LIV Golf has announced the first four dates of its 2025 program, and there is a certain international atmosphere at the start of the season. The LIV 2025 season will begin with dates in Saudi Arabia, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore.
LIV will debut in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, with its 2025 kickoff tournament on February 6-8 at the Riyadh Golf Club. A week later, from February 14-16, LIV will return to Adelaide, Australia at the Grange Golf Club, site of LIV’s most popular and loudest event to date, the 2024 Australian leg. weeks later, from March 7 to 9, LIV will tee off at the Hong Kong Golf Club. A week later, LIV will travel to Singapore’s Sentosa Golf Club for a tournament from March 14-16. The rest of the LIV program, including national events, will be announced at a later date.
The 2025 Masters will take place from April 10 to 13; With many of its players qualifying through prior victories, LIV Golf has structured its schedule to allow players to compete in all majors.
The structure and timing of the announcement is another indicator of LIV’s intention to be a much more international tour than the largely U.S.-based PGA Tour. As golf grows in popularity around the world, particularly in Asia and the Middle East, it is a strategy designed to meet budding golf enthusiasts where they are, rather than waiting of them that they tune in and connect to events happening on the other side of the world. .
LIV’s schedule will be demanding for players, especially those based in the United States, given all the time zone changes and significant travel involved. That would be the cost of the substantial salaries LIV players received, regardless of promises or plans to play less golf and spend more time with family. LIV clearly presents the image of an organization planning for a long-term and international future.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, LIV Golf backers and the PGA Tour announced a merger/strategic alignment 15 months ago, but since then there has been no indication of a true unification being imminent. For now, the two sides are moving forward on different paths and timetables.
Several LIV players remain competitive and compelling even if they are not as visible as they were on the PGA Tour. Bryson DeChambeau is the reigning US Open champion, Jon Rahm was chasing Olympic gold until the final holes, and Brooks Koepka has a T2 and a win at majors since moving to LIV . Yet, as popular as LIV players have been, and as successful as they have been against their PGA Tour opponents, it is now almost certain that the only time they will cross paths as a group with the PGA Tour will be in 2025 .be in all four majors.
