LIV Golf Invitational Chicago
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Sugar Grove, Illinois |
| Established | 2022 |
| Course(s) | Rich Harvest Farms |
| Par | 72 |
| Length | 7,408 yards (6,774 m) |
| Tour(s) | LIV Golf |
| Format | Individual and team stroke play |
| Prize fund | US$20,000,000 (individual) US$5,000,000 (team) |
| Month played | September |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 203 Cameron Smith (2022) |
| To par | −13 as above |
| Current champion | |
 Cameron Smith | |
| Location Map | |
  Rich Harvest Farms Location in the United States  Rich Harvest Farms Location in Illinois | |
The LIV Golf Invitational Chicago is a professional golf tournament held at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois, outside of Chicago.
The inaugural event was held in September 2022 as part of the LIV Golf Invitational Series, a golf series led by Greg Norman and funded by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund. The 48-player field featured several former major championship including Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed and Sergio García,[1] and was won by 2022 Open champion Cameron Smith.[2]
Format
The tournament was a 54-hole individual stroke play event, with a team element. Four-man teams were announced on the Monday before the tournament, with a set number of their total scores counting for the team on each day. Each round commenced with a shotgun start, with the leaders beginning on the first hole for the final round, in order to finish on the eighteenth.[3]
Inaugural field
48 golfers participated in the inaugural LIV Chicago event.[a]
- Abraham Ancer
- Richard Bland
- Laurie Canter
- Paul Casey
- Eugenio Chacarra
- Bryson DeChambeau (c)
- Sergio García (c)
- Talor Gooch
- Branden Grace
- Sam Horsfield
- Charles Howell III
- Dustin Johnson (c)
- Matt Jones
- Sadom Kaewkanjana
- Martin Kaymer (c)
- Phachara Khongwatmai
- Sihwan Kim
- Brooks Koepka (c)
- Chase Koepka
- Jason Kokrak
- Anirban Lahiri
- Marc Leishman
- Graeme McDowell
- Phil Mickelson (c)
- Jediah Morgan
- Kevin Na (c)
- Joaquín Niemann
- Shaun Norris
- Louis Oosthuizen (c)
- Wade Ormsby (c)
- Carlos Ortiz
- Pat Perez
- Turk Pettit
- James Piot
- David Puig
- Ian Poulter
- Patrick Reed
- Charl Schwartzel
- Cameron Smith
- Henrik Stenson
- Hudson Swafford (c)
- Cameron Tringale
- Peter Uihlein
- Harold Varner III
- Scott Vincent
- Lee Westwood
- Bernd Wiesberger
- Matthew Wolff
Teams
- 4 Aces GC: Johnson (c), Gooch, Perez, Reed
- Cleeks GC: Kaymer (c), McDowell, Canter, Bland
- Crusher GC: DeChambeau (c), Casey, Howell III, Lahiri
- Fireball GC: García (c), Ancer, Ortiz, Chacarra
- HY Flyers GC: Mickelson (c), Wiesberger, Wolff, Tringale
- Iron Heads GC: Na (c), Kaewkanjana, Khongwatmai, Kim
- Majesticks GC: Westwood (c), Stenson, Poulter, Horsfield
- Niblicks GC: Swafford, Piot, Pettit, Varner III
- Punch GC: Ormsby, Jones, Leishman, Smith
- Smash GC: B. Koepka (c), C. Koepka, Kokrak, Uihlein
- Stinger GC: Oosthuizen (c), Schwartzel, Grace, Norris
- Torque GC: Niemann, Vincent, Puig, Morgan
Winners
Individual
| Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Cameron Smith |
203 | −13 | 3 strokes |  Dustin Johnson Peter Uihlein
|
Team
| Year | Winner[a] | Score (to par) |
Margin of victory |
Runner-up[a] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4 Aces GC | Talor Gooch |
−24 | 1 stroke | Smash GC | Brooks Koepka (c)
|
| Dustin Johnson (c) |
Chase Koepka
| |||||
| Pat Perez |
Jason Kokrak
| |||||
| Patrick Reed |
Peter Uihlein
| |||||
Notes
References
- ^ "LIV Roster". LIV Golf. June 7, 2022. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
- ^ Priest, Evin (September 18, 2022). "Cam Smith wins LIV Golf's Chicago event, proves he's not 'a worse player' just because he switched tours". Golf Digest. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
- ^ Scrivener, Peter (June 8, 2022). "LIV Golf - all you need to know about Saudi-funded series". BBC Sport. Retrieved June 12, 2022.