Round 12 of the 14-event LIV Golf League 2023 season is just around the corner — here is a quick glance at all you need to know

ABOUT THE TOURNAMENT

When: September 22-24, 2023
Where: Rich Harvest Farms, Sugar Grove, Illinois
Competition: 54 holes of stroke play
Field: 48 players/12 teams
Purse: $25 million ($20 million individual, $5 million team)
Winner’s share: $4 million (individual), $3 million (team)
Local tee time: Shotgun start for Rds 1-2 at 12.15pm, Rd 3 at 12.05pm

KEY STORYLINES

• LIV Golf returns to Chicago, site of last year’s win by Cameron Smith (individual) and 4 Aces (team)
• Defending champion Smith has two wins in 2023 and leads the season-long individual points standings
• Smith comes off a dominant seven-stroke victory in Bedminster, the largest individual winning margin in LIV Golf history
• Smith’s all-Australian Ripper won its first team trophy at Bedminster — the eighth different team to win a LIV Golf tournament
• Two tournaments remain in the 2023 regular season that will crown the individual champion and determine seeding for the season-ending Team Championship in Miami
• Five teams – 4 Aces, Torque, Stinger, Crushers and RangeGoats – remain mathematically alive for the top four seeds that will receive first-round byes
• Jediah Morgan, James Piot, Chase Koepka and Sihwan Kim are currently in the Drop Zone with two tournaments left to improve their status

WHAT THEY SAID

2022 LIV Golf Chicago champion Cameron Smith:
I think the fans were awesome there last year. That’s probably what I remember the most. And the corn fields, that was pretty cool. But the fans were unreal, they were behind me all week and I can’t wait to get back there and show them something else.

Three-time 2023 winner Talor Gooch:
I didn’t have a great tournament there last year so I’m ready to go try and make up for it.

Former University Of Illinois star Thomas Pieters:
There’s going to be a lot of friends out there. A lot of faces I haven’t seen in a long time. The Illini fundraiser for our golf team is the Sunday before so I’m going to go to that. Yeah, it’s going to be really cool to see coach again and some of the guys, some of the former golfers. They are going to come back for that event as well. It’ll be a lovely evening.

ABOUT THE COURSE

Rich Harvest Farms
Sugar Grove, Illinois
Par: 71
Yardage: 7,401

• Located less than an hour outside of Chicago, Rich Harvest Farms is consistently ranked in Golf Digest’s America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses
• Owned and built by Jerry Rich, the course consists of 18 perfectly manicured holes and is an 1,820-acre showcase of nature and agriculture
• When it officially opened in 1999, Rich Harvest Farms was rated the 5th Best New Private Golf Course by Golf Digest
• In addition to successfully hosting the 2022 LIV Golf Chicago tournament, Rich Harvest Farms also hosted the 2009 Solheim Cup as well as numerous collegiate events, including the 2017 NCAA Division 1 Golf Championships
• The popular “Watering Hole” concept prominently featured at LIV Golf Adelaide will be back for the par-3 17th hole in Chicago, with amphitheatre-style seating from tee to green, a live DJ, player-selected walk-up music, and introductions by legendary Chicago sports public address announcer Ray Clay

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