LIV Golf Invitational Jeddah: Field and teams

Cameron Smith will make his second LIV Golf appearance in Chicago.

The Saudi-backed LIV Golf Series arrives in Jeddah for its seventh event and middle-east debut.

Once again, 48 players will compete across LIV Golf‘s latest three-round no-cut tournament, with a $25m dollar purse on offer at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club, a venue that will prove popular with the newly-crowned LIV Individual Champion Dustin Johnson, who has twice won the Saudi International here on the DP World Tour.

Graeme McDowell and Harold Varner III are also past winners of that event and will tee it up in the penultimate LIV event of the year.

Spain’s Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra arrives in Jeddah having lifted his first professional title at the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok. The former World No.2 amateur, who only joined the pro ranks when he signed for the rebel series, took home a cheque for $4.75m – $4m for his win and an extra $750k thanks to Fireballs GC winning the team format.

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For the first time since LIV’s London launch in June there will be no changes to the field for this week’s event. It is the final individual event of the season but no one can catch DJ who became LIV’s first individual champion thanks to his 16th-placed finish in Bangkok. It was the first time the American had finished outside the top-10 in his six starts but it was still enough to secure him the title and $18m bonus!

Branden Grace and Patrick Reed are the front-runners to take the runner-up spot, which pays $8m dollars, with $4m be awarded to the golfer in third place.

Bangkok saw the dominance of Johnson’s 4Aces GC team come to an end. DJ, Reed, Talor Gooch and Pat Perez had won four consecutive events heading to Thailand but couldn’t extend their run. Despite that, 4Aces still hold a significant lead in the standings and should head to the season-ending Team Championship at Trump Doral in Miami as the No.1 seeds and favourites to take the title and $16m bonus.

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Former World No.1’s Brooks Koepka, Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer will be among the other stars in action in Jeddah, along with Major champions Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson, McDowell, Charl Schwartzel and current Open champion Cam Smith.

The LIV Golf Invitational Jeddah gets underway on Friday, October 14, and will use a shotgun start across all three days with players heading out in groups of three. The opening round sees players draw together, with rounds two and three based on players’ positions on the leaderboard.

Alongside the individual event, which will see the winner walk away with $4m, the team event format will continue, with the 12 teams of four competing for a $5m dollar bonus fund, which is split between the top three.

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LIV’s first six tournaments have seen six different individual winners with victories for Schwartzel in London, Grace in Portland, Henrik Stenson in Bedminster, Johnson in Boston, Smith in Chicago, and Chaccara in Bangkok.

You can watch the Jeddah event here to see if that trend continues.

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Who is playing in the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok: Full field

Abraham Ancer – Mexico
Richard Bland – England
Laurie Canter – England
Paul Casey – England
Eugenio Chacarra – Spain
Bryson DeChambeau – USA
Sergio Garcia – Spain
Talor Gooch – USA
Branden Grace – South Africa
Sam Horsfield – England
Charles Howell III – USA
Dustin Johnson – USA
Matt Jones – Australia
Sadom Kaewkanjana – Thailand
Martin Kaymer – Germany
Phacara Khongwatmai – Japan
Sihwan Kim – USA
Brooks Koepka – USA
Chase Koepka – USA
Jason Kokrak – USA
Anirban Lahiri – India
Marc Leishman – Australia
Graeme McDowell – Northern Ireland
Phil Mickelson – USA
Jediah Morgan – Australia
Kevin Na – USA
Joaquin Niemann – Chile
Shaun Norris – South Africa
Louis Oosthuizen – South Africa
Wade Ormsby – Australia
Carlos Ortiz – Mexico
Pat Perez – USA
Turk Pettit – USA
James Piot – USA
Ian Poulter – England
Patrick Reed – USA
Charl Scwartzel – South Africa
Cameron Smith – Australia
Henrik Stenson – Sweden
Hudson Swafford – USA
Hideto Tanihara – Japan
Cameron Tringale – USA
Peter Uihlein – USA
Harold Varner III – USA
Scott Vincent – Zimbabwe
Lee Westwood – England
Bernd Wiesberger – Austria
Matt Wolff – USA

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What are the teams for the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok?

** Non-playing captain * Captain

4 Aces GC
Dustin Johnson*
Patrick Reed
Talor Gooch
Pat Perez

Cleeks GC
Martin Kaymer*
Graeme McDowell
Laurie Canter
Richard Bland

Crushers GC
Bryson DeChambeau*
Paul Casey
Charles Howell III
Anirban Lahiri

Fireballs GC
Sergio Garcia*
Abraham Ancer
Carlos Ortiz
Eugenio Chacarra

HyFlyers GC
Phil Mickelson*
Bernd Wiesberger
Matthew Wolff
Cameron Tringale

Iron Heads GC
Kevn Na*
Sadom Kaewkanjana
Phacara Khongwatmai
Sihwan Kim

Majesticks GC
Lee Westwood*
Ian Poulter
Henrik Stenson
Sam Horsfield

Niblicks GC
Bubba Watson**
Harold Varner III
Hudson Swafford
James Piot
Turk Pettit

Punch GC
Cameron Smith*
Marc Leishman
Matt Jones
Wade Ormsby

Smash GC
Brooks Koepka*
Jason Kokrak
Peter Uihlein
Chase Koepka

Stinger GC
Louis Oosthuizen*
Charl Schwartzel
Branden Grace
Shaun Norris

Torque GC
Jaoquin Niemann*
Scott Vincent
Hideto Tanihara
Jediah Morgan

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