Brooks Koepka is smiling brightly and holding up the trophy after winning the 13th LIV Golf Tournament held on the 15th. (Photo = AFPBBNews)[이데일리 스타in 주영로 기자] On the day it was decided that my younger brother would be expelled, my older brother held up the championship trophy. It was a day in which the fates of brothers Brooks and Chase Koepka (USA) were mixed.
Brooks Koepka shot 2 under par 68 in the final 3rd round of the 13th competition (total prize money of $25 million) of the 2023 LIV Golf season finale held at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club (par 70) in King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia on the 15th (local time). After tying with Taylor Gooch (USA) with a final total of 14 under par 196, he won the overtime match. It has been 6 months since the 3rd competition last April and this is the 3rd win in LIV’s total.
On this day, LIV Golf ended its regular competition for the 2023 season. The final competition of the season will be held in Miami, USA for four days starting on the 22nd, but only team competitions will be held without individual competitions.
Gooch, who finished runner-up that day, was confirmed as the best player with 192 season points and received a bonus prize of $18 million (about 24.39 billion won).
Cameron Smith (Australia, 170 points), who ranked second in season points, received an additional bonus of $8 million, and Koepka (152 points) received an additional bonus of $4 million for third place.
On the day Koepka won, his younger brother, Chase Koepka, was demoted from LIV Golf due to poor performance.
LIV Golf announced on the 16th (Korean time) that Brooks Koepka’s younger brother Chase, as well as Korean-American players Kim Si-hwan, Morgan, and Pyatt, were included in the ‘drop zone’.
If you are included in the ‘drop zone’, you are not guaranteed participation in LIV Golf, which has 48 players. If you want to get your name back on the list, you have to try to re-enter through qualifying, but there aren’t many opportunities.
LIV Golf guarantees that up to 24th place will participate in the following year, depending on the individual points of the season. The team competition team will also remain the same. Those ranked 25th to 44th can continue to play in LIV Golf by remaining on their existing team or being selected by another team.
Of the four vacancies from the relegated players, one will go to the winner of the Asian Tour International Series, sponsored by LIV, and three players will be selected in qualifying.
As of the 16th, the top prize money winner in the Asian Tour International Series is Andy Ogletree (USA). Qualifying for LIV Golf is scheduled to be held in November.
Brooks Koepka’s younger brother Chase did not perform as well as his older brother and was included in the relegation list in last place. He competed in 13 competitions this year and finished in the top 25 just once, earning only one point.
Although his performance was poor, he earned a considerable amount of income by working at LIV Golf, where there was a lot of money.
Morgan earned $2.94 million in prize money, Koepka $2.09 million, Pyatt $1.79 million, and Kim Si-hwan $1.64 million. This is a lot of money that can be earned only if you rank at least 90th on the PGA Tour.
Chase Koepka, younger brother of Brooks Koepka. (Photo = AFPBBNews)
2023-10-16 15:10:00
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