LIV Golf releases 2024 schedule. Here are 5 big takeaways and surprises

Good issues come to those that wait. Answers, evidently, come to those that don’t.

On Wednesday morning, Brooks Koepka’s weekend gripes had been rewarded by his employer, LIV Golf, who introduced the league’s 2024 schedule to the world. Koepka had taken to Instagram within the days previous the discharge to voice his frustration with the league’s radio silence in regards to the forthcoming schedule, twice commenting on posts on the official LIV Golf Instagram web page to foyer for the schedule’s launch.

The model of the ’24 LIV schedule launched on Wednesday represents an incomplete image of the longer term for the league — as we’ll cowl beneath — however most of the top-line particulars are locked in. There will as soon as once more be 14 occasions, together with a staff and particular person championship, which can as soon as once more be competed at numerous venues each within the United States and around the globe, together with one occasion within the league’s dwelling nation, Saudi Arabia.

Still, the winds of the third season for the upstart league have introduced their very own set of adjustments, together with a handful of latest host cities, venues and updates. So, what do it is advisable know? Let’s have a look beneath.

LIV Golf 2024 schedule

2/2-4: LIV Mayakoba — El Cameleon Country Club
2/8-10: LIV Las Vegas — Las Vegas Country Club
3/1-3: LIV Saudi Arabia — TBD
3/8-10: LIV Hong Kong — Hong Kong Golf Club
4/5-7: LIV “USA” — Location and course TBD
4/26-28: LIV Adelaide — The Grange Golf Club
5/3-5: LIV Singapore — The Serapong Golf Club
6/7-9: LIV Houston — The Golf Club of Houston
6/21-23: LIV Nashville — The Grove Golf Club
7/12-14: LIV Andalucia — Real Club Valderrama
7/25-28: LIV UK: Staffordshire — JCB Golf and Country Club
8/16-19: LIV Greenbrier — The Old White Course on the Greenbrier
Date, Course and Location TBD: LIV Golf Individual Championships
Date, Course and Location TBD: LIV Golf Team Championships.

5 big LIV 2024 schedule takeaways

1. Brooks Koepka is rewarded

Koepka positioned himself among the many solely LIV inner critics ever (an admittedly low bar) when he dove into the Instagram feedback part over the weekend to twice bemoan the state of the league’s schedule. The calendar announcement arrived simply three days later, and would appear to alleviate Koepka of any main considerations heading ahead. Still, the drama factors to one of many drawbacks of becoming a member of the upstart tour: It’s exhausting to search out schedule consistency as a disruptor.

The rhythms of Tour life — visiting the identical cities, renting the homes, and many others. — are not practically as constant on LIV, which could not sound like a lot, however is definitely some extent price noting for these used the touring custom of the PGA Tour.

2. Questions nonetheless loom

What’s occurring the week earlier than the Masters, when LIV has an occasion at a still-unannounced course in a still-unannounced metropolis within the U.S.? That’s an enormous query the league will discover itself rapidly beneath strain to reply, significantly as many gamers across the league look to finalize their plans for Augusta.

Other questions on long-term schedule targets — Is the plan to determine common locations or to cycle by way of a rotating listing of underserved U.S. golf cities? What is the league’s hope for match hosts? — stay unanswered. The undercurrent of Koepka’s complaints present these questions aren’t simply being requested by the golf public.

3. Could this be the top of the Trump Golf partnership?

For the primary time within the league’s historical past, a schedule launch has been made with out a tie to Trump Golf. Reports circled late this year that LIV was seeking to distance itself from the previous President in an effort to keep away from politicizing its occasions, and the primary iteration of the schedule doesn’t embrace any of the everyday Trump match areas (Doral, Bedminster, D.C.) which have hosted LIV occasions up to now.

Of course, there are nonetheless three unannounced, doubtless U.S.-based slots on the schedule, which might imply the league is solely ready to announce its return to these programs. But it might additionally imply that the league has determined to maneuver on from these venues, a alternative that may doubtless imply dropping out on millions in site fees for the previous President.

4. Host cities stay in flux

With three occasions nonetheless unnamed, there isn’t a introduced return to Chicago, New York, Portland, Boston, London or Bangkok — 5 of the anchor cities over LIV’s first two years of match play. Other venues, like Tulsa, Orlando and Tucson, are not included within the new schedule after less-than-stellar debuts.

In truth, solely 5 occasions — Mayakoba, Adelaide, Singapore, Andalucia and Greenbrier — are returning to their 2023 LIV houses.

In their place, LIV will head to new cities like Staffordshire, England — which is London and Manchester — Las Vegas, Houston and Nashville for its occasions in 2024. Those adjustments characterize the continuation of a theme for LIV: in search of out attention-grabbing cities that stay uninhabited by the PGA Tour. Will they characterize a major progress level? We’ll discover out.

5. Going again to Saudi, Saudi

We don’t know the place LIV will play, but it surely was no shock to see the league announce it’s heading again dwelling to Saudi Arabia within the first week of March.

After much schedule jostling last year — Saudi was imagined to host the staff championships, which had been later moved to Miami — it appears the league’s Saudi backers have made peace with an early-season bid on the schedule. This yr’s occasion timeline overlaps with the normal taking part in of the Saudi International, an effort that ought to appease the league’s efforts at a lighter journey load on its gamers in ’24.

The change may even keep away from seeing one of many key occasions of the LIV season broadcast by way of tape delay within the United States on the CW, some extent that’s doubtless of excessive significance to the league’s executives.

As for a way the league’s monetary backers really feel about their dwelling match being relegated to the early season swing? Well, that’s a dialog for an additional day.

James Colgan

Golf.com Editor

James Colgan is a information and options editor at GOLF, writing tales for the web site and journal. He manages the Hot Mic, GOLF’s media vertical, and makes use of his on-camera expertise throughout the model’s platforms. Prior to becoming a member of GOLF, James graduated from Syracuse University, throughout which period he was a caddie scholarship recipient (and astute looper) on Long Island, the place he’s from. He might be reached at james.colgan@golf.com.