LIV Golf has announced the first four dates for its 2025 schedule, and there is a distinctly international flavour to the start of the season. The 2025 LIV season will kick off with dates in Saudi Arabia, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore.
LIV will debut in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, with the 2025 Kickoff Tournament on February 6-8 at the Riyadh Golf Club. One week later, on February 14-16, LIV returns to Adelaide, Australia at The Grange Golf Club, the site of LIV’s most popular and raucous event to date, the 2024 Australian stop. Two weeks later, on March 7-9, LIV will tee off at the Hong Kong Golf Club. One week after that, LIV travels to Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore for the tournament on March 14-16. The remainder of LIV’s schedule, including domestic events, will be announced in the future.
The 2025 Masters will be held from April 10-13. Many players have qualified based on previous victories. LIV Golf has set up the schedule so that players can participate in all majors.
The structure and timing of the announcement is a further indicator of LIV’s intention to be a much more international tour than the largely American-based PGA Tour. With golf becoming increasingly popular globally, particularly in Asia and the Middle East, it’s a strategy designed to meet budding golf fans where they are, rather than expecting them to connect and tune in to events taking place on the other side of the world.
LIV’s schedule will be demanding for players, especially those based in the U.S., given all the time zone changes and the extensive travel involved. This would be the price of those substantial salaries LIV players have been receiving, regardless of promises or plans to play less golf and spend more time with family. LIV clearly projects the image of an organization that is planning for a long-term, internationally based future.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, LIV Golf’s financial backers and the PGA Tour announced a merger/strategic alignment 15 months ago, but since then there has been little indication that a true unification is imminent. For now, the two sides continue on their own paths and schedules.
Several LIV players remain competitive and compelling figures, even if they aren’t as visible as they are on the PGA Tour. Bryson DeChambeau is the reigning U.S. Open champion, Jon Rahm was gunning for an Olympic gold medal until the final holes, and Brooks Koepka has a T2 and a major win since moving to LIV. But as popular as the LIV players are, and as successful as they’ve been in taking on their PGA Tour opponents, it’s now almost certain that they’ll only meet as a group in the four majors in 2025.
