The former world number 1 Dustin Johnson he watched the final putt of his season, pumped his right fist and waited for the party to begin. His team, 4Aces GC, won the team championship of LIV Golf Series (Arab Super League) at Trump National Doral for a blow to the Australian cameron smith and the Punch GCs. Including $18 million for winning the single season title, Johnson finished the circuit with earnings of $35,637,767.
“It’s amazing,” Johnson said. DJ (70), Patrick Reed (70), Talor Gooch (71) and Pat Pérez (70) added a total of 7 basses and 281 hits this Sunday and shared 16 million dollars.
Johnson earned 14% of the $255 million in prizes and bonuses earned by all players in the inaugural year of the LIV Golf Series, not including “fixed” starting points, which was substantial and, according to some reports , is about 200 million dollars for Phil Michaelsonand at least 100 million for players like Johnson, Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau.
Smith (65), Matt Jones (70), Wade Ormsby (73) and Marc Leishman (74) finished at 6 under, sharing $8 million. “I think LIV Golf will be bigger and better because of this event,” said the 2021 British champion at St Andrews.
The Smash GCs – Koepka (74), Peter Uihlein (75), Jason Kokrak (68) and Chase Koepka (75) – finished with 4 overs and shared $6 million.
Stinger GC, the team of Louis Oosthuizen (71), Charl Schwartzel (71), Hennie du Plessis (76) and Branden Grace (80), finished 10 over par for $4 million.
Next year, when LIV goes from eight to fourteen events, payouts will reach $405 million, provided by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. And if more players join LIV in the coming months, there will also be more transfer bonuses.
“I have a lot of golf next year and I really want to get back to the level I know I can play at,” said ‘Lefty’. The Grand Slams remain a mystery because much of the qualification process for them revolves around world ranking. Currently, LIV players do not earn points toward the official world golf ranking.
The 16 players who competed on Sunday finished their LIV year with more than $2 million in earnings, though most of them received more.
“We’ve had a lot of headwinds,” said LIV Series CEO and Commissioner, the ‘white shark’ Greg Norman, streaming the final round. “We’ve weathered all the storms and here we are. We have a great team of people and we have a great product. We keep going,” said the Australian.
Source: La Verdad
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