LIV Golf has released a partial schedule for its upcoming third season, revealing a roster with a growing international presence, multiple events competing with marquee PGA Tour events and some notable omissions.
The schedule revealed Wednesday includes 12 of LIV’s expected 14 events. Seven of them will play internationally, a number that could rise to eight when the full schedule is completed. The six domestic events currently scheduled in the US include new stops in Las Vegas, Nashville and Houston.
In 2023, LIV played six events internationally and eight in the United States.
The schedule released Wednesday does not include dates or locations for the 2024 LIV Singles and Team Championships. It is expected that these events will be moved higher on the calendar, to avoid the schedule being pushed back to October, as seen in the past two seasons.
The 2024 LIV season will open in Mexico the first week of February. The following week, LIV will play February 8-10 at Las Vegas Country Club before Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada.
Other new U.S. stops will be June 7-9 at Houston Golf Club, which hosted the PGA Tour’s Houston Open from 2003-2019, and June 21-23 at The Grove in Nashville. Rich Harvest Farms, which hosted LIV events outside Chicago in 2022 and 2023, is not on the 2024 schedule.
A few of the 2024 LIV events will be played live versus the marquee PGA Tour events. The Las Vegas tournament will compete with The Genesis Invitational. An event will be held March 1-3 in Saudi Arabia during the Arnold Palmer Invitational. An event will be held from March 8 to 10 in Hong Kong against The Players Championship. The Houston event will be played versus The Memorial.
Whether or not these events will be played with LIV remains to be seen with the PGA Tour operating under the same umbrella. The framework agreement that creates a for-profit company combining the Tour’s business golf interests with an investment from the Saudi Public Investment Fund, which owns and operates LIV, has not yet been finalized.
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The LIV regular season will conclude August 16-18 at The Greenbrier in West Virginia.
In addition to the dates and locations of the individual and team tournaments, Wednesday’s schedule release did not include the U.S. location for the April 5-7 event before the Masters.
The schedule also does not yet include Trump Doral Stadium, the site of the 2022 and 2023 team championships. It is believed former President Donald Trump’s Miami resort could instead be the site of the event in early April.
If LIV chooses to return to Doral for the 24-team tournament, it will be caught in the middle of what should be an exciting 2024 U.S. presidential election cycle. After hosting two of its first eight events at Trump-owned courses in 2022, LIV has only played at Doral in 2023.
The likely location for the 2024 singles or team tournament is South Korea, where LIV is known to be interested in hosting an event.
International locations currently on the 2024 schedule include Mexico (February 2-4), Saudi Arabia (March 1-3), Hong Kong (March 8-10), Australia (April 26-28), and Singapore (May 3-5) . Spain (July 12-14) and the United Kingdom (July 26-28).
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