Winners of the final of the controversial circuit on Donald Trump’s course in Miami, the 4 Aces of American Captain Dustin Johnson cashed a check for 16 million dollars.
After the team confrontations in match play during the first two days, the final at 4 of the LIV Golf Invitational took place on Sunday in stroke play on the terrible course Blue Monster of the Doral at Miami.
It is finally the team of the winners of the Masters 2018 and 2020, Patrick Reed et Dustin Johnsonwho won by beating the 100% Australian formation of Cameron Smith.
Classification
-7 4 Aces (Johnson, Reed, Perez, Gooch)
-6 Punch (Smith, Leishman, Jones, Ormsby)
+4 Smash (Brooks Koepka, Chase Koepka, Kokrak, Uihlein)
+10 Stinger (Oosthuizen, Schwartzel, Grace, Du Plessis)
Dollars like it’s raining
The race of the circuit financed by the Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia was the best endowed in the history of golf with 50 million dollars!
The big winner of this first year of the LIV is Dustin Johnson with colossal gains collected in 8 tournaments!
The double Major winner added 4 million dollars (his share of the 16 million pocketed by his team in Miami) to the amounts already collected this year on the LIV.
He had won 13.6 million in the previous 7 tournaments and 18 million for his place as number 1 in the general individual classification.
In total, DJ saw his bank account increase by 35.6 million dollars in 5 months !
The details of the winnings of the final
Winners : 4 Aces (Dustin Johnson, Pat Perez, Talor Gooch, Patrick Reed) – 16 million dollars or 4 million per player.
2nd : Punch (Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Matt Jones, Wade Ormsby) – 8 million dollars or 2 million per player.
3rd : Smash (Brooks Koepka, Chase Koepka, Jason Kokrak, Peter Uihlein) – 6 million dollars or 1.5 million per player.
4th : Stinger (Louis Oosthuizen, Branden Grace, Charl Schwartzel, Hennie Du Plessis) – 4 million dollars or 1 million per player.
Eliminated in the semi-finals ($3 million per team or $750,000 per player)
Cleeks (Shergo Al Kurdi, Laurie Canter, Graeme McDowell, Richard Bland)
Crushers (Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey, Charles Howell III, Anirban Lahiri)
Fireballs (Sergio Garcia, Carlos Ortiz, Eugenio Chacarra, Abraham Ancer)
Majesticks (Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood, Henrik Stenson, Sam Horsfield)
Eliminated in the quarter-finals ($1 million per team or $250,000 per player)
IronHeads (Kevin Na, Sihwan Kim, Sadom Kaewkanjana, Phachara Khongwatmai)
Niblicks (Harold Varner III, James Piot, Turk Pettit, Hudson Swafford)
Hy Flyers (Phil Mickelson, Matthew Wolff, Cameron Tringale, Bernd Wiesberger)
Torque (Joaquin Niemann, Jediah Morgan, Scott Vincent, Adrian Otaegui)
Discounted tickets
On the other hand, on the spectator side, tickets to attend the last tournament put on sale for 49 dollars on the official LIV website were exchanged between 3 and 5 dollars on online resale platforms.
LIV Golf’s $50 million season finale ends today, and they’re selling final round passes for $49.
You can get in the door for pocket change on the secondary market. pic.twitter.com/pYfuH9vlXS
— Adam Woodard (@AdamWoodard) October 30, 2022
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