The final date of the super league year brings a new format and the biggest prize in golf history. The Chilean will be captain of the Torque team and will start his trip this Friday.
The first year of LIV Golf is coming to an end. The season farewell will take place at Trump National Doral in Miami and will feature all the spectacularity the super league has shown across seven dates but gone one step further. For this weekend, there will be high-profile music shows (Snoop Dog and Travis Scott), multi-million dollar prizes ($16 million for the champion team only) and a new format that will revolve around the team competition.
And in the middle of all that glamor will be Joaquín Niemann. The Chilean once again has a prominent role at LIV and was even present at the launch of the date with Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka, Cameron Smith and Bubba Watson among others. This because the Chilean will captain the Torque team for this event which has the largest prize pool in the world of golf.
In total there will be 50 million dollars to distribute, of which 16 will go to the champion team . Each of the players celebrating on Sunday will take home four million dollars straight, almost double what they could get had they conquered the Augusta Masters. The rest of the monetary bag will be divided among the other 11 remaining teams.
On the other hand, the musical numbers that are always present at LIV, this time will go even further. The tournament didn’t just have rapper “Nelly” on Saturday the 29th as part of on-the-golf activities, but instead decided to hold a series of concerts at Miami’s Fontainebleau to celebrate Halloween. On Friday there will be Snoop Dog and on Saturday Travis Scott, who is one of the closing acts of the Primavera Sound Festival to be held in Santiago on November 12 and 13.
A completely different format
If during the first seven dates of the LIV the format was usual in any golf tournament, with the exception of the fact that there was no court and that only 54 holes were played, this time the dynamic will be completely different.
During the weekend only team matches will be played , working in the logic of direct elimination. The quarter-finals will be played on Friday, the semi-finals on Saturday and the LIV grand final on Sunday.
During the first day of competition, the teams located between 5th and 12th place in the general table will play , which accumulated over the seven dates of the tournament. There, the teams with the best position could decide which team to face on Friday under a system that will consist of two one-on-one matches and one four-way match, allowing all four players from each team to see the action. Whoever celebrates at the end of the day will be the one who gets two wins in the day.
The four winning teams will join the top four ranked teams of the year (those who passed the quarter-finals bye) to play the semi-finals, repeating the format developed on Friday.
Torque GC, a side where Niemann is captain, finished in seventh place overall, so they decided to play the quarter-final round against Cleeks, managed by two-time Major winner Martin Kaymer. The Chilean will appear in court this Friday at 11:15 a.m. (national time) as the big face of a team also made up of Jediah Morgan, Scott Vincent and recent DP World Tour winner Adrián Otaegui.
In the event that the man from Talagan and his team manage to reach the grand final on Sunday, there they will play again under the standard shots format, defining as champion the team that adds the fewest points at the end of the day.
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