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2024 LIV Golf Miami prize money payouts for each player, team
8Apr By adminNo Comments
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2024 LIV Golf Miami prize money payouts for each player, team

It pays to play well in the LIV Golf League, just ask Dean Burmester. The 34-year-old won for the first time on the Saudi-backed circuit on Sunday after a two-hole playoff against Sergio Garcia at Trump National Doral to claim the league’s fifth event of the 2024 season, LIV Golf Miami. For his efforts, Burmester will take home the top prize of $4 million. Check out how much money each player and team earned at 2024 LIV Golf Miami. Individual prize money Position Player Score Earnings 1 Dean Burmester -11 $4,000,000 2 Sergio Garcia -11 $2,250,000 3 Matthew Wolff -10 $1,500,000 T4 Marc Leishman -8 $833,333 T4 Jon Rahm -8 $833,333 T4 Tyrrell Hatton -8 $833,333 T7 Bryson DeChambeau -7 $562,500 T7 Louis Oosthuizen -7 $562,500 T9 Abraham Ancer -6 $385,500 T9 Thomas Piete...
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2023 LIV Golf Bedminster prize money payouts for each player, team
13Aug By adminNo Comments
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2023 LIV Golf Bedminster prize money payouts for each player, team

It pays to play well on the LIV Golf League, just ask Cameron Smith. The 29-year-old won for the third time since he joined the Greg Norman-led and Saudi Arabia-backed circuit at the 2023 LIV Golf Bedminster event at Trump National in New Jersey on Sunday. For his efforts, Smith will take home the top prize of $4 million and has now made $13,684,667 so far this season just as an individual. Anirban Lahiri finished runner-up but a whopping seven shots back at 5 under. He will take home $2.25 million. Abraham Ancer, Patrick Reed and Dean Burmester each finished T-3 at 4 under and earned $1.1 million a piece. Check out how much money each player and team earned at LIV Golf’s 11th event of its 2023 season. Individual prize money Position Player Score Earnings 1 Cameron Smith -12 $4,000,0...
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Republicans Defend Saudi-PGA Tour Deal At Senate Hearing
11Jul By adminNo Comments
Politics

Republicans Defend Saudi-PGA Tour Deal At Senate Hearing

Republican senators at a congressional hearing rushed to defend a controversial deal that would give Saudi Arabia unprecedented influence over professional golf.At Tuesday’s hearing on the planned merger between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-controlled LIV Golf, GOP lawmakers offered a variety of arguments to challenge scrutiny of the interim deal and defend Saudi Arabia ― from saying the PGA Tour is making the best of a bad situation to claiming it is inappropriate for Congress to probe the merger.Republicans largely ignored revelations about the PGA Tour’s approach to negotiations, the scale of Saudi influence over the proposed new golf behemoth, and concerns that the Saudis’ increased sway will stifle criticism of the repressive kingdom.Unveiled in a shock announcement last month, the dea...
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Golf officials set to testify before the Senate about LIV Golf deal
11Jul By adminNo Comments
Money

Golf officials set to testify before the Senate about LIV Golf deal

Congressional lawmakers are expected to grill two PGA Tour officials on Tuesday in a hearing focused on the organization's controversial deal with Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf.Ron Price, the PGA Tour's chief operating officer, and Jimmy Dunne, a member of the group's governing board, are set to appear before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Price amid criticism that the alliance between the once bitterly competitive professional golfing enterprises amounts to "sportswashhing" Saudi Arabia's record of human rights abuses.Lawmakers also have raised concerns that the deal violates federal antitrust laws as it would merge two golf organizations into one super league where the world's most talented golfers would compete, monopolizing the sport.  ...
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