LIV not returning to Florida for season-ending team tournament
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Brooks Koepka can relax now.
The Jupiter resident recently trolled LIV Golf on social media about the slow stream of information concerning the 2024 schedule. On Wednesday, the Saudi-backed league released that schedule, which once again includes 14 events, with a few details to come.
The first tournament in the United States will be held the same weekend as the Super Bowl, at the Las Vegas Country Club in Las Vegas, where the NFL championship game will be played. LIV’s 54-hole events typically run Friday-Sunday, but that week will be Thursday-Saturday.
LIV has yet to announce the sites for three events: April 5-7 and the final two weekends that determine the individual and team champions.
The event in April is the week before the Masters and is expected to be in Florida. The individual and team championships are expected to be in Chicago and Dallas, according to SI.com. The season will end Sept. 22, a month sooner than in 2023.
If the event in Florida is not held at Doral, that would mean LIV has shunned all Donald Trump properties after holding five tournaments at Trump’s courses in the first two seasons. But LIV could return to Trump National Doral if it cannot play at another suitable course in the state. As it is now, they are not returning to two Trump venues that held tournaments last year at Bedminster in New Jersey and in Virginia just northwest of Washington, D.C.
Doral has been the site of the seasonending team championship for the first two years of LIV.
For the second straight year, the season opens at El Camaleón Golf Course in Mayakoba, Mexico. That event will be Feb. 2-4.
Other U.S. sites included Houston (June 7-9), Nashville (June 21-23) and Greenbrier in West Virginia (Aug. 16-18).
International events following Mayakoba include Saudi Arabia (March 1-3), Hong Kong (March 8-10), Australia (April 26-28), Singapore (May 3-5), Spain (July 12-14) and the United Kingdom (July 26-28).
Las Vegas, Houston, Nashville and Dallas are new domestic venues for LIV.
Three events will compete directly against Signature events on the PGA Tour. Mayakoba is opposite the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Las Vegas not only is the same weekend as the Super Bowl but also the WM Phoenix Open.
Houston is competing with Jack Nicklaus’ Memorial.
Koepka first posted his displeasure with the schedule not having been announced on an Instagram photo Saturday and doubled down Sunday.
LIV Golf’s 2024 schedule:
Feb. 2-4: Mayakoba, Mexico
Feb. 8-10: Las Vegas
March 1-3: Saudi Arabia
March 8-10: Hong Kong
April 5-7: Florida (TBD)
April 26-28: Adelaide, Australia
May 3-5: Singapore
June 7-9: Houston
June 21-23: Nashville
July 12-14: Spain
July 26-28: England
Aug. 16-18: Greenbrier, West Virginia
Sept. 13-15: Chicago*
Sept. 20-22: Dallas*
*Events in Chicago, Dallas yet to be confirmed.