Talor Gooch lost but won at the same time Sunday at the LIV Golf League regular-season finale. The 31-year-old from Oklahoma fell on the second hole in a playoff with Brooks Koepka for the individual title at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club in Saudi Arabia, but his runner-up finish allowed him to pull out the title in the season-long Individual Championship points race — and claim the $18 million bonus.

Gooch, a three-time winner on the LIV circuit in 2023, trailed only Cameron Smith in the points standings at the start of the week as LIV was playing its last regular-season event before its team championship next week in Miami. But when Smith struggled (finishing tied for 24th), it allowed Gooch to swoop in a claim the top prize.

Gooch’s rounds of 64-62 on the weekend were nearly good enough for a fourth win in 2023, but Koepka, the defending champion in the event, made birdies on two of the last three holes of regulation to tie Gooch at 14-under for the tournament (shooting a Sunday 68). And then a pair of birdies in playoff sealed his win.

 

With the victory, Koepka claimed the $4 million individual first-place prize money payout from the $20 million overall individual purse. Here’s the prize money payout for the field.

INDIVIDUAL

Win: Brooks Koepka, -14, $4,000,000
2: Talor Gooch, -14, $2,250,000
T-3: Harold Varner III, -12, $1,100,000
T-3: Scott Vincent, -12, $1,100,000
T-3: Sergio Garcia, -12, $1,100,000
T-6: Dustin Johnson, -11, $613,333
T-6: Mito Pereira, -11, $613,333
T-6: Charles Howell III, -11, $613,333
T-9: Cameron Tringale, -10, $437,500
T-9: Joaquin Niemann, -10, $437,500
T-11: Bernd Wiesberger, -8, $331,428
T-11: Peter Uihlein, -8, $331,428
T-11: Abraham Ancer, -8, $331,428
T-11: Dean Burmester, -8, $331,428
T-11: Richard Bland, -8, $331,428
T-11: Eugenio Chacarra, -8, $331,428
T-11: Bryson DeChambeau, -8, $331,428
T-18: Lee Westwood, -7, $245,000
T-18: Carlos Ortiz, -7, $245,000
T-18: Patrick Reed, -7, $245,000
T-18: Charl Schwartzel, -7, $245,000
T-18: Jason Kokrak, -7, $245,000
T-18: Brendan Steele, -7, $245,000
T-24: Paul Casey, -6, $200,000
T-24: Cameron Smith, -6, $200,000
T-24: David Puig, -6, $200,000
T-24: Matt Jones, -6, $200,000
T-24: Martin Kaymer, -6, $200,000
T-29: Graeme McDowell, -5, $172,500
T-29: Thomas Pieters, -5, $172,500
T-29: Phil Mickelson, -5, $172,500
T-29: Marc Leishman, -5, $172,500
T-29: Louis Oosthuizen, -5, $172,500
T-29: Danny Lee, -5, $172,500
T-35: Kevin Na, -4, $152,500
T-35: Henrik Stenson, -4, $152,500
37: Branden Grace, -3, $147,500
T-38: Matthew Wolff, -2, $142,500
T-38: Ian Poulter, -2, $142,500
T-40: Sebastian Munoz, E, $136,125
T-40: Pat Perez, E, $136,125
T-40: Bubba Watson, E, $136,125
T-40: Anirban Lahiri, E, $136,125
T-44: Sam Horsfield, +2, $128,125
T-44: Sihwan Kim, +2, $128,125
46: James Piot, +3, $125,000
47: Jed Morgan, +5, $122,500
48: Chase Koepka, +6, $120,000

TEAM
Win: Fireballs GC (Ancer, Ortiz, Chacarra, Garcia), -34, $3,000,000
2: RangeGoats GC (Gooch, Varner, Pieters, Watson), -31, $1,500,000
3: Cleeks GC (McDowell, Wiesberger, Bland, Kaymer), -29, $500,000

Main image: Brooks Koepka. LIV Golf