First Look: LIV Golf Dallas Team Championship

ABOUT THE TOURNAMENT

When: September 20-22, 2024

Where: Maridoe Golf Club, Carrollton, Texas

Competition: Team match play in Quarterfinals and Semifinals; Stroke play Finals in three tiers

Field: 13 4-player teams (52 players total)

Purse: $50 million US

Winning Team’s Share: $14 million US

Local Tee Times: Shotgun Start for Quarterfinals & Semifinals at 11:15 a.m. CDT; Finals at 11:05 a.m. CDT

How It Works: Click here for information on the format for the three days of competition, as well as team seeds and a breakdown of the prize money.

KEY STORYLINES

LIV Golf makes its first visit to Dallas for the season-ending Team Championship at Maridoe Golf Club

Dallas-area resident Bryson DeChambeau and his top-seeded Crushers GC seek to defend their 2023 Team Championship title

Dallas-area resident DeChambeau is playing competitively for the first time in front of his home fans since winning the U.S. Open at Pinehurst in June

Jon Rahm, winner of the Individual Championship last week in Chicago, leads his expansion team Legion XIII in their first Team Championship appearance

Crushers GC, Legion XIII and Cameron Smith’s Ripper GC are the top three seeds and have byes in the Quarterfinals

Five-time LIV Golf winner Brooks Koepka, captain of No. 4 seed Smash GC, will get the first pick of opponents in the Quarterfinals

All 13 teams will compete in Sunday’s Finals, with the four Semifinal winners competing for the Team Championship

The Dallas Team Championship marks the end of LIV Golf’s second full League season and third overall, with the first four tournaments in 2025 already announced

PREVIOUS TEAM CHAMPIONS

2022: 4Aces GC (Captain Dustin Johnson, Talor Gooch, Pat Perez, Patrick Reed)

2023: Crushers GC (Captain Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey, Charles Howell III, Anirban Lahiri)

ABOUT THE COURSE

MARIDOE GOLF CLUB
Carrollton, Texas

Par: 72
Yardage: 7,438

• Located on the site of the former Columbian Country Club, the property was bought in 2014 by Albert Huddleston, whose goal is to provide the world’s best players a chance to compete on a championship-quality course

• The course was remodeled in 2017 by architect Steve Smyers, the visionary behind the designs of Isleworth and Old Memorial

• The course hosted the 2021 USGA Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship and several other significant tournaments at the amateur and collegiate levels

• Hole No. 2, at 655 yards, is the second-longest hole played this season

• Hole No. 8, at 115 yards, is the third-shortest hole played this season

• The 337-yard par-4 sixth should be drivable each day

• Tees, fairways and greens are Bermudagrass, with a projected green speed of 12

MARIDOE’S UNIQUE ‘MOVABLE’ COURSE

Dallas-area resident Bryson DeChambeau, captain of the defending team champions Crushers GC, has his own unique style. It’s a trait he has in common with Maridoe Golf Club, site of the Dallas Team Championship.

“I view it as a fantastic links-style movable golf course here in Dallas that is unique to its own,” DeChambeau said. “I've never seen a golf course that looks the way that Maridoe does. There are other golf courses around here that are links style, but this one tops it for sure.”

DeChambeau referenced the “rolling, moving greens, sloping greens” as part of the Maridoe appeal, and said that players will need to be “incredibly precise” to play well. He calls Maridoe “probably the toughest course” in Dallas.

“You're never going to play the golf course the same way every single day,” DeChambeau said. “It's a unique golf course every day you come out here. That's what makes this golf course such a tough test of golf is that you can hit a really great shot and the wind change and it comes up short and it rolls into a completely different area. Much like Pinehurst, you have to control your golf ball so well. … It's an awesome test of golf, and you've got to be on your game.”

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