The LIV Golf Invitational Series has been gaining momentum since the first event at London’s Centurion Club.
In that tournament, the field contained a mixture of several rookies, some seasoned pros whose best years were possibly behind them and just a couple of genuinely huge stars. While that opening event only took place last month, the fields are growing increasingly impressive, with LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman stating: “What we’re doing is very appealing to the world’s best players”. With the third of the eight-tournament inaugural season getting under way at Bedminster, New Jersey next week, that certainly appears to be the case.
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When the Series got under way last month, two names stood out in its mixed bag of a field – Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson. Two-time Major winner and former World No.1 Johnson is one of the game’s biggest names, and his inclusion too many by surprise. Meanwhile, although Mickelson is unlikely to recreate the heights of his earlier years, when he won five of his six career Majors in a nine-year period between 2004 and 2013, it’s still only just more than a year since he won the most recent of them, the 2021 PGA Championship. Of that first intake an honorary mention also goes to Louis Oosthuizen, who was inside the world’s top 10 until the end of last year.
Since then, more high-profile players have signed up. Former World No.6 Patrick Reed, who won The Masters in 2018, played in the second tournament at Pumpkin Ridge, as did 2020 US Open Champion Bryson DeChambeau, who was World No.4 as recently as May last year. Another big signing teeing it up in Portland, Oregon was former World No.11 Abraham Ancer. However, perhaps the biggest shock came when another former World No.1, Brooks Koepka, signed up too. The American has four Majors to his name and is still aged just 32, suggesting he’s in the prime of his career. Adding to that impressive clutch of players was a rising star of the game, 23-year-old Matthew Wolff.
Next week’s tournament promises to be the strongest of the…
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