LIV Golf motion returns to UK shores this week when the eleventh match of the league’s 14-tournament schedule tees off at JCB Golf & Nation Membership in Staffordshire from July 23-26.
The league is making its fifth go to general to England, having performed its inaugural match at Centurion Membership in 2022 after which once more in 2023, earlier than transferring to JCB in 2023.
Final yr’s LIV Golf UK occasion attracted over 43,000 spectators over the course of the three-day match, and with this yr’s occasion expanded to 72 holes over 4 days, attendance is ready to develop even additional for the ultimate worldwide occasion of the LIV Golf season earlier than returning to the US for the closing three tournaments.
HOME-GROWN STARS ON SHOW
Contemporary from competing at The Open Championship, English followers can look ahead to seeing a bunch of main stars among the many 57-player subject, together with Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton, whereas former Ryder Cup legends Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Paul Casey can even be in motion on house soil.
Hatton has one of the best LIV Golf results of any English participant on house soil, tying for second behind his Legion XIII captain Jon Rahm at JCB in 2024.
“Taking part in house occasions are at all times enjoyable,” Hatton mentioned. “Residence followers on the whole, even when issues aren’t going nicely, at all times assist you. When you’ve got a very good second, you get a very good cheer – and that may put an additional spring in your step.”
The all-English Majesticks staff are hoping to attract on their house assist to show round a disappointing 2026 marketing campaign. They enter JCB in final place within the season-long staff standings however would love to present their followers one thing to cheer for.
“I’m very a lot wanting ahead to returning to JCB,” mentioned Majesticks Co-Captain Ian Poulter. “It’s change into our house occasion and the followers at all times come out in drive. We’ve an unbelievable fan village, unbelievable activations. We’ve the pub. It’s a particular week.”
Followers may watch the league’s forged record of worldwide stars tackle the difficult JCB course, together with final yr’s LIV Golf UK by JCB champion Joaquin Niemann and 2022 Open champion Cam Smith, and 2017 Masters champions Sergio Garcia.
Along with {the golfing} motion, Saturday night time will see Chase & Standing will take over JCB Golf & Nation Membership with an unique DJ set, bringing their iconic drum & bass sound and unmistakable vitality to Staffordshire.
COURSE CHANGES
Designed by Robin Hiseman of European Golf Design, JCB’s championship course opened for play in 2018 and is open solely to workers and visitors of tractor producer JCB. The 7,332-yard course routing options a wide range of landscapes, together with open farmland, stately parkland, woodlands and spectacular lake lands.
The course has undergone a number of vital modifications since final yr, with the sixth gap, which has been essentially the most troublesome gap the earlier two years of LIV Golf UK when it performed as a par 4, now turns into a par 5, with the complete course now at par 72. The again tee on the sixth has been barely pushed again and enlarged, with the opening prolonged to 509 yards. Different modifications embody new again tees on holes 5, 7, 10 and 14, with the par-4 seventh now enjoying 24 yards longer at 494 yards, and the quick 14th now enjoying as much as 144 yards.
START TIMES, PARKING & TICKETING
Gates open at 10am all through the match when festivities kick off within the Fan Village earlier than the shotgun begin at 1.15pm on every of the match days.
Followers with grounds passes should buy a parking lot house which permits them to both stroll or ‘Park & Journey’ to the course. The ‘Park & Journey’ service will probably be freed from cost with no ticket or pre-booking wanted. Shuttle buses will function half-hour earlier than the gates open and a minimum of one hour after gates shut.
All occasion grounds passes and hospitality tickets for Saturday embody entry to the post-golf live performance. Alternatively, followers can seize enhanced occasion expertise or hospitality tickets. Kids aged 12 and beneath go free when accompanied by a paying grownup.
Dwell protection TV of LIV Golf UK will probably be on TNT Sports activities, LIV Golf’s unique broadcast companion within the area. For broadcast timetables, go to tntsports.co.uk.
To discover the ticketing choices for LIV Golf UK by JCB, go to LIVGolf.com.
