The ever-controversial LIV Golf Series returns this week, as it heads to Chicago for its fifth event of the season at Rich Harvest Farms. After a week off with many of its stars competing at the BMW PGA Championship, the Saudi-funded circuit is once again back on the road and staying on American soil.
As there is at every event, there is a lucrative prize pot for those competing with £17 million on offer in the singles event and £4.3 million at stake in the team aspect of the competition. Once again, the man coming out on top in Chicago will rake in £3.4 million in winnings.
Second place will then receive £1.8 million, whilst third in the singles side of the event will come away with a cool £1.3 million. The man finishing dead last will still end their week with a tidy £102,000.
In the team event, there will be prizes for the top three teams with the money being split evenly between the four players. The top side in Chicago will win a bonus of £2.6 million between them, whilst second will take £1.3 million and third £427,000.
LIV new boys Cameron Smith, Cameron Tringale, Joaquin Niemann, Harold Varner III, Marc Leishman, and Anirban Lahiri will all be making their second appearance on the breakaway circuit after debuting in Boston, but there is one change to the field that heads out this week.
In the season standings, Dustin Johnson's dramatic play-off victory in Boston means he is the man leading the way four events in, 17 points ahead of second place Branden Grace. Johnson is also dominating in the team side of the series, having won three straight events with his teammates Patrick Reed, Pat Perez and Talor Gooch.
The full money list can be seen below:
Individual event:
1st: £3.4 million
2nd: £1.8 million
3rd: £1.3 million
4th: £897,000
5th: £832,000
6th: £683,000
7th: £576,000
8th: £534,000
9th: £495,000
10th: £478,000
11th: £461,000
12th £384,000
13th: £307,000
14th: £231,000
15th: £213,000
16th: £205,000
17th: £198,000
18th: £193,000
19th: £188,000
20th: £171,000
21st: £154,000
22nd: £147,000
23rd: £145,000
24th: £143,000
25th: £142,000
26th: £140,000
27th: £138,000
28th: £137,000
29th: £135,000
30th: £133,000
31st: £131,000
32nd: £130,000
33rd: £128,000
34th: £126,000
35th: £125,000
36th: £123,000
37th: £121,000
38th: £120,000
39th: £118,000
40th: £116,000
41st: £114,000
42nd: £113,000
43rd: £111,000
44th: £109,000
45th: £108,000
46th: £106,000
47th: £104,000
48th: £102,000
Team event:
1st: £2.6 million
2nd: £1.3 million
3rd: £427,000
The full field competing in Boston can be seen below:
- 4 Aces GC - Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Pat Perez, Talor Gooch
- Hy Flyers GC - Phil Mickelson, Bernd Wiesberger, Matthew Wolff, Cameron Tringale
- Punch GC - Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Matt Jones, Wade Ormsby,
- Cleeks GC - Martin Kaymer, Graeme McDowell, Laurie Canter, Richard Bland
- Iron Heads GC - Kevin Na, Sadom Kaewkanjana, Phachara Khongwatmai, Sihwan Kim
- Smash GC - Brooks Koepka, Jason Kokrak, Peter Uihlein, Chase Koepka
- Crushers GC - Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey, Charles Howell III, Anirban Lahiri,
- Majesticks GC - Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson, Sam Horsfield
- Stinger GC - Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Branden Grace, Shaun Norris
- Fireballs GC - Sergio Garcia, Abraham Ancer, Carlos Ortiz, Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra
- Niblicks GC - Bubba Watson (non-playing captain), Harold Varner III, Hudson Swafford, James Piot, Turk Pettit
- Torque GC - Joaquin Niemann, Scott Vincent, David Puig, Jediah Morgan
