LIV Golf Invitational Boston

LIV Golf Invitational Boston
Tournament information
Location	Bolton, Massachusetts
Established	2022
Course(s)	The Oaks Golf Course at The International
Par	72
Length	7,100 yards (6,500 m)^[1]
Tour(s)	LIV Golf
Format	Individual and team stroke play
Prize fund	US$20,000,000 (individual) US$5,000,000 (team)
Month played	September
Final year	2022
Tournament record score
Aggregate	195 Dustin Johnson (2022) 195 Anirban Lahiri (2022) 195 Joaquín Niemann (2022)
To par	−15 as above
Final champion
Dustin Johnson
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The LIV Golf Invitational Boston was a golf tournament held in Bolton, Massachusetts, outside of Boston at The Oaks Golf Course at The International. The tournament was held in September 2022 as part of the LIV Golf Invitational Series, a golf series led by Greg Norman and funded by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund. The 2022 48-player field included Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed and Sergio García.^[2]

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Format

The tournament will be a 54-hole individual stroke play event, with a team element. Four man teams will be selected via a draft by their designated team captains, with a set number of their total scores counting for the team on each day. Each round commenced with a shotgun start, with the leaders beginning on the first hole for the final round, in order to finish on the eighteenth.^[3]

Inaugural field

48 golfers participated in the inaugural LIV Boston event.^[a]

Teams

4 Aces GC: Johnson (c), Gooch, Perez, Reed
Cleeks GC: Kaymer (c), McDowell, Canter, Bland
Crusher GC: DeChambeau (c), Casey, Howell III, Lahiri
Fireball GC: García (c), Ancer, Ortiz, Chacarra
HY Flyers GC: Mickelson (c), Wiesberger, Wolff, Tringale
Iron Heads GC: Na (c), Kaewkanjana, Khongwatmai, Kim
Majesticks GC: Westwood (c), Al Kurdi, Poulter, Horsfield
Niblicks GC: Swafford, Piot, Pettit, Varner III
Punch GC: Ormsby, Jones, Leishman, Smith
Smash GC: B. Koepka (c), C. Koepka, Kokrak, Uihlein
Stinger GC: Oosthuizen (c), Schwartzel, Grace, Norris
Torque GC: Niemann, Vincent, Otaegui, Morgan

Winners

Individual

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runners-up
2022	Dustin Johnson	195	−15	Playoff^[d]	Anirban Lahiri Joaquín Niemann

Team

Year	Winners^[a]	Score (to par)	Margin of victory	Runners-up^[a]
2022	4 Aces GC^[e]	−32	2 strokes	Crushers GC^[f]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c (c) – Team captain
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Smith, Niemann, Varner III, Tringale, Leishman, Lahiri and Al Kurdi made their first appearances in the series.^[5]
^ Al Kurdi replaced Henrik Stenson, who was suffering from vertigo.^[4]
^ Johnson won with an eagle on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.
^ Talor Gooch, Dustin Johnson (c), Pat Perez and Patrick Reed
^ Paul Casey, Bryson DeChambeau (c), Charles Howell III and Anirban Lahiri

References

^ "The International". LIV Golf. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
^ "LIV Roster". LIV Golf. June 7, 2022. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
^ Scrivener, Peter (June 8, 2022). "LIV Golf - all you need to know about Saudi-funded series". BBC Sport. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
^ "Matthew Wolff makes first hole-in-one in LIV Golf history, tied for lead in Boston". ESPN. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
^ Schlabach, Mark (August 30, 2022). "Open champion Cameron Smith, five others leave PGA Tour for LIV Golf". ESPN. Retrieved August 30, 2022.

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