A 13th team. Wildcard players. A new scoring system. No, the LIV Golf League isn’t undergoing a complete rebuild as it kicks off its 2024 season this week at Mayakoba Resort in Mexico. But officials have done a little remodeling.
The most notable changes for its second full calendar campaign are the addition of European Ryder Cup teammates Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton. Rahm, the reigning Masters champion, is captain of the “expansion” Legion XIII team, with Hatton joining the squad along with hot-shot amateur-turned-pro Caleb Surratt and LIV Promotions grad Kieran Vincent.
A 13th team means 52 players in the no-cut 54-hole events. To help then with tournament logistics (keeping threesomes for all three rounds with 54 players), LIV Golf is also adding two spots in the shotgun-start format for golfers competing solely as individuals. Hudson Swafford will have one of them throughout the 2024 with the other “independent” player rotating after Laurie Canter uses it in the first two LIV events.
For the team competition, the low three scores for each team will continue to count in the first and second rounds, but for the third and final round, all four team members will now count to the team total.
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With additional players also comes a new prize money payout structure for individual finishes. There is still $20 million on the line overall, the winner will still earn a first-place prize money payout of $4 million and finishing 48th still earns you $120,000. Some of the inbetween spots have been slightly altered. Also those finishing 49th to 51st will get $60,000 and the remaining three finishers now earn $50,000 each.
Here’s the prize money payout break down for every golfer competing this week at El Camaleón Golf Course. Come back shortly after the end of the event and we’ll update this with names and individual paydays.
INDIVIDUAL
Win: $4,000,000
2: $2,250,000
3: $1,500,000
4: $1,000,000
5: $800,000
6: $700,000
7: $600,000
8: $525,000
9: $442,500
10: $405,000
11: $380,000
12: $360,000
13: $340,000
14: $320,000
15: $300,000
16: $285,000
17: $270,000
18: $260,000
19: $250,000
20: $240,000
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21: $230,000
22: $220,000
23: $210,000
24: $200,000
25: $195,000
26: $190,000
27: $185,000
28: $180,000
29: $175,000
30: $170,000
31: $165,000
32: $160,000
33: $155,000
34: $150,000
35: $148,000
36: $145,000
37: $143,000
38: $140,000
39: $138,000
40: $135,000
41: $133,000
42: $130,000
43: $128,000
44: $128,000
45: $125,000
46: $125,000
47: $123,000
48: $120,000
49: $60,000
50: $60,000
51: $60,000
52: $50,000
53: $50,000
54: $50,000
TEAM
Win: $3,000,000
2: $1,500,000
3: $500,000
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com