LIV Golf 2023, teams and captains One of the innovative elements introduced in the LIV Golf tournaments is the simultaneous presence of the individual ranking and the team ranking. In each event there are two separate prize pools available to the players, one for the strokeplay classification and one for the team classification, where the scores of the four components are added up.
An exception is the final event, which is disputed only with the team formula (this year it will be held in Jeddah). Two weeks before the opening of the 2023 season, which will start on the course of the El Camaleon Golf Club in Mayakoba, the twelve teams and their Captains were presented.
Many confirmations and some news. The first novelty relates to the graphics of the team symbols, completely revised. Two teams have also changed names. The team led by Bubba Watson (who, finally, will return to the field after a season as non-playing Captain) abandons the denomination Niblicks GC and assumes that of RangeGoats GC.
It was Watson himself who explained the genesis of the new name. “The term Range because it brings me back to the roots of who I am, where I come from” In 1991, at the age of thirteen, Watson began attending the Summit Driving Range that opened near his home in Pensacola.
In 2018 he took it over, enhancing it and renaming it Pensacola Golf Centre, creating a point of reference for the development of golf. Goats is not the acronym we are used to using (Great Of All Times), for Bubba and his teammates it is formed by the words Golfers On A Team (the final s because they are more players).
Another team has changed its name, the one led by Cameron Smith. The Aussies team moves from Punch GC to Ripper GC. Ripper is a term that in Australian slang means “fantastic”. Among the Captains, rotation for Team Majesticks GC, where Lee Westwood leaves the role of helmsman to Ian James Poulter.
Everything remains unchanged for the other teams. LIV Golf is a professional golf tour funded by the Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. The name “LIV” refers to the Roman numerals for 54, the score if every hole on a par-72 course had been scored with birdies, and the number of holes to be played in LIV events.
