FIRST LOOK: LIV GOLF PROMOTIONS AT ABU DHABI GOLF CLUB

ABOUT THE TOURNAMENT

When: December 8-10, 2023

Where: Abu Dhabi Golf Club, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Competition: 72 holes, stroke play, field and scores reset after first two rounds. Click here for details on format.

Field: 73 players (60 in Rd. 1: 13 exempt into Rd. 2)

Purse: $1.5 million

Top Individual Prizes: 1st place - $200,000; 2nd place - $150,000; 3rd place - $100,000

Local tee time: Rd. 1 - 8 a.m.; Rd. 2 - 9 a.m.; Rd. 3 - 7:15 a.m. shotgun start; Rd. 4 - Noon (estimate)

WHAT’S AT STAKE

Top 3 finishers earn promotion to the 2024 LIV Golf League and will be drafted into one of the LIV Golf teams next season.

Players finishing 4th through 10th will receive full exemption for all 2024 events on The International Series, a set of elevated tournaments supported by LIV Golf on the Asian Tour.

Click here for more details

QUOTEBOARD

Greg Norman, LIV Golf Commissioner and CEO:

Rahul Singh, Head of The International Series

FIELD BREAKDOWN

The LIV Golf Promotions field consists of:

• 1 Major champion

• 6 PGA Tour winners

• 10 DP World Tour winners

• 25+ Asian Tour winners

• 6 Olympians

• 2 Ryder Cup players

• 3 NCAA Division 1 champions

• 1 U.S. Amateur champion

• 4 Current Amateurs

11 players in the field have won at least 10 professional events

• American Jason Dufner has the most wins on the PGA Tour with 5, including the 2013 PGA Championship

• Two Spanish veterans, Alvaro Quiros and Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño, have the most wins on the DP World Tour with 7 each

• India’s Gaganjeet Bhullar has the most Asian Tour career wins with 11

12 Promotions entrants have played at least one career round in LIV Golf:

• Laurie Canter

• Sadom Kaewkanjana

• Phachara Khongwatmai

• Sihwan Kim

• Jinichiro Kozuma

• Jediah Morgan

• Wade Ormsby

• Turk Pettit

• James Piot

• Travis Smyth

• Kieran Vincent

• Kevin Yuan

6 players have represented their countries in the Olympics

ABOUT THE COURSE

ABU DHABI GOLF CLUB
National Course
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Par 72
7,632 yards

• Site of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship for 16 consecutive years from 2006-21

• Among the tournament winners are current LIV Golf League members Martin Kaymer (winner in 2008, 2010, 2011), Paul Casey (winner in 2007, 2009) and Lee Westwood (winner in 2020). Westwood’s victory gave him professional wins in four different decades

• Many other LIV Golf League members have competed at Abu Dhabi, including major winners Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka and Sergio Garcia

• Hosted the 2023 Eisenhower Trophy, the biennial World Amateur Team Championship organized by the International Golf Federation

• Hosted the inaugural Hero Cup in 2023, with a team of Great Britain and Ireland professional golfers competing against a team representing Continental Europe

• Other tournaments hosted in recent years include the UAE Presidents Cup, GCC Golf Championship and PIF Saudi International qualifier

• Course was designed in 1998 by Peter Harradine, former president of the European Institute of Golf Course Architects and European Society of Golf Course Architects

• Course is set against a stunning desert landscape, with a unique layout with risk/reward opportunities, and features a variety of challenges, from water hazards to bunkers to doglegs and tricky greens

• Clubhouse is built in the shape of a falcon with its wings outstretched.

• "This golf course is an incredible layout. It's a very good test of golf. The fairways are tight, and the greens are pure." – LIV Golf's Bryson DeChambeau, Captain of Crushers GC

TUGR RANKINGS

The Universal Golf Rankings (TUGR) were used as part of the eligibility criteria. Here are the nine players in the field ranked inside the TURG’s top 300.

• 191 – Laurie Canter, England

• 197 – Miguel Tabuena, Philippines

• 209 – Zach Bauchou, USA

• 211 – Richard T. Lee, Canada

• 213 – Kyungnam Kang, Korea

• 215 – Phachara Khongwatmai, Thailand

• 226 – Jeongwoo Ham, Korea

• 245 – Junghwan Lee, Korea

• 254 – Travis Smyth, Australia

Ratings as of Dec. 4. Click here for all TUGR rankings

WEATHER

Forecast from weather.com

HOW TO WATCH

Announcers: Jerry Foltz, Dom Boulet, Su-Ann Heng, Anthony Kang

The tournament will be available globally live and on-demand on LIV Golf Plus, the LIV Golf YouTube Channel and broadcast partners around the world.

• Friday & Saturday: Live coverage from 12 p.m.-4 p.m. local (3 a.m.-7 a.m. ET)

• Sunday: Live coverage from 12:30 p.m.- 5 p.m. local (3:30 a.m.-8 a.m. ET)

Broadcast in over 180 international territories live and on-demand, free of charge, via LIV Golf Plus. Available for download on iOS, Android, FireTV, and on LIVGolfPlus.com. Also airing on more than a dozen international broadcast partners and counting.