Millions, stars and controversy: the keys to the new Saudi Golf League

• Revolution The attempt to sign Tiger Woods from Saudi LIV Golf: "The offer was amazing, huge"

A

-funded league

,

, will finally see the light of day after much controversy.

The consequences for the players who are members of the

who will take part in this initiative are unknown at this time, but a new and complicated chapter for golf is foreseen in the coming weeks.

For now we wanted to bring the

of this new project closer to the general public:

rain of millions

There will be

limited to

.

Each regular tournament will have a

prize pool to go around ($20 million for individual qualifying and five million for team qualifying).

The final, which will be the eighth tournament, will raise his purse to 50 million.

The winner of each regular event will walk away with four million and $120,000 will be the consolation for the

.

In the final, the figures will be exactly double.

In all this rain of millions, the

that are paid to the stars for their long-distance commitment to LIV golf are not counted.

It has been leaked that

could earn a figure close to

and

around

.

Calendar

June 9-11: Centurion Golf Club - London, England

July 1-3: Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club - Portland, USA

July 29-31: Trump National Golf Club Bedminster - New Jersey, USA

September 2-4: The International - Boston, USA

September 16-18: Rich Harvest Farms - Chicago, USA

October 7-9: Stonehill Golf Club - Bangkok, Thailand

Oct 14-16: Royal Greens Golf Club - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

October 27-30: Team Tournament, Trump National Doral, Miami, USA

Format

The tournaments will be played over

(54 holes), when the normal format of the PGA and European Tour is to do it over

(72 holes) and with a cut after the second day that allows only the top 60 to compete and collect.

In the LIV there will also

.

Players will compete

format

.

In the team competition, the

will be distributed in twelve teams of

, each team will have a captain not yet confirmed, but it is assumed that they will be the registered players with the most weight.

Each captain will choose the three members of his own team through a kind of

that will take place the same week of the tournament.

Each team will wear its own uniform, logo and image, thus each player renouncing their

and

that normally sponsor them during this week.

There will be

, the individual will be the player who makes the fewest shots after 54 holes and for the team classification the

will be added during the first two days (therefore two will be discarded), while on the last day the three best results of each combination will count (eliminating only the worst card).

TV

At the moment this first tournament will be offered by

through the official website

,

.

The signal will be offered free of charge to any television operator that might be interested.

The LIV golf will have a production of the highest quality and in recent days some important American journalists have been known who have signed on to give voice and coverage to the project.

Spanish people

At the moment and for this first tournament

and the amateur

have confirmed .

García is expected to be one of the captains and, although those around him have not wanted to make any statements about it, he is one of the players with the most weight within the new structure.

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