LIV Golf returned this week with its season-opening event under the lights at Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. It offered a $30 million total purse, with $4 million to the individual winner and $10 million set aside for the team competition.
Elvis Smylie is one of the newcomers this season and he wasted no time in making his introduction, winning by a shot over 2025 season champion Jon Rahm in the desert. He also made some history as the first LIV player to earn a winner's world ranking points allotment, as a ruling from the Official World Golf Ranking earlier this week said points will be awarded to the top-10 finishers at each LIV event.
