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league’s promotions tournament for the chance to earn event, 2) 2nd best finish in an event, 3) 3rd best finish in
their spot back for next season an event, and so on.

Note: TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP RACE
x Team Captains are exempt from relegation in 2023
x Players from the season’s initial 48-player roster who, As the team champion of last year’s LIV Golf Invitational
due to injury, are unable to compete in a minimum of Series, Dustin Johnson’s 4Aces GC has its sights set on the
four regular season events will not be included in the final team podium once again. The 4Aces currently lead
season standings and will avoid relegation the team standings with 124 points, but it’s any team’s race
x There is no minimum number of events required for a to earn a top-four seed and first-round bye for the Team
reserve player to be included in the season standings Championship.

INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE In every regular season tournament, teams finishing in
the top eight receive points, with 32 points awarded to a
Halfway through the season, the individual championship team champion and 24 going to the runner-up. With six
is anyone’s to win. Points are awarded to the top 24 tournaments remaining, multiple teams are in position to
finishers in each tournament’s 48-player field, and with 40 take control of the standings. Just outside the top three
points awarded for a tournament win and 30 points for are RangeGoats GC (91 points) captained by two-time
runner-up, the door is still open for many players to make Masters winner Bubba Watson, Crushers GC (80 points)
a move. In the individual standings, Gooch (96 points) led by 2020 U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau,
leads the pack and has been playing some of the best golf and Fireballs GC (66 points), captained by 2017 Masters
of any player in the world. He’s closely trailed by Grace (86 champion Sergio Garcia to round out the top six.
points), who finished top three in the last two LIV events to
jump up the leaderboard. The next two spots are occupied LIV Golf continues action this week in Sotogrande, Spain,
by two of the four reigning major champions: Koepka (85 for its first stop of the season in continental Europe. The
points) and Ripper GC captain Cameron Smith (83 points). highly anticipated event tees off at the world-renowned
Real Club Valderrama, site of more than two dozen
*In the case of ties, rankings are decided by a set of championship tournaments including the 1997 Ryder Cup.
tiebreakers in the following order: 1) Best finish in an General admission tickets and hospitality packages are

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