Amid All the Chaos, LIV Golf Makes a Huge $1,500,000 Q-School Announcement

The 2023 LIV Golf season ended with a blast as Bryson DeChambeau’s Crushers GC won the Team Championship in Jeddah and Talor Gooch was awarded the title of Individual Champion.

Amidst the rejection from the R&A for making exceptions for LIV golfers, LIV Golf is looking to add new players to the roster for the 2024 season. The first event of the LIV Golf 2024 season will be held at the Abu Dhabi Golf Course, UAE. Here is what you need to know about the event!

LIV Golf Promotions with a $1.5M prize purse

A recent statement by R&A Chief Martin Slumber denied the rumors of LIV golfers getting exceptions to participate in the major. Only five players from the league are eligible to play: Cameron Smith, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson, and Dustin Johnson. 

Even after the setback, LIV announced the promotional event, inviting players from around the world. LIV Golf Promotions will run from December 8th to 10th. The three-day event will have four rounds and a 36-hole final day. The event has a prize purse of $1.5 million. All four rounds will have 18-hole strokes play. 

The top 20 and ties from round 1 will go into round two, where they will join players who got byes. The scores will be reset once again as the top 20 players from round two will then head onto the Sunday finals. The top three players will secure a spot in the 2024 LIV Golf season.

Andy Ogletree has been confirmed as the fourth player to replace the relegated golfer. The top three players after the final day will win $200,000, $150,000, and $100,00 respectively.

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Eligibility criteria and the schedule for rounds 1 & 2

There are two categories for both rounds. Category A and Category B for Round 1 and Round 2, respectively. According to the LIV Golf, the eligibility criteria for qualifying for Category A is as follows:

• 2023 Walker and Palmer Cup team members
• Champions and Runner-ups from top amateur events around the globe
• From the top 40 WAGR ranking 15 available players
• 3 available players from the top 5 of the Japanese Tour, KPGA Korean Tour, Sunshine Tour, and PGA Tour of Australasia 
• 2023 winners from the Korn Ferry Tour and Asian Tour
• Top 30 available players from the top 300 on The Universal Golf Ranking (TUGR).
• Invitations by LIV Golf

Players were exempted from round one and qualified for round 2/Category B:

• Top 2 in World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR)
• Rank 2 to 8 on the 2023 final International Series Ranking
• Five leading players from the top 30 of the Korn Ferry Tour and DP World Tour ranking 
• Winners of sanctioned events in the PGA Tour and DP World Tour 2022-2023
• From 2019 to 2023 Ryder Cup and President Cup’s participants
• Major’s Champions from 2019 to 2023
• Top 15 from top 150 in TUGR
• Players who are relegated or stand without a contract
• Invitations by the LIV Golf

The event will be exhilarating as new faces will enter the LIV Golf course. The event will be live-streamed and broadcast via LIV Golf Plus and the LIV Golf YouTube channel from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and from 12:30 to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday (local time). Are you excited to witness the first showdown of the LIV Golf 2024 season? Tell us in the comments below!

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