Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles: Clues Emerge on the 2024 LIV Golf Schedule
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For reasons likely due to securing venues, LIV Golf has yet to announce its 2024 league schedule that will again have 14 events. But some details have emerged, although nobody is writing anything down in anything but pencil. As we’ve learned with LIV Golf, things change. And nothing is official until, well, it’s official.
But a few things to note. It appears that LIV Golf will not be returning to any of former President Donald Trump’s properties. It played at two last year, has played at two so far this year and is scheduled to play its season-ending Team Championship next month at Trump National Doral outside of Miami.
A preliminary schedule for 2024 shows no Trump venues and the season-ending team championship is listed as "South Florida."
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In fact, other than what is likely to be the season-opening event at Mayakoba in Mexico, the Greenbrier in West Virginia and Valderrama in Spain, there are no venues confirmed at this point.
For now, it appears LIV will play eight events outside of the United States: Mexico, Jeddah, Hong Kong, Adelaide, Singapore, Valderrama, England and South Korea.
LIV will follow the season-opening event in Mexico, which is tentatively slated for Feb. 2-4, with a tournament the following week in Las Vegas. Jeddah and Hong Kong will be back-to-back in March. There are U.S. events in Dallas, Los Angeles and Oklahoma City.
The L.A. tournament would precede the U.S. Open (meaning it is the same week at the Memorial Tournament) at Pinehurst with the Oklahoma City tournament to follow (the same week as the Travelers Championship.)
Unlike this year when Valderrama and England were in consecutive weeks, they appear to bookending the British Open at Royal Troon. The final event would be played in September, likely the week prior to the Presidents Cup and following the tournament in South Korea.
There is no Tucson event and the Tulsa event appears to be replaced by one in Oklahoma City.
There are two main takeaways: LIV is playing for pay, attempting to go to venues that will pay to be showcased in many cases.
And it appears it is less concerned about going up against some of the bigger PGA Tour events. Mayakoba would be opposite the PGA Tour’s tournament at Pebble Beach, while Las Vegas would be played the same week at the WM Phoenix Open—also Super Bowl weekend.
The L.A. and Oklahoma City events surrounding the U.S. Open would also be up against Signature events at the Memorial and the Travelers. The Greenbrier, like this year, would be the same week as the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoff event in Memphis.