The LIV Golf League returns this week for the eleventh occasion of the season because the UK performs host for the primary and solely time in 2024.
In June 2022, the inaugural match was held at Centurion Membership in Hertfordshire because the Saudi-backed breakaway league started its ascent to disrupt the skilled sport.
Quick ahead two years, the collection has expanded quickly. Centurion held the LIV Golf UK occasion final 12 months, however this week will see JCB Golf & Nation Membership in Staffordshire host the occasion for the very first time.
LIV Golf UK by JCB will happen between July 26-28 and would be the remaining cease exterior the US for LIV Golf’s 2024 season. Among the many 56-man subject for the 54-hole occasion can be Ryder Cup stars Tyrrell Hatton and Jon Rahm, who will each be making their first appearances with LIV Golf within the UK on the occasion, together with a bunch of different main champions, together with Bryson DeChambeau, Cam Smith, Brooks Koepka, Sergio Garcia and Phil Mickelson.
Torque GC Captain Joaquin Niemann presently leads the person standings, having posted two wins and 6 different prime 10s this season. Legion XIII Captain Jon Rahm is in second place within the particular person standings and has completed top-10 in all 9 tournaments he has accomplished.
ENGLISHMEN TO THE FORE
Six English-born LIV Golf gamers, together with LIV Golf Nashville winner Tyrrell Hatton and double senior main champion Richard Bland, may have loads of assist this week as they compete in entrance of their house followers at LIV Golf UK for a complete prize fund of $25m.
Hatton joined LIV Golf within the offseason to change into a member of Ryder Cup teammate Jon Rahm’s growth crew, Legion XIII. He’s been among the many most constant performers this season, the one participant on the LIV Golf roster to complete with factors (prime 24) in every of the primary 10 tournaments. Legion XIII is a three-time crew winner this season.
The 51-year-old Bland just lately gained consecutive senior majors – the Senior PGA Championship and the US Senior Open. He additionally helped the Cleeks GC crew, captained by Martin Kaymer, win their first-ever crew title in Houston.
Paul Casey has been a key member of Bryson DeChambeau’s Crushers GC crew with 4 top-10s this season, together with a runner-up end in a playoff loss at Hong Kong.
Majesticks Co-Captains Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter are amongst England’s most celebrated gamers, with a mixed 61 skilled wins and 18 Ryder Cup appearances. Teammate Sam Horsfield just lately posted his finest LIV Golf end, a second place behind Hatton in Nashville.
THE COURSE
First opened in 2018, the JCB course was designed by Robin Hiseman of European Golf Design and is constructed on a 240-acre website adjoining to the JCB World Headquarters.
The 7,308-yard, par 72 course serves as a showpiece for the engineering excellence of JCB’s equipment and is barely open to workers of JCB and its company companions, with inexperienced charges costing £60 for workers and £70 for workers friends.
The course routing makes use of quite a lot of landscapes, together with open farmland, stately parkland, woodlands and spectacular lake lands. Holes 1 and three make the most of the Uttoxeter Canal, whereas holes 5, 11 and 12 play alongside the Alders Brook.
The island inexperienced seventeenth is the longest par 3 on the course at 244 yards, whereas the 506-yard sixth performs as a par 5 for members however can be a par 4 for LIV Golf UK. Holes 2 (337 yards) and 12 (303) are each doubtlessly drivable par 4s.
TICKETS
A restricted variety of hospitality tickets for LIV Golf UK by JCB are nonetheless obtainable from livgolf.com, beginning at £180 for the Birdie Shack on Saturday and rising to £245 for the Gallery Membership on Sunday.
LIV Golf UK Tee Occasions
Friday, July 12: 2.15pmSaturday, July 13: 2.15pmSunday, July 14: 2.15pm
UK viewers can watch the motion without cost on the LIV Golf YouTube channel.
