Application invitations have been sent to prospective Liv Golf Invitational contestants for the initial stop in London. As tends to happen with email, the link and password has been forwarded around and found its way to an inbox of mine.
Unless you meet the criteria, you cannot apply. But in the interest of making sure all worthy candidates have their fair shot at the $25 million purse, I’ll share the criteria below with carefully crafted insights in between. (Note the nice double dollar sign choice for the password.)
LIV GOLF INVITATIONAL LONDON
WHEN: 3-day, 54-hole tournament taking place June 9-11, Thursday through Saturday. This ensures anyone competing in the U.S. Open the following week has the ability to travel back to the States on Sunday.
No chartered jet to Logan?
WHERE: Centurion Club, 35 minutes north of Central London
FIELD: 48 players across 12 teams (4 players per team)
PRIZE PURSE: $25MM Prize Purse with $20MM distributed based on individual performance (1st $4MM - 48th $120K) and $5MM distributed across the top 3 teams and paid out evenly to each team member (1st $3MM, 2nd $1.5MM, 3rd $500K)
THE DRAFT: A draft will take place on Tuesday, June 7 to roster the 12 teams, with LIV appointed Team Captains selecting their 3 open team positions in snake draft format
LIV appointed Team Captains should be fun.
Greg, I have Gary Player on line one, should I send him to voice mail?
HELL NO! Put him through pronto!
PRO-AM: The pro-am will take place on Wednesday, June 8th
For that much money maybe players can buy pro-am spots and just choose to play a practice round?
COMMITTMENT: Participating in LIV Golf Invitational London does not require you to play in future events
This registration is only for our London event. As players have the option to enter and compete in one or all of our events, we will be sending out separate invitations to request an invite for each of our events in the coming months.
Entries for this event close at 11:59PM EDT Tuesday, May 10th. Invitations will be on a rolling basis with written notifications to the final field commencing Monday, May 23rd.
Taking it right to the bitter end.
LIV GOLF INVITATIONALS 2022 - EXEMPTION CRITERIA:
1) Asian Tour Players(3):
a) Leading 2 players from within the top-20 of the final 2021 Asian Tour Order of Merit Standings
b) Leading 1 player from within the top-10 of the Asian Tour Order of Merit at close of Entries
For now.
2) DP World Tour Players (3):
a) Leading 2 players from within the top-20 of the final 2021 European Tour Race to Dubai Standings
b) Leading 1 player from within the top-10 of the DP World Tour Rankings at close of Entries
Nice recognition of the branding transition.
3) PGA Tour Players (3):
a) Leading 2 players from within the top-30 of the final 2021 PGA Tour FedEx Cup Standings
b) Leading 1 player from within the top-10 of the PGA Tour FedEx Cup standings at close of Entries
Someone finally pays proper respect to the FedExCup!
4) Leading 2 players from within the top 15 of the final 2021/2022 standings of each of the PGA Tour of Australasia, Sunshine Tour and Japan Golf Tour (6)
Two spots each. Generous!
5) Leading 3 players from the Asian Tour International Series rankings at close of entries (3)
You go Asian Tour!
6) The two leading players from the International Series London not otherwise exempt (2)
But wasn’t that event replaced by the Liv London? I can’t keep up.
7) Leading 22 players from the OWGR at close of entries (22)
Whoa, but no minimum on the number. Bold.
8) Balance of field to be made up at the discretion of LIV Golf Commissioner and Championship Committee
Ah now we’re getting somewhere. Will Greg Norman go all Dick Cheney and decide he’s the best candidate to fill out the field?