Adrian Otaegui will play within the LIV Golf Invitational Collection Staff Championship
Adrian Otaegui will return to the LIV Golf Invitational Collection to compete within the season-ending Staff Championship, lower than a fortnight after profitable on the DP World Tour.
The Spaniard performed in three of the primary 4 LIV Golf occasions since its launch in June, registering a tied-sixth end on the opening occasion in London, though hasn’t featured on the Saudi-backed circuit for the reason that Boston match in September.
Otaegui has continued to play on the DP World Tour all through the summer season and have become the primary LIV Golf participant to win on the circuit when he loved a six-shot victory on residence soil on the Andalucia Masters, with that success earlier this month transferring him again contained in the world’s high 100.
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Highlights from the fourth spherical of the Andalucia Masters from Actual Membership Valderrama, the place Adrian Otaegui impressed
The highest 36 gamers within the LIV Golf Invitational Collection particular person standings – who’ve performed at the very least 4 occasions this season – mechanically qualify to function at Trump Nationwide Doral Golf Membership, with league commitments and captains’ alternatives making up the rest of the sector.
Otaegui has been named forward of Japan’s Hideto Tanihara within the Torque GC line-up for the LIV Golf Staff Championship in Miami from October 28-30, becoming a member of Joaquin Niemann, Scott Vincent and Jediah Morgan for the knock-out match.
The 29-year-old is one in all two adjustments to the workforce line-ups from the ultimate common LIV Golf occasion in Jeddah from October 14-16, the identical week as his Valderrama victory, with Henni du Plessis introduced in to exchange compatriot Shaun Norris within the Stinger GC workforce.
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Who else is enjoying?
4 Aces GC – Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Talor Gooch, Pat Perez
Crushers GC – Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey, Charles Howell III, Anirban Lahiri
Fireballs GC – Sergio Garcia, Abraham Ancer, Carlos Ortiz, Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra
Stinger GC – Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Branden Grace, Henni du Plessis
Smash GC – Brooks Koepka, Jason Kokrak, Peter Uihlein, Chase Koepka
Majesticks GC – Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson, Sam Horsfield
Torque GC – Joaquin Niemann, Scott Vincent, Adrian Otaegui, Jediah Morgan
HY Flyers GC – Phil Mickelson, Bernd Wiesberger, Matthew Wolff, Cameron Tringale
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Iron Heads GC – Kevin Na, Sadom Kaewkanjana, Phachara Khongwatmai, Sihwan Kim
Cleeks GC – Martin Kaymer, Graeme McDowell, Laurie Canter, Richard Bland
Punch GC – Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Wade Ormsby, Matt Jones
Niblicks GC – Harold Varner III, Hudson Swafford, James Piot, Turk Pettit
What’s the format?
Groups have been incomes factors for his or her finishes in every occasion all through within the inaugural season, starting from 32 factors for a win to zero factors for these ending in positions ninth to twelfth.
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The highest 4 groups after the seven common occasions all obtain a bye via the primary spherical and mechanically advance to the semi-finals, with the groups ranked between fifth and eighth then getting to pick their opponents for the opening day from the 4 lowest-ranked sides.
Two singles and one foursomes match will happen in every quarter-final fixture, with the workforce incomes two factors advancing to Saturday’s semi-finals performed underneath the identical format because the opening day.
Sunday’s showpiece will see the 4 remaining groups compete over stroke play, with every participant’s workforce contributing in the direction of the workforce’s rating. The squad with the bottom whole after 18 holes will likely be topped the LIV Golf Invitational Collection Staff Champion.
Who has impressed this season?
Dustin Johnson’s 4 Aces GC (152 factors) ended the common season with a commanding benefit over Bryson DeChambeau’s Crushers GC (96), with Sergio Garcia’s Fireballs GC (93) and Stinger GC (72) the opposite two groups to earn a bye via the primary spherical.
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Smash GC, led by Brooks Koepka, occupy fifth spot and can get first choose for his or her quarter-final opponents, with Majesticks GC, Torque GC and HY Flyers GC additionally being seeded on the opening day.
Iron Heads GC, Cleeks GC, Punch GC and Niblicks GC occupy the ultimate 4 positions heading into the Staff Championship, the place the 12 groups are competing for his or her share of the $50m prize purse.
The profitable workforce will share $16m and $8m distributed between the workforce ending second, with each participant assured $250,000 only for competing and $750,000 for merely reaching the semi-finals.
