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 tournament winner. The event’s champion receives $4m in prize money along with 40 rankings points. At the conclusion of LIV Golf Chicago – the 2024 Individual Championship, the player with the most ranking points becomes the season’s Individual Champion.
Team Competition: After each of the first two rounds, the best three scores count to produce a team score. In the final round, all four scores 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 Nashville Storylines
- LIV Golf makes its first visit to Tennessee, which becomes the 12th different state to host a LIV Golf tournament.
- Five tournaments remain in the regular season that will determine the season-long Individual Champion and seeds for the final 2024 tournament, the Team Championship in Dallas.
- Crushers GC Captain Bryson DeChambeau makes his first start after winning the U.S. Open in epic fashion at Pinehurst with a dramatic 55-yard bunker shot to set up his winning par putt on the final hole.
- DeChambeau earned the second major victory of his career and joins Smash GC Captain Brooks Koepka (2023 PGA Champion) as players who have won majors since joining LIV Golf
- DeChambeau’s Crushers leads the team standings, while Torque GC Captain Joaquin Niemann is the current individual points leader.
- Cleeks GC, captained by two-time major winner Martin Kaymer, won its first LIV Golf team title at the previous tournament in Houston.
- Torque’s Carlos Ortiz won his first LIV Golf individual title by one stroke over Cleeks newcomer Adrian Meronk.
- Legion XIII’s Tyrrell Hatton is the only player this season to finish with points (top 24) in each of the first eight tournaments this season.
LIV Golf Nashville Field
(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. Hatton, Tyrrell
11. Herbert, Lucas
12. Horsfield, Sam
13. Howell III, Charles
14. Johnson, Dustin
15. Jones, Matt
16. Kaymer, Martin
17. Kim, Anthony
18. Koepka, Brooks
19. Kokrak, Jason
20. Kozuma, Jinichiro
21. Lahiri, Anirban
22. Lee, Danny
23. Leishman, Marc
24. Meronk, Adrian
25. McDowell, Graeme
26. Mickelson, Phil
27. Munoz, Sebastian
28. Na, Kevin
29. Niemann, Joaquin
30. Ogletree, Andy
31. Oosthuizen, Louis
32. Ortiz, Carlos
33. Pereira, Mito
34. Perez, Pat
35. Pieters, Thomas
36. Poulter, Ian
37. Puig, David
38. Rahm, Jon
39. Reed, Patrick
40. Samooja, Kalle
41. Schwartzel, Charl
42. Smith, Cameron
43. Steele, Brendan
44. Stenson, Henrik
45. Surratt, Caleb
46. Swafford, Hudson
47. Tringale, Cameron
48. Uihlein, Peter
49. Varner III, Harold
50. Vincent, Kieran
51. Vincent, Scott
52. Watson, Bubba
53. Westwood, Lee
54. Wolff, Matthew
Top-5 Betting Favorites
1. Bryson DeChambeau (7-1)
2. Jon Rahm (11-1)
2. Joaquin Niemann (11-1)
4. Brooks Koepka (12-1)
4. Tyrrell Hatton (12-1)
LIV Golf Nashville Teams
Below are the 13 teams (with captains italicized) who will compete in Singapore.
- ACES GC – Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Harold Varner III, Pat Perez
- CLEEKS GC – Martin Kaymer, Adrian Meronk, Richard Bland, Kalle Samooja
- CRUSHERS GC – Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey, Charles Howell III, Anirban Lahiri
- FIREBALLS GC – Sergio Garcia, Abraham Ancer, Eugenio Chacarra, David Puig
- HY FLYERS GC – Phil Mickelson, Brendan Steele, Cameron Tringale, Andy Ogletree
- IRON HEADS GC – Kevin Na, Scott Vincent, Danny Lee, Jinichrio Kozuma
- LEGION XIII GC – Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton, Caleb Surratt, Kieran Vincent
- MAJESTICKS GC – Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson, Sam Horsfield
- RANGEGOATS GC – Bubba Watson, Matthew Wolff, Peter Uihlein, Thomas Pieters
- RIPPER GC – Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Matt Jones, Lucas Herbert
- SMASH GC – Brooks Koepka, Talor Gooch, Jason Kokrak, Graeme McDowell
- STINGER GC – Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Branden Grace, Dean Burmester
- TORQUE GC – Joaquin Niemann, Mito Pereira, Sebastian Munoz, Carlos Ortiz
- WILD CARDS – Anthony Kim, Hudson Swafford
Teams: Top-5 Betting Favorites
1. Torque (Niemann) 4-1
2. Fireballs (Sergio) 5-1
2. Legion XIII (Rahm) 5-1
4. Smash (Koepka) 6-1
4. Crushers (DeChambeau) 6-1
The LIV Golf Course: The Grove
- Designed by LIV Golf CEO and Commissioner Greg Norman, The Grove opened in 2012.
- Golf Digest ranks The Grove as one of its top 10 courses in its Best In Tennessee list.
- The Grove hosted one of the four Korn Ferry Tour Finals events in 2023, and has also hosted USGA and NCAA tournaments.
- The course has been modified from a members’ par-72 to a par-71 for LIV Golf Nashville, with the second hole playing as a par-4 at 529 yards, making it the longest par 4 on the course.
- Tees and fairways grass are Zorro Zoysia, while the green is TifEagle Bermuda.
- Projected stimpmeter green speed will be between 12.5 to 13.
Fast Facts
Par: 35-36-71
Yards: 7,297
Par 3s: 4 (3, 5, 13, 15)
Par 5s: 3 (7, 11, 18)
Easiest Hole: 4th (Par 4, 344 yds)
LIV Golf Payouts: Points & Money
The winner of LIV Golf Nashville 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.
Individual
Pos-(Points)-Money
1 (40) $4,000,000
2 (30) $2,225,000
3 (24) $1,500,000
4 (18) $1,000,000
5 (16) $800,000
6 (14) $700,000
7 (13) $600,000
8 (12) $525,000
9 (11) $442,500
10 (10) $405,000
11 (8) $380,000
12 (7) $360,000
13 (6) $340,000
14 (5) $320,000
15 (4) $300,000
16 (3) $285,000
17 (3) $270,000
18 (2) $260,000
19 (2) $250,000
20 (2) $240,000
21 (1) $230,000
22 (1) $220,000
23 (1) $210,000
24 (1) $200,000
25 (-) $195,000
26 (-) $190,000
27 (-) $185,000
28 (-) $180,000
29 (-) $175,000
30 (-) $170,000
31 (-) $165,000
32 (-) $160,000
33 (-) $155,000
34 (-) $150,000
35 (-) $148,000
36 (-) $145,000
37 (-) $143,000
38 (-) $140,000
39 (-) $138,000
40 (-) $135,000
41 (-) $133,000
42 (-) $130,000
43 (-) $128,000
44 (-) $128,000
45 (-) $125,000
46 (-) $125,000
47 (-) $123,000
48 (-) $120,000
49 (-) $60,000
50 (-) $60,000
51 (-) $60,000
52 (-) $50,000
53 (-) $50,000
54 (-) $50,000
Team
1 (32) $3,000,000
2 (24) $1,500,000
3 (16) $500,000
4 (12) $0
5 (8) $0
6 (4) $0
7 (2) $0
8 (1) $0
9 (0) $0
10 (0) $0
11 (0) $0
12 (0) $0
13 (0) $0
Next Stop: LIV Golf Andalucia
Two national heroes. One iconic course. Jon Rahm and Sergio Garcia are coming back to reclaim Valderrama.
As preparation for the British Open, the LIV Golf League will head to Europe and play the second edition of LIV Golf Andalucia, contested at Real Club Valderama in southern Spain.
Sources: LIV Golf Media, Getty Images
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