NUMBERS CRUNCHING: A LOOK AT LIV GOLF'S CLASS OF 2023
Feb 24, 2023 - 4:32 PMWritten by: LIV GOLF LEAGUE
The LIV Golf League makes its full-season debut Friday at LIV Golf Mayakoba. Rosters will be stabilized for the entire year (except for injury replacements). Here's a look at the 48 regular players making up the 12 team rosters in 2023.
NEW MEMBERS
Dean Burmester Danny Lee Sebastian Munoz Mito Pereira Thomas Pieters Brendan Steele
AGES
Players in their 20s – 11 Players in their 30s – 24 Players in their 40s – 11 Players in their 50s – 2
Youngest player: David Puig, 21
Oldest player: Phil Mickelson, 52
AVERAGE AGE OF EACH TEAM
| Team | Average Age |
|---|---|
| Torque GC | 25.50 |
| Smash GC | 30.25 |
| Fireballs GC | 31.75 |
| Ripper GC | 33.25 |
| Iron Heads GC | 33.75 |
| RangeGoats GC | 34.50 |
| Stinger GC | 36.25 |
| 4Aces GC | 37.25 |
| HyFlyers GC | 37.50 |
| Crushers GC | 38.00 |
| Cleeks GC | 42.00 |
| Majesticks GC | 42.00 |
COUNTRIES
TEAMS WITH PLAYERS FROM SAME COUNTRY
4Aces GC – United States HyFlyers GC – United States Ripper GC – Australia Smash – United States Stinger GC – South Africa
TEAM WITH PLAYERS FROM FOUR DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Cleeks GC – Austria (Bernd Wiesberger), England (Richard Bland), Germany (Martin Kaymer), Northern Ireland (Graeme McDowell)
COUNTRIES REPRESENTED
| Country | No. of Players |
|---|---|
| USA | 19 |
| England | 5 |
| Australia | 4 |
| South Africa | 4 |
| Spain | 3 |
| Chile | 2 |
| Mexico | 2 |
| Austria | 1 |
| Belgium | 1 |
| Colombia | 1 |
| Germany | 1 |
| India | 1 |
| New Zealand | 1 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 |
| Sweden | 1 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 |
UNIVERSITIES
21 different U.S. universities are represented by 30 players
Alabama-Birmingham – Graeme McDowell Arizona State – Paul Casey, Matt Jones, Phil Mickelson, Pat Perez, David Puig Augusta State – Patrick Reed California-Riverside – Brendan Steele Coastal Carolina – Dustin Johnson East Carolina – Harold Varner III Florida – Sam Horsfield Florida State – Brooks Koepka Georgia – Bubba Watson Georgia Tech – Cameron Tringale Illinois – Thomas Peters Michigan State –James Piot North Texas – Sebastian Munoz, Carlos Ortiz Oklahoma – Abraham Ancer Oklahoma State – Eugenio Chacarra, Charles Howell III, Talor Gooch, Peter Uihlein, Matthew Wolff SMU – Bryson DeChambeau South Florida – Chase Koepka Stanford – Sihwan Kim Texas Tech – Mito Pereira Virginia Tech – Scott Vincent Xavier – Jason Kokrak
WINS
21 LIV Golf players have 10 or more career worldwide wins
Phil Mickelson (57), Lee Westwood (44), Sergio Garcia (36), Dustin Johnson (29), Martin Kaymer (23), Henrik Stenson (22), Paul Casey (21), Anirban Lahiri (18), Ian Poulter (17), Brooks Koepka (16), Graeme McDowell (16), Charl Schwartzel (16), Branden Grace (15), Louis Oosthuizen (14), Bubba Watson (14), Marc Leishman (13), Bernd Wiesberger (12), Jason Kokrak (11), DeChambeau (10), Mito Pereira (10), Cameron Smith (10).
Majors won
MASTERS 2004 – Mickelson 2006 – Mickelson 2010 – Mickelson 2011 – Schwartzel 2012 – Watson 2014 – Watson 2017 – Garcia 2018 – Reed 2020 – Johnson
PGA CHAMPIONSHIP 2005 – Mickelson 2010 – Kaymer 2018 – B. Koepka 2019 – B. Koepka 2021 – Mickelson
U.S. OPEN 2010 – McDowell 2014 – Kaymer 2016 – Johnson 2017 – B. Koepka 2018 – B. Koepka 2020 – DeChambeau
THE OPEN 2010 – Oosthuizen 2013 – Mickelson 2016 – Stenson 2022 – Smith
OLYMPIANS
18 LIV Golf players have competed in the Olympics since golf's return to the competition program in 2016
Abraham Ancer, Mexico Paul Casey, United Kingdom Sergio Garcia, Spain Martin Kaymer, Germany Anirban Lahiri, India Danny Lee, New Zealand Marc Leishman, Australia Sebastian Munoz, Colombia Joaquin Niemann, Chile Carlos Ortiz, Mexico Mito Pereira, Chile Thomas Pieters, Belgium Patrick Reed, USA Camerson Smith, Australia Henrik Stenson, Sweden (silver medal, 2016) Scott Vincent, Zimbabwe Bubba Watson, USA Bernd Wiesberger, Austria