The LIV Golf professionals will now head to Andalucia, Spain, for LIV Golf Andalucia. The tenth event on the league's 2024 schedule will take place at the Real Club Valderrama in Andalucía, Spain, from Friday, July 12, to Sunday, July 14.
Like all the LIV Golf events on the Saudi-backed circuit, LIV Golf Andalucia will be a 54-hole, no-cut event.
Schedule:
Here's the schedule for the LIV Golf Andalucia event:
Friday, October 13: Round 1: 7:15 a.m. ET (1:15 p.m. local) shotgun start
Saturday, October 14: Round 2: 7:15 a.m. ET (1:15 p.m. local) shotgun start
Sunday, October 15: Round 3: 7:05 a.m. ET (1:05 p.m. local) shotgun start
LIV Golf Andalucia Top Players
LIV Spanish golfers Jon Rahm, Sergio Garcia, David Puig, and Eugenio Chacarra will be looked at closely as the Saudi breakaway tour returns to Andalucia for the second time. In the 2023 LIV Golf Andalucia event, Puig finished tied at the fifth position, Garcia finished tied at the tenth, and Chacarra finished 41st.
Jon Rahm of Legion XIII will be playing his first LIV tournament after joining the Tour in 2024 and will receive huge support from the crowd. His team, Legion XIII, won the previous LIV Golf Nashville event. Rahm said (via LIV Golf):
"It's always special to go back to Valderrama. It's a golf course with so much history – so much Spanish history – and I'm glad to be going back with the level of field and competition it deserves."
Tyrrell Hatton of Legion XIII will look to win his second consecutive title after winning at Nashville. The 2023 individual event was won by Talor Gooch while the team event was won by Torgue GC.
Purse
The 54 players, divided into 13 teams, will compete for the purse size of $25 million at LIV Golf Andalucia which includes $20 million for the individual and $5 million for the team. The winner will take home $ 4 million whereas the winning team will earn $3 million.
Season standings at LIV Golf explored
Here are the player's standings at the LIV Golf 2024 after nine events:
- Joaquin Niemann - 152.40
- Jon Rahm - 116.17
- Tyrrell Hatton - 95.49
- Dean Burmester - 93.74
- Louis Oosthuizen - 89.10
- Brooks Koepka - 84.23
- Sergio Garcia - 83.24
- Cameron Smith - 79.66
- Carlos Ortiz - 74.83
- Abraham Ancer - 73.39
- Dustin Johnson - 73.23
- Bryson DeChambeau - 73.16
- Talor Gooch - 72.13
- Paul Casey - 70.83
- Adrian Meronk - 64.74
- Matthew Wolff - 50.00
- Marc Leishman - 48.34
- Brendan Steele - 48.10
- Charl Schwartzel - 45.50
- Patrick Reed - 35.80
- Graeme McDowell - 35.75
- Sam Horsfield - 34.37
- Charles Howell III - 34.08
- Sebastian Muñoz - 33.82
- Richard Bland - 33.05
- Kevin Na - 30.62
- Anirban Lahiri - 29.75
- Peter Uihlein - 29.60
- Jason Kokrak - 28.58
- Thomas Pieters - 26.52
- David Puig - 26.08
- Lucas Herbert - 20.60
- Lee Westwood - 19.50
- Cameron Tringale - 17.25
- Andy Ogletree - 17.00
- Henrik Stenson - 14.41
- Caleb Surratt - 14.25
- Martin Kaymer - 14.23
- Matt Jones - 13.97
- John Catlin - 12.62
- Eugenio Chacarra - 12.17
- Mito Pereira - 12.00
- Phil Mickelson - 11.93
- Ian Poulter - 9.22
- Danny Lee - 8.40
- Jinichiro Kozuma - 8.40
- Pat Perez - 7.76
- Harold Varner III - 7.00
- Laurie Canter - 4.30
- Bubba Watson - 3.66
- Kalle Samooja - 3.40
- Branden Grace - 3.22
- Kieran Vincent - 2.47
- Scott Vincent - 1.57
- Anthony Kim - 0.00
- Hudson Swafford - 0.00