The beta test season is over, with LIV Golf kicking off Year 2 at Mayakoba Resort in Mexico over the weekend, the first of 14 events scheduled for 2023. Officials for the Saudi-backed circuit have rebranded it the LIV Golf League and are rallying around the team aspect of the competition, but it was the individual winner who stole the show on Sunday.
Charles Howell III charged from a shot back entering the final round, shooting a bogey-free 63 to claim medalist honors by four shots over Peter Uihlein with a 16-under 197 total. The 43-year-old from Augusta, Ga., who surprised many by jumping to LIV last summer after 23 years on the PGA Tour, claimed just his fourth career professional victory.
Howell famously earned $42 million on the PGA Tour despite winning only three times in 609 career starts. Yet his biggest individual prize money payout was only $1.152 million with his victory at the 2018 RSM Classic. He easily eclipsed that on Sunday by claiming the $4 million first-place prize money payout from the overall purse of $20 million.
As he dashed to individual title, Howell helped lead his Crushers GC to a runway victory in the team competition as well. Howell, Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey and Anirban Lahiri posted a collective 26 under to beat the 4Aces by nine shots and earn $3 million from the $5 million team prize money payout.
Here’s the prize money payout for the field at Mayakoba.
Win: Charles Howell III, -16, $4,000,000
2: Peter Uihlein, -12, $2,125,000
3: Branden Grace, -10, $1,500,000
4: Paul Casey, -7, $1,050,000
T-5: Brendan Steele, -6, $887,5000
T-5: Cameron Smith, -6, $887,5000
T-7: Pat Perez, -5, $610,000
T-7: Sebastian Munoz, -5, $610,000
T-7: Carlos Ortiz, -5, $610,000
T-7: Matthew Wolff, -5, $610,000
T-11: Joaquin Niemann, -4, $405,000
T-11: Ian Poulter, -4, $405,000
T-11: Graeme McDowell, -4, $405,000
T-11: Talor Gooch, -4, $405,000
T-15: Scott Vincent, -3, $237,000
T-15: Mito Pereira, -3, $237,000
T-15: Abraham Ancer, -3, $237,000
T-15: Marc Leishman, -3, $237,000
19: Jason Kokrak, -2, $220,000
T-20: Kevin Na, -1, $184,000
T-20: Dean Burmester, -1, $184,000
T-20: Cameron Tringale, -1, $184,000
T-23: Matt Jones, E, $167,000
T-23: Bryson DeChambeau, E, $167,000
T-23: Henrik Stenson, E, $167,000
T-23: Sergio Garcia, E, $167,000
T-27: Phil Mickelson, +1, $158,000
T-27: Harold Varner III, +1, $158,000
T-27: Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra, +1, $158,000
T-27: Richard Bland, +1, $158,000
T-27: Brooks Koepka, +1, $158,000
T-32: Thomas Pieters, +2, $151,000
T-32: Anirban Lahiri, +2, $151,000
34: Danny Lee, +3, $148,000
T-35: Charl Schwartzel, +4, $144,000
T-35: James Piot, +4, $144,000
T-35: Dustin Johnson, +4, $144,000
T-38: Patrick Reed, +5, $139,000
T-38: David Puig, +5, $139,000
40: Bubba Watson, +6, $136,000
T-41: Lee Westwood, +8, $133,000
T-41: Louis Oosthuizen, +8, $133,000
43: Jed Morgan, +10, $130,000
T-44: Bernd Wiesberger, +11, $127,000
T-44: Sam Horsfield, +11, $127,000
46: Laurie Canter, +12, $124,000
47: Chase Koepka, +15, $122,000
48: Sihwan Kim, +23, $120,000
Win: Crushers (Charles Howell III, Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey, Anirban Lahiri), -26, $3,000,000
2: 4Aces (Peter Uihlein, Dustin Johnson, Pat Perez, Patrick Reed), -17, $1,500,000
3: Torque (Sebastian Munoz, Mito Periera, David Puig, Joaquin Niemann), -13, $500,000
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