LIV Golf Riyadh
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Established | 2022 |
| Course | Riyadh Golf Club |
| Par | 70 |
| Length | 7,048 yards (6,445 m) |
| Tour | LIV Golf |
| Format | Individual and team stroke play |
| Prize fund | US$20,000,000 (individual) US$10,000,000 (team) |
| Month played | February |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 264 Elvis Smylie (2026) |
| To par | −24 as above |
| Current champion | |
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| Location map | |
  Riyadh GC Location in Saudi Arabia | |
LIV Golf Riyadh is a professional golf tournament on the LIV Golf League that is held under floodlights at the Riyadh Golf Club, near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The tournament debuted as LIV Golf Jeddah in October 2022 at part of the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational Series, and until 2024 was held at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in King Abdullah Economic City, north of Jeddah; the first two editions were co-sanctioned by the MENA Tour.
Format
The tournament is an individual stroke play event, with a team element. Four man teams are chosen, with a set number of their total scores counting for the team on each day. Each round commenced with a shotgun start, with the leaders beginning on the first hole for the final round, in order to finish on the eighteenth.[1]
Winners
Individual
| Year | Tour(s)[a] | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIV Golf Riyadh | ||||||
| 2026 | LIV | Elvis Smylie |
264 | −24 | 1 stroke |  Jon Rahm
|
| 2025 | LIV |  Adrian Meronk |
199 | −17 | 2 strokes |  Sebastián Muñoz Jon Rahm
|
| LIV Golf Jeddah | ||||||
| 2024 | LIV |  Joaquín Niemann |
193 | −17 | 4 strokes |  Louis Oosthuizen Charl Schwartzel
|
| 2023 | LIV, MENA |  Brooks Koepka (2) |
196 | −14 | Playoff | Talor Gooch
|
| LIV Golf Invitational Jeddah | ||||||
| 2022 | LIV, MENA | Brooks Koepka |
198 | −12 | Playoff | Peter Uihlein
|
Team
| Year | Winners[b] | Score (to par) |
Margin of victory |
Runners-up[b] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIV Golf Riyadh | ||||||
| 2026 | ||||||
| 2025 | Legion XIII GC[c] | −50 | 11 strokes | Ripper GC[d] RangeGoats GC[e] | ||
| LIV Golf Jeddah | ||||||
| 2024 | Crushers GC[f] | −38 | 4 strokes | Stinger GC[g] | ||
| 2023 | Fireballs GC[h] | −34 | 3 strokes | RangeGoats GC[i] | ||
| LIV Golf Invitational Jeddah | ||||||
| 2022 | Smash GC[j] | −33 | 6 strokes | Fireballs GC[h] | ||
Notes
- ^ LIV − LIV Golf League; MENA − MENA Tour.
- ^ a b (c) – Team captain
- ^ Tyrrell Hatton, Tom McKibbin, Jon Rahm (c) and Caleb Surratt
- ^ Lucas Herbert, Matt Jones, Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith (c).
- ^ Ben Campbell, Peter Uihlein, Bubba Watson (c) and Matthew Wolff
- ^ Paul Casey, Bryson DeChambeau (c), Charles Howell III and Anirban Lahiri
- ^ Dean Burmester, Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel.
- ^ a b Abraham Ancer, Eugenio Chacarra, Sergio García (c) and Carlos Ortiz
- ^ Talor Gooch, Thomas Pieters, Harold Varner III and Bubba Watson (c)
- ^ Brooks Koepka (c), Chase Koepka, Jason Kokrak and Peter Uihlein
References
- ^ Scrivener, Peter (8 June 2022). "LIV Golf - all you need to know about Saudi-funded series". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 June 2022.