LIV Golf Greenbrier 2024: Is another sub-60 on the cards for Bryson in West Virginia?
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The breakaway tour returns stateside for its penultimate regular season event at LIV Golf Greenbrier where Bryson DeChambeau shot an historic 58 to win in 2023.
Bryson DeChambeau added his name to another record in golf’s history books last time around at LIV Golf Greenbrier when he destroyed the Old White course with a 12-under-par 58 to capture his first LIV Golf title.
In doing so, Bryson joined an exclusive club of just four players including Jim Furyk to achieve the feat, and with confidence already high after adding a second US Open title to his resume, few will bet against him going low again.
Following a spectacular collapse on his final nine holes at the Olympic Golf at Le Nationale, LIV Golf UK Champion Jon Rahm will be keen to bounce back with a victory that propels him closer to first place in the individual standings. Rahm admitted that his stretch of play from the second round to the back nine of the final round was “probably about as good as I’ve played since early last year.” He remains the only player to have finished in the top 10 of every LIV event this year.
Other players tipped to go well this week include Rahm’s teammate and Nashville Champion Tyrrell Hatton who has secured points in every single LIV tournament this season and has finished third or better in the last three events. The only other LIV player to return from Paris with a top-10 finish was current leader Joaquin Niemann who has notched up the 162 birdies this season – more than any other player. The man from Chile will need to keep the momentum going for a few more weeks still if he’s to hold off Rahm from stealing the title in his debut season.
After being handed a one-tournament suspension for “violating the league’s anti-doping policy during LIV Golf Nashville,” Graeme McDowell’s vacancy on Smash GC is set to be filled by American John Catlin.
What is the format of LIV Golf Greenbrier?
With the addition of a 13th franchise – Rahm’s Legion XIII, the 2024 field rises to 54 players, inclusive of the two wildcard players – Anthony Kim and Hudson Swafford, who compete as unsigned individuals.
The team-assigned players compete in two competitions simultaneously- an individual event and a team event. Each stroke counts in the individual event, whereas in the team event, only the combined scores of the team’s top three players count for rounds 1 & 2, with all four scores counting in the final round of each event.
Each event is played over 54 holes, with no cuts and shotgun starts. For more information, check out our LIV Golf: Everything You Need to Know page.
Where is LIV Golf Greenbrier played?
The par-70 Old White course in Greenbrier, West Virginia hosts the tournament for the second consecutive year, measuring slightly longer than 2023 at 7,299 yards. Only four players in last year’s 48-man field failed to finish below par for the tournament with 22 players finishing 10-under or better.
Who will win LIV Golf Greenbrier?
Selected odds (correct Mon 12 August, 12.00):
Jon Rahm 11/2
Bryson DeChambeau 15/2
Tyrrell Hatton 8/1
Joaquin Niemann 9/1
Cameron Smith 12/1
Sergio Garcia 16/1
Louis Oosthuizen 18/1
Brooks Koepka 20/1
Dean Burmester 25/1
Richard Bland 35/1
How much will the LIV Golf Greenbrier winner receive?
Like all regular season events, LIV Golf Greenbrier has a $25 million purse, with $20 million assigned for the individual competition and $5 million for the team competition.
The individual winner in Florida is set to receive a $4 million share, ranging down to $50,000 for those finishing at the wrong end of the leaderboard. Despite just being a regular season event, the winner’s cheque is more than that being played for the PGA Tour’s first playoff event at the concurrently running FedEx St. Jude Championship.
Only the top three teams will receive prize money in each event. The winners will earn their team $3 million, with $1.5 million and $500k earned by the second and third-placed teams respectively.
Read our full guide to ‘How much every LIV player has been paid’.
LIV Golf Greenbrier Tee Times
US viewers can catch all the action on the CW App & LIV Golf+ App.
Shotgun Starts (all time EDT)
Friday, August 16: CW App & LIV Golf+ App, 13.15
Saturday, August 17: CW App & LIV Golf+ App, 13.15
Sunday, August 18: CW App & LIV Golf+ App, 13.05
UK viewers can watch the action for free on the LIV Golf YouTube channel.
Shotgun Starts (all time BST)
Friday, August 16: LIV Golf YouTube, 18.15
Saturday, August 17: LIV Golf YouTube, 18.15
Sunday, August 18: LIV Golf YouTube, 18.05
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Bryson DeChambeau celebrates after his historic round of 58 at Greenbrier in 2023
