LIV Golf Invitational Portland

Golf tournament

The LIV Golf Invitational Portland was a professional golf tournament that was held in North Plains, Oregon, outside of Portland at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club. The inaugural tournament was held in July 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.^[2][3]

Format

The tournament was a 54-hole individual stroke play event, with a team element. Four man teams were 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.^[4]

Inaugural field

48 golfers participated in the inaugural LIV Portland event.^[5] 48 golfers were invited to play.^[a]

• Abraham Ancer^[b]
• Richard Bland
• Itthipat Buranatanyarat
• Laurie Canter
• Eugenio Chacarra^[b]
• Bryson DeChambeau^[b] (c)
• Hennie du Plessis
• Sergio García (c)
• Talor Gooch
• Branden Grace
• Justin Harding
• Sam Horsfield
• Yuki Inamori^[b]
• Dustin Johnson (c)
• Matt Jones
• Sadom Kaewkanjana
• Martin Kaymer (c)
• Phachara Khongwatmai
• Sihwan Kim
• Ryosuke Kinoshita
• Brooks Koepka^[b] (c)
• Chase Koepka
• Jinichiro Kozuma
• Graeme McDowell (c)
• Phil Mickelson (c)
• Jediah Morgan
• Kevin Na (c)
• Shaun Norris
• Louis Oosthuizen (c)
• Wade Ormsby (c)
• Carlos Ortiz^[b]
• Adrián Otaegui
• Pat Perez^[b]
• Turk Pettit
• James Piot
• Ian Poulter
• Patrick Reed^[b]
• Travis Smyth
• Ian Snyman
• Hudson Swafford
• Charl Schwartzel
• Hideto Tanihara (c)
• Peter Uihlein
• Scott Vincent
• Lee Westwood (c)
• Bernd Wiesberger
• Blake Windred
• Matthew Wolff^[b]

Teams

• 4 Aces GC: Johnson (c), Gooch, Perez, Reed
• Cleeks GC: Kaymer (c), Pettit, Snyman, Vincent
• Crusher GC: DeChambeau (c), Harding, Norris, Uihlein
• Fireball GC: García (c), Ancer, Chacarra, Ortiz
• HY Flyers GC: Mickelson (c), Buranatanyarat, Wiesberger, Wolff
• Iron Heads GC: Na (c), Kaewkanjana, Khongwatmai, Kim
• Majesticks GC: Westwood (c), Canter, Horsfield, Poulter
• Niblicks GC: McDowell (c), Piot, Smyth, Swafford
• Punch GC: Ormsby (c), Jones, Morgan, Windred
• Smash GC: B. Koepka (c), Bland, C. Koepka, Otaegui
• Stinger GC: Oosthuizen (c), du Plessis, Grace, Schwartzel
• Torque GC: Tanihara (c), Kinoshita, Kozuma, Inamori

Winners

Individual

Team

Notes

1. (c) – Team captain
2. Ancer, Chacarra, Dechambeau, Inamori, Brooks Koepka, Ortiz, Perez, Reed and Wolff made their first appearances in the series.^[6]
3. Talor Gooch, Dustin Johnson (c), Pat Perez and Patrick Reed
4. Hennie du Plessis, Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen (c) and Charl Schwartzel

References

1. "Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club". LIV Golf. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
2. Van Valkenburg, Kevin (June 7, 2022). "Dustin Johnson leaves PGA Tour to play in LIV". ESPN. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
3. Suggs, David (June 28, 2022). "LIV Golf Portland field 2022: Full list of golfers, including debuts of Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau after PGA Tour exit". Sporting News. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
4. Scrivener, Peter (June 8, 2022). "LIV Golf - all you need to know about Saudi-funded series". BBC Sport. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
5. "Teams announced for LIV Golf Invitational Portland". LIV Golf. June 28, 2022.
6. "LIV Golf Invitational Series: All you need to know ahead of second event this week in Portland". Sky Sports. June 29, 2022. Retrieved July 3, 2022.