LIV Golf is returning to Trump National Doral, but this will mark the first time the event is played when the property’s owner is President of the United States.
The event, which was speculated earlier but now is official as LIV revealed its remaining schedule Tuesday morning, will be April 4-6, the week before the Masters. This marks the fourth straight year LIV will hold a tournament at Donald Trump’s course just outside of Miami, the second straight it will be a tune-up for LIV golfers headed to Augusta.
Trump, the president elect and Palm Beach resident, will be about six weeks into his second term as president when the event is held. He played in the pro-am at Doral in 2022 but skipped the last two years.
Donald Trump greeted LIV golfers before Doral final round
Trump, though, was there to greet golfers last year before the final round.
LIV’s 2025 schedule once again will feature 14 events. They will be held in nine countries across four continents. Eight events will be outside the U.S.
The final four events announced Tuesday: April 4-5 at Doral; April 25-27 at Club de Golf Chapultepec in Mexico; June 6-8 at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Washington, D.C.; and Aug. 22-24, the Team Championship at The Cardinal at Saint John’s Resort in Plymouth, Michigan.
The Team Championship, which is the same weekend as the PGA Tour’s Tour Championship, will be held at a third different location in three years.
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The event at Doral is LIV’s first of the season held in the U.S. The year starts with four consecutive international events: Feb. 6-8 in the Saudi Arabia capital of Riyadh; Feb. 14-16 in Australia; March 7-9 in Hong Kong; March 14-16 in Singapore.
With the event the week before the Masters, the preference was to play in Florida to allow those LIV golfers with exemptions to play at Augusta this year — including Jupiter’s Brooks Koepka — an easy trip to the season’s first major championship on the PGA Tour.
Tom D’Angelo is a senior sports columnist and reporter for The Palm Beach Post. He can be reached at tdangelo@pbpost.com.
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