For the first time since its inception in 2022, LIV Golf will open its season with four consecutive international events.
The Saudi Arabia-financed league will start its fourth year with tournaments in Asia, Australia and the Middle East.
The season opens Feb. 6-8 with LIV’s debut event in the Saudi Arabia capital of Riyadh. LIV was in Jeddah its first three years. Jupiter’s Brooks Koepka will be sad to see Jeddah off the schedule after winning there in 2022 and 2023.
LIV will then make the 7,300-mile trip across the Indian Ocean to Australia, for its next event, Feb. 14-16, at the Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, where it has become wildly popular. LIV has been in Adelaide the last two seasons.
Two weeks later, on March 7-9, LIV heads to China for the second consecutive year with its tournament in Hong Kong.
LIV stays in Asia and heads to Singapore’s Sentosa Golf Club for the third straight year, March 14-16, completing the first four of its 14-event season.
LIV opened its season outside of the U.S. its first three seasons in Hertfordshire, England, for its inaugural event in 2022 and the last two years at Mayakoba in Mexico. But then it has always returned home, playing its second week outside of Portland in 2022, Tucson in 2023 and Las Vegas this year.
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LIV Tour 2025 won’t step on US soil until April
The schedule means LIV will not hold an event on U.S. soil for the first three months of the PGA Tour schedule. The Greg Norman run league’s first tournament in the country likely will be in April.
The Tour’s Florida Swing starts with the Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches Feb. 27-March 2 at PGA National.
LIV’s 2024 regular season has two events remaining, Sept. 13-15 at Bolingbrook, Illinois, and the following week, where the team championship will be decided in Dallas.
Tom D’Angelo is a senior sports columnist and golf reporter for The Palm Beach Post. He can be reached at tdangelo@pbpost.com.
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