Koepka wins LIV event, earns $8M season payout

KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia -- Brooks Koepka holed his birdie putt connected the 3rd playoff spread to triumph the LIV Golf Invitational-Jeddah connected Sunday and assertion his archetypal triumph connected the breakaway tour.

Little could abstracted Koepka from adjacent person and American compatriot Peter Uihlein each weekend, and they matched each different birdie for birdie connected the archetypal 2 playoff holes.

But Koepka yet prevailed aft Uihlein's 3rd changeable from the soil went into the h2o portion Koepka deed a textbook changeable earlier making the putt to seal his archetypal triumph since February 2021.

Koepka, a erstwhile top-ranked subordinate and four-time large winner, was affectional afterward arsenic the 32-year-old revealed helium had feared for his vocation portion battling injury.

"The past 2 years haven't been fun. It's been a agelong road," Koepka said. "I didn't cognize if my vocation was implicit for a half-second. So it's bully to beryllium capable to travel backmost and beryllium capable to win."

Koepka had led aft the opening circular astatine the Royal Greens Golf and Country Club successful King Abdullah Economic City but was overtaken by Uihlein connected Saturday.

They were successful a four-way necktie for the pb astatine the last spread Sunday, but some birdied to caput into the playoff and permission Joaquin Niemann (65) and Sergio Garcia (68) a changeable behind.

Koepka had a 1-under-69, portion Uihlein made par arsenic some finished astatine 12 nether overall.

The effect saw Koepka instrumentality 2nd spot successful the play standings with a prize of $8 cardinal and Uihlein assertion the $4 cardinal prize for third. Dustin Johnson has already clinched the LIV idiosyncratic champion rubric and its prize of $18 million.

It was the seventh and last LIV Golf Invitational for idiosyncratic and squad play. The past lawsuit of the inaugural play volition beryllium successful Miami successful 2 weeks for four-man teams.

LIV Golf is funded by the Saudi Arabia sovereign wealthiness fund, but this was the archetypal tourney held successful Saudi Arabia aft erstwhile events successful London; Portland, Oregon; Bedminster, New Jersey; Boston; Chicago; and Bangkok.

LIV Golf has 48-player fields with nary chopped implicit 54 holes and diagnostic $25 cardinal successful full prize money. Players who person been drawn to the ample prizes person been banned from playing connected the PGA and European tours.