First Look: LIV GOLF ANDALUCÍA

About this year's LIV Golf League Spain event

When: July 12-14, 2024

Where: Real Club Valderrama, Sotogrande, Cádiz, Spain

Competition: Three rounds/54 holes of stroke play

Field: 54 players – 13 teams of four players each, and two wild cards

Purse: $25 million USD, $20 million individual, $5 million team

Winner’s Share: $4 million USD (individual), $3 million USD (team)

Local Tee Time: Shotgun Start for Rds. 1-2 at 1:15 p.m. local (7:15 a.m. ET); Rd. 3 at 1:05 p.m. local (7:05 a.m. ET)

Take a virtual tour of the course below!

LIV Golf returns to Spain and the iconic Real Club Valderrama for the second consecutive year. Ranked among the top courses in the world, Real Club Valderrama has hosted numerous professional events, including last year’s LIV Golf Andalucía, along with the 1997 Ryder Cup – the first time the event had been held in Continental Europe.

Valderrama was originally designed by famed golf architect Robert Trent Jones in 1974. Jones was brought back to work on the course when Jaime Ortiz-Patiño bought the course in the mid-1980s. Valderrama is now widely considered to be the “Augusta of Europe” for its championship pedigree and immaculate maintenance.

Torque is the defending Valderrama team champion while Talor Gooch, now with Smash GC, won the individual title at Valderrama last year while playing for RangeGoats GC.

Legion XIII, captained by Spanish star Jon Rahm, won the previous LIV Golf tournament in Nashville for its third team victory of the season with England’s Tyrrell Hatton, a member of Legion XIII, as he looks to go back-to-back after winning his first individual LIV Golf title in Nashville.

Rahm and Hatton rank second and third, respectively, behind Torque GC Captain Joaquin Niemann in the individual points standings. Whilst Bryson DeChambeau’s Crushers GC, the overall 2023 Team Champions, lead the team points standings through nine events.

Cleeks GC’s Richard Bland makes his first start after winning his second consecutive senior major. Cleeks GC star Richard Bland remains undefeated in senior majors this year, as he followed his Senior PGA Championship victory by winning the U.S. Senior Open after a spectacular bunker shot on the fourth playoff hole at Newport Country Club in Rhode Island.

Four Spanish-born LIV Golf players, including first year member Jon Rahm, will have plenty of support this week as they compete in front of their home fans at LIV Golf Andalucía.

Rahm, the two-time major winner and captain of the expansion Legion XIII team, makes his first visit to Valderrama since joining LIV Golf in the offseason.

“It’s always special to go back to Valderrama,” said Rahm, born in Barrika in Basque Country. “It’s a golf course with so much history – so much Spanish history – and I’m glad to be going back with the level of field and competition it deserves.”

Major winner Sergio Garcia, born in Borriol, Castellón, is an honorary member at Valderrama and calls it his favorite golf course in the world. “Valderrama has deserved this kind of event and this kind of field for a long, long time,” said the three-time Valderrama winner.

Looking ahead after this week, 16 players in the LIV Golf Andalucía field will compete in next week’s Open Championship at Royal Troon, the final major of 2024.

HOW TO WATCH LIV GOLF ANDALUCÍA

UNITED STATES: The CW Network airs the LIV Golf League in 100% of U.S. markets.

UK: LIV Golf Plus and YouTube

Friday – Live on The CW App, LIV Golf Plus, LIV Golf YouTube and Caffeine
Saturday and Sunday – Live on The CW, LIV Golf Plus and LIV Golf YouTube.

GLOBAL: Broadcast in over 160 international territories Live and On-Demand, free of charge, via LIV Golf Plus. Available for download on iOS, Android, FireTV, and on LIVGolfPlus.com. Also airing on several international broadcast partners.