The league also offers $30 million in performance bonuses, with $18 million going to the year’s top individual player, and a $50 million Team Championship, with a $16 million prize for the winning team of four. Individual winners get $4 million, the winning team of four gets $5 million to split and, because LIV tournaments don’t have cuts, the last-place player is still guaranteed $120,000. That’s how much LIV Golf pays out for each of its 14 regular tournaments. It has squashed past competitors, including Norman’s World Golf Tour in the ‘90s, by threatening to sanction players who sign with competitors. The PGA tour oversees 47 events, which makes it almost essential to a pro-golfer’s career. By June 9, the PGA had suspended 17 players who’d pledged to LIV and promised future suspensions for anyone who participated in LIV events.
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In June, LIV wooed some of the PGA’s top-talent with multi-million dollar payouts, reportedly paying Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau $100 million each to play for LIV, plus another $200 million for Phil Mickelson. Backed by $2 billion from PIF, it has offered players big enough buyouts to offset the cost of switching tours. The league’s golfers compete on shorter courses for bigger prizes, and party after they do it. 1 Greg Norman, and hosted its first tournament at the Centurion Club outside of London on June 9-10. LIV was launched in 2021 under CEO and former golf No. “It is plain that PIF is not a mere investor in LIV it is the moving force behind the founding, funding, oversight and operation of LIV,” Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen reportedly wrote in her February 9 ruling allowing the PGA to depose PIF and Al Rumayyan.
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