Jon Rahm This weekend he begins his new journey in the LIV Golfa circuit promoted by the Saudi Public Investment Fund that has up to twelve tournaments throughout the year spread around the world and that will prevent Rahm from competing in the events of the PGA Tour.

Rahm will be able to compete in the big four of golf, the Mastershe PGA Championshiphe Open Championship and the US Openbut his day-to-day life will be linked to this circuit, which, for a couple of years, has stood up to the PGA Tour, the circuit par excellence of world golf.

Main differences between the PGA and LIV Golf

–Three days of competition: From now on, Rahm will see his competition weeks reduced by one day of golf. Just as on the PGA Tour the tournaments have four days, from Thursday to Sunday, with this competition the competition days are reduced to three, normally from Friday to Sunday.

–54 holes: As there are only three days, the players do not do four laps, but three. The 72 holes played on the PGA Tour become only 54 in the LIV, so the differences can be adjusted more than in a PGA tournament. In fact, the name of the competition was chosen for that very reason, because 54 in Roman numerals is ‘LIV’.

–No cuts at the end of Friday: The LIV Golf circuit does not have cuts. In the PGA, at the end of the day on Friday, the first 65 qualified golfers advance to the next day, but the rest go home. For its part, on this circuit everyone makes it to the weekend, regardless of whether they are further behind or ahead in the standings.

-It is played individually and by teams: In addition to the individual competition, LIV Golf offers another competition to add spectacle, such as the team event. Simultaneously with the individual results, there are 13 fixed teams with four golfers each who have their own logo, name and colors. During the first two rounds, the two best scores of each team are used to add them to a general one and on the third day the result of a third player also counts to know the winning team of each event. Likewise, at the end of the season a great event called Team Championship which is played only by teams.

-No dress code: In PGA events held in the United States you must wear long pants to play golf. However, in LIV, players can play in shorts or dressed as they see fit.

–Shorter days, because everyone leaves at the same time. Shotgun vs. tee time: On the American circuit, the days end up being quite long in terms of schedules because each group of three players has a tee time from hole number 1, normally between five and ten minutes later than the previous one. cluster. The LIV, however, has the so-called ‘shotgun’. On each hole, from 1 to 18, a player is waiting for the horn that indicates that it can be started. At that moment, eighteen players start, a minute later the other eighteen and then the last eighteen, which allows the day to barely last four or five hours.

–Biggest prizes: Each tournament has a purse of 25 million dollars (20 million to be distributed in the individual tournament and 5 million per team tournament). The winner of a LIV Tour tournament pockets $4 million, while the members of each winning team take home $750,000. Likewise, the tournaments that close the season have a special purse, although the amount to be distributed in the 2024 team tournament has not yet been announced. In 2023, said event had a purse of 50 million dollars to be distributed between the winner and the first classified.

Source: Eitb

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