LIV

LIV (pronounced "lihv", as in "live free" or "living") is a new golf series that holds tournaments at Trump-owned golf courses, which the PGA Tour shamefully boycotts in order to pander to the anti-Trump liberal media. The full name of LIV is "LIV Golf Invitational Series."

The LIV ends the liberal PGA Tour monopoly over professional golf, as should be done to other sports monopolies such as the corrupt, liberal NFL. In addition to its pro-freedom or even a coincidental pro-life connotation, LIV is the Roman numeral for 54, representing the number of holes played in each event. Saudi Arabian money initially funds, reportedly in a total amount of $2 billion, this LIV group of top players and tournament prize money. There are prizes for individual and team performance.

The roster for 2023 is 48 players, which is expected to be filled with announcements on or about July 20, 2022, upon which the field will be "closed".

As of July 19, 2022, a total of 17 top players in the PGA Tour had signed up with LIV, and 45 players overall have joined it.

Trump Golf Course Tournaments

LIV holds tournaments at Trump-owned golf courses, in contrast with the media-controlled PGA's boycott of Trump (and even withdrawing a tournament from a Trump course).

The first LIV Golf Invitational Bedminster is being held on July 29-31 in New Jersey, with massive crowds of fans expected. Prize money for this Bedminster tournament is $25 million, far more than the $14 million in prize money for the British Open (Open Championship).

In addition, LIV has already sold out its final tournament of the 2022 season at Trump's golf course in Miami, October 27-30.

Players

Five out of the top 11 golfers have already joined LIV as of July 15, 2022:

• Dustin Johnson
• Brooks Koepka
• Talor Gooch
• Bryson DeChambeau
• Lee Westwood
• Ian Poulter

Also, one of biggest names in all of golf joined LIV: 51-year-old Phil Mickelson. Dustin Johnson and Mickelson are T8 and T26 for most PGA Tour wins, with 45 and 24 career victories, respectively. Crowd favorite Sergio Garcia, an 11-time PGA and 16-time DP winner, has also joined LIV.

The inaugural tournament has a 54-hole, no-cut, stroke-play format of continuous play such that all are competing at the same time by starting at different holes. The field of 48 features four of the current OWGR top 50:

• 13. Dustin Johnson
• 20. Louis Oosthuizen
• 33. Kevin Na
• 35. Talor Gooch

Field for Bedminster tournament

A total of 45 players out of 48 slots have been announced for the Bedminster tournament:

• Abraham Ancer
• Richard Bland
• Laurie Canter
• Paul Casey
• Eugenio Chacarra
• Bryson DeChambeau
• Hennie du Plessis
• Sergio Garcia
• Talor Gooch
• Branden Grace
• Justin Harding
• Sam Horsfield
• Yuki Inamori
• Dustin Johnson
• Matt Jones
• Sadom Kaewkanjana
• Martin Kaymer
• Phachara Khongwatmai
• Ryosuke Kinoshita
• Brooks Koepka
• Chase Koepka
• Jinichiro Kozuma
• Graeme McDowell
• Phil Mickelson
• Jediah Morgan
• Kevin Na
• Shaun Norris
• Louis Oosthuizen
• Wade Ormsby
• Carlos Ortiz
• Pat Perez
• Turk Pettit
• James Piot
• Ian Poulter
• David Puig (am)
• Patrick Reed
• Charl Schwartzel
• Travis Smyth
• Hudson Swafford
• Hideto Tanihara
• Peter Uihlein
• Scott Vincent
• Lee Westwood
• Bernd Wiesberger
• Matthew Wolff

(three vacant spots likely to be filled soon by high-profile additions to LIV)

Management

The famous golfer and longtime Republican Greg Norman is the CEO of LIV, and is known for being pro-player and not one to pander to the liberal media.

Broadcasters

As of July 18, LIV tournaments have been viewable only through online live streaming. Commentators have included Arlo White, the former NBC commentator for the British soccer Premier League, as well as former Golf Channel analysts Jerry Foltz and Dom Boulet. It has been reported that David Feherty is leaving NBC/Golf Channel in order to accept a job as an announcer with LIV.

Charles Barkley has indicated his interest in becoming an LIV commentator.