LIV Golf Team Championship 2023: How does the format work? 

The second season of the LIV Golf League reaches its climax with the Team Championship in Miami.

LIV players will take on the Blue Monster Course at Trump National Doral Golf Club once again on October 20-22 in a unique three-day match play and stroke play tournament boasting a huge $50million total purse.

Dustin Johnson‘s 4Aces quartet won the inaugural LIV series Team Championship last year, as the two-time major champion shared $16m with fellow American teammates Talor Gooch, Patrick Reed and Pat Perez.

The individual champion for 2023 is crowned the week before the team finale in the final regular season event at the Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in Jeddah from October 13-15.

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Teams will then be seeded 1-12 based on the final regular season team standings after the LIV Golf Jeddah tournament.

The top four teams in the standings will receive a first-round bye and automatically qualify for Saturday’s semi-final matches.

The matches for the teams seeded between 5-12 in the quarter-finals will then be decided during a press conference on Wednesday October 18 ahead of the showpiece in Miami. The highest-seeded teams in the quarter-final draw will be able to select their opponents, starting with the fifth seed.

Friday’s quarter-finals will then feature a traditional shotgun start with four head-to-head team matchups taking place concurrently, including two singles matches and one foursomes match within each competition.

The four winning teams will advance to the semi-finals on Saturday, where they will face the top four seeds, who had a bye, in another round of head-to-head matchups, competing in the same format as Friday.

Then, on Sunday, all 48 players in the LIV roster will compete in one round of stroke play, with each player’s score contributing to an overall team score.

The lowest team score among the teams who qualified for the finals will determine the LIV Golf Team Champion 2023.

LIV Golf Team Championship 2023 schedule and format explained

Quarterfinals: Friday, October 20

• Teams seeded 1-4 will receive a bye
• Teams seeded 5-12 will compete in head-to-head match-play competitions
• Highest-ranked teams select their opponents
• All 32 players amongst those eight teams will compete simultaneously in a shotgun start
• For each head-to-head team match-up, three matches will take place: two singles matches and one alternate-shot (foursomes) match
• Matches will be played until a winner is determined; there will be no ties. Each match winner receives one point
• Teams earning two points will advance to Saturday’s Semifinals

Semifinals: Saturday, October 21

• Teams seeded 1-4 will join the winning four teams from Friday for another day of head-to-head team match play
• Highest-ranked teams select their opponents
• All 32 players amongst those eight teams will compete simultaneously in a shotgun start
• Teams compete in the same format as Friday: two singles matches and one alternate-shot (foursomes) match, with each match winner receiving one point
• Matches will be played until a winner is determined; there will be no ties
• The four teams earning two points will advance to Sunday’s Finals

Finals: Sunday, October 22

• All 48 players amongst the 12 teams will compete in a shotgun start with one round of stroke play
• All four individual scores count towards the team’s score
• The four teams advancing to the finals compete for 1st through 4th place
• The four teams eliminated in the semifinals compete for 5th through 8th place
• The four teams eliminated in the quarterfinals compete for 9th through 12th place
• Larger prizes are awarded to teams based on their finishing position
• The lowest team score on Sunday amongst the four teams that advanced to the finals is crowned the 2023 LIV Golf Team Champion