Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau clubbed together for round 1 of LIV Golf Tucson
The first round of LIV Golf Tucson is about to start on Friday. Pairings have been announced for the threesome starting at the second hole for the 1:15 p.m. ET shotgun start.
4Aces GC captain Dustin Johnson, Smash GC's Brooks Koepka, and Crushers GC's Bryson DeChambeau are clubbed together for the first round of the second event of the LIV Golf League's 2023 season.
Johnson and DeChambeau have been in the same LIV group twice before and Johnson and Koepka have shared a group once before.
This will also be the first time that DeChambeau and Koepka have shared the group since LIV Golf came into existence.
Johnson’s 4Aces are last season's year-ending Team Championship winners and emerged victorious in five of the eight events. Koepka's Smash GC won the LIV Golf's Jeddah event. DeChambeau’s Crushers won the LIV Golf League's 2023 season opener by 9 strokes.
Pairing for Friday’s first round of LIV Golf Tucson
Here are the pairings for Friday's opening round.
Shotgun Start -1:15 p.m. ET
Hole 1 – Cameron Smith (Ripper GC), Charles Howell III (Crushers GC), Phil Mickelson (HyFlyers GC)
Hole 2 – Bryson DeChambeau (Crushers GC), Dustin Johnson (4Aces GC), and Brooks Koepka (Smash GC),
Hole 3 –Abraham Ancer (Fireballs GC), Bubba Watson (RangeGoats GC), Louis Oosthuizen (Stinger GC)
Hole 4 – Branden Grace (Stinger GC), Carlos Ortiz (Fireballs GC), Lee Westwood (Majesticks GC)
Hole 5 – Matthew Wolff (Smash GC), Marc Leishman (Ripper GC), Talor Gooch (RangeGoats GC)
Hole 6 –, Harold Varner III (RangeGoats GC), Ian Poulter (Majesticks GC), Sebastian Munoz (Torque GC)
Hole 7 –Kevin Na (Iron Heads GC), Anirban Lahiri (Crushers GC), Patrick Reed (4Aces GC)
Hole 9 – Cameron Tringale (HyFlyers GC), Henrik Stenson (Majesticks GC), Jason Kokrak (Smash GC)
Hole 10 – Sam Horsfield (Majesticks GC), Danny Lee (Iron Heads GC), Dean Burmester (Stinger GC)
Hole 11 –James Piot (HyFlyers GC), Bernd Wiesberger (Cleeks GC), Scott Vincent (Iron Heads GC)
Hole 12 – Richard Bland (Cleeks GC), Chase Koepka (Smash GC), David Puig (Torque GC)
Hole 13 – *Laurie Canter (Cleeks GC), Jediah Morgan (Ripper GC), Sihwan Kim (Iron Heads GC)
Hole 15 – Graeme McDowell (Cleeks GC), Charl Schwartzel (Stinger GC), Eugenio Chacarra (Fireballs GC)
Hole 16 – Mito Pereira (Torque GC), Thomas Pieters (RangeGoats GC), Brendan Steele (HyFlyers GC)
Hole 17 – Matt Jones (Ripper GC), Paul Casey (Crushers GC), Pat Perez (4Aces GC)
Hole 18 – Peter Uihlein (4Aces GC), Sergio Garcia (Fireballs GC), Joaquin Niemann (Torque GC)
*-Substitute player for injured Martin Kaymer
The 54-hole format will be played over the next three days. The 48 players will be divided into 12 teams. competing for a purse size of $25 million. The winner will get $4 million in the individual event and the winning team will get a $3 million share.
Unlike last year, this year's event will be telecast live on the CW network in the US region. Fans outside the United States can watch the tournament on the LIVGolf Plus app, available both on iOS and Android,