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Who’s playing at the 2023 LIV Golf Valderrama event? Field, top players and predictions

With the LIV Golf tour headed back to Europe, we check out the players and predictions for the 2023 Valderrama event.

ETIENNE LAURENTEFE

The Real Club Valderrama in southern Spain will welcome the LIV Golf tour as a lineup of stars such as Cameron Smith, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, and Phil Mickelson will compete for the first ever appearance by LIV in continental Europe.

Widely considered to be Europe’s answer to Augusta, Valderrama is immaculately manicured and has a real championship pedigree.

Following the now-standard LIV Golf format, Valderrama will see 12 teams, 48 players, three rounds of tournament play, shotgun starts, no cuts, shorter playing windows and smaller fields.

The tournament’s prize pool is a staggering $25 million, with $20 million allocated to the individual competition and $5 million to the team competition.

The winner of the individual competition will pocket $4 million while the winning team will divvy up $3 million.

The players to keep your eye on are Sergio Garcia, Harold Varner III, and Abraham Ancer. Garcia has won here three times previously and will be captaining Fireballs GC. He is the odd-on favorite to win here in 2023.

Varner will play for Torque GC and has already won at Washington DC this year, making him a serious challenger for the title in Valderrama.

Full Field at Valderrama

Here are the teams and players for the 2023 LIV Golf Valderrama event

4Aces GC

  • Dustin Johnson
  • Pat Perez
  • Patrick Reed
  • Peter Uihlein

Cleeks GC

  • Richard Bland
  • Martin Kaymer
  • Graeme McDowell
  • Bernd Wiesberger

Crushers GC

  • Paul Casey
  • Bryson DeChambeau
  • Charles Howell III
  • Anirban Lahiri

Fireballs GC

  • Abraham Ancer
  • Eugenio Chacarra
  • Sergio Garcia
  • Carlos Ortiz

HyFlyers GC

  • Phil Mickelson
  • James Piot
  • Brendan Steele
  • Cameron Tringale

Iron Heads GC

  • Sihwan Kim
  • Danny Lee
  • Kevin Na
  • Scott Vincent

Majesticks GC

  • Laurie Canter
  • Sam Horsfield
  • Ian Poulter
  • Henrik Stenson
  • Lee Westwood

RangeGoats GC

  • Talor Gooch
  • Thomas Pieters
  • Harold Varner III
  • Bubba Watson

Ripper GC

  • Matt Jones
  • Marc Leishman
  • Jediah Morgan
  • Cameron Smith

Smash GC

  • Brooks Koepka
  • Chase Koepka
  • Jason Kokrak
  • Matthew Wolff

Stinger GC

  • Dean Burmester
  • Branden Grace
  • Louis Oosthuizen
  • Charl Schwartzel

Torque GC

  • Sebastián Muñoz
  • Joaquin Niemann
  • Mito Pereira
  • David Puig

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