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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Benjamin Goddard

Axed LIV golfers who teed up at rebel series’ inaugural event and where they are now

Axed golfers who lined up for the inaugural LIV Golf event last June have gone in different directions since playing for huge sums of money at the Centurion Club in Hertfordshire.

Former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel won the first LIV Golf event and claimed the first prize of £3.86million. The 48-player restricted field included some golf stars with the likes of Dustin Johnson, Lee Westwood and Phil Mickelson joining the rebel series from the outset.

However, other golf stars were more reluctant to face PGA Tour suspension and compete on the lucrative LIV Golf tour so chief executive Greg Norman was forced to recruit some unknown names to fill the field.

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