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LIV Golf Riyadh Final Payouts, Prize Money, Winnings From Season Debut in Saudi Arabia

Newcomer Elvis Smylie won in his debut by a shot over reigning season champion Jon Rahm.
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Elvis Smylie, pictured at the 2025 PGA Championship, won the 2026 LIV Golf opener in Saudi Arabia.
Elvis Smylie, pictured at the 2025 PGA Championship, won the 2026 LIV Golf opener in Saudi Arabia. | Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images

LIV Golf returned this week with its season-opening event under the lights at Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. It offered a $30 million total purse, with $4 million to the individual winner and $10 million set aside for the team competition.

Elvis Smylie is one of the newcomers this season and he wasted no time in making his introduction, winning by a shot over 2025 season champion Jon Rahm in the desert. He also made some history as the first LIV player to earn a winner's world ranking points allotment, as a ruling from the Official World Golf Ranking earlier this week said points will be awarded to the top-10 finishers at each LIV event.

The team-event prize boost to $10 million is double the money from 2025 events, and for the first time all 13 teams will receive cash prizes. The winner this week is Smylie's Ripper GC, the all-Australian team captained by Cam Smith.

Here are the payouts for LIV Golf Riyadh.

2026 LIV Golf Riyadh Final Payouts

WIN: Elvis Smylie, 24 under: $4 million

2. Jon Rahm, 23 under: $2.25 million

3. Peter Uihlein, 21 under: $1.5 million

T4. Abraham Ancer, Thomas Pieters, David Puig; 20 under: $833,333

7. Thomas Detry, 19 under: $600,000

8. Sebastian Munoz, 18 under: $525,000

T9. Lucas Herbert, Branden Grace, Ben An; 17 under: $415,000

12. Talor Gooch, 16 under: $360,000

T13. Carlos Ortiz, Richard T. Lee, Scott Vincent, Cam Smith; 15 under: $311,250

T17. Tom McKibbin, Paul Casey, Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Yosuke Asaji; 14 under: $250,000

T22. Bjorn Hellgren, Marc Leishman, Jason Kokrak, Anthony Kim, Joaquin Niemann; 13 under: $203,000

T27. Josele Ballester, Graeme McDowell, Adrian Meronk; 12 under: $180,000

T30. Younghan Song, Charl Schwartzel, Anirban Lahiri, Sergio Garcia, Louis Oosthuizen, Harold Varner III, Ben Campbell, 11 under: $156,071

T37. Laurie Canter, Luis Masaveu; 10 under: $141,250

T39. Charles Howell III, Caleb Surratt; 9 under: $136,250

T41. Cameron Tringale, Minkyu Kim, Michael La Sasso, Ben Schmidt, Ian Poulter, Danny Lee; 8 under: $128,750

47. Tyrrell Hatton, 7 under: $50,000

T48. Bubba Watson, Miguel Tabuena, Sam Horsfield; 6 under: $50,000

T51. Matthew Wolff, Martin Kaymer, Dean Burmester; 5 under: $50,000

54. Victor Perez, 4 under: $50,000

55. Richard Bland, 3 under: $50,000

56. Ollie Schneiderjans, 2 under: $50,000

57. Brendan Steele, 4 over: $50,000

LIV Golf Riyadh Team-Event Payouts

WIN: Ripper GC (Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Lucas Herbert), 69 under: $3 million

2. Torque GC, 66 under: $1.5 million

3. 4Aces GC, 59 under: $900,000

T4. Fireballs GC, Legion XIII; 53 under: $675,000

6. Smash GC, 52 under: $600,000

7. Crushers GC, 48 under: $550,000

T8. Southern Guards GC, Korean Golf Club; 44 under: $475,000

10. RangeGoats GC, 43 under: $400,000

11. Majesticks GC, 32 under: $300,000

12. Cleeks GC, 24 under: $250,000

13. HyFlyers GC, 14 under: $200,000

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JEFF RITTER

Jeff Ritter is the managing director of SI Golf. He has more than 20 years of sports media experience, and previously was the general manager at the Morning Read, where he led that business’s growth and joined SI as part of an acquisition in 2022. Earlier in his career he spent more than a decade at SI and Golf Magazine, and his journalism awards include a MIN Magazine Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a master’s from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

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