LIV Golf Korea preview: Can Brooks Koepka get his first win of the season?

Liv Golf concludes the first half of the 2025 season with this week’s LIV Golf Korea presented by Coupang Play, the seventh duration of the tournament The Calendar of the League of 14 events. Here is everything that should know before the action begins live in Fox Sports.

Basic information

When: May 2-4

Where: Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea

Competence: Three rounds/54 stroke holes

Field: 54 players: 13 teams of four players each, and two wildcards

Shotgun begins local time
Rd. 1, 11:05 am (May 1, 10:05 pm et)
Rd. 2, 11:35 am (May 2, 10:35 pm et)
Rd. 3, 12:25 pm (May 3, 11:25 pm et)

Key stories

• Liv Golf makes its first visit to South Korea, which becomes the tenth country different to organize a LIV golf tournament
• Liv Golf Korea marks the midpoint of the 2025 season, with six regular seasonal tournaments and the Michigan team championship scheduled for the second half
• Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea becomes the first course to organize a LIV golf tournament and a glass of presidents
• Seven full-time LIV golf players have won professional tournaments in Korea-Brooks Koepka, Graeme McDowell, Paul Casey, Sergio García, Yubin Jang, Lee Westwood and Marc Leishman
• 10 Players Who Competition In the 2015 Presidents Cup Held At Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea Are in the Field – International Team Members Branding Grace, Anirban Lee, Danny Lee, Marc Leishman, Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzon, and United States, Dustelers and Dustelers and Dustelers and Dustelers and Dustelers and Dustelers and Dustelers and Dustelers and Dustelers and Dustels, Dustelers and Dustels, Dustels and Dustels, Dustels, Dustel’s and Dustels, Dustel, powders, powders, powders, dust, powders, powders, powders, powders, powders, powders, powders and powders. Watson
• The leader of the points of the season, Joaquin Niemann, captain of Torque GC, will seek the fourth individual victory of the season after his victory in Mexico City that achieved the exemption of Liv Golf for the United States Open in June in June
• Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII won its second tournament in the season in Mexico City and has jumped at the top of the teams throughout the season
• Korea marks the final Golf Liv event before the next golf commander, the PGA championship, in which 12 LIV golf players are scheduled to compete

‘Major’ week for iron heads

Iron Heads GC captain Kevin Na describes this week’s Liv Golf Korea presented by Coupang as the “major” of his team, and with a good reason.

Three members of the iron heads were born in Korea, then in Seoul; Yubin Jang in the suburb or gyeonggi-do; And Danny Lee, born and raised in Incheon, the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea site, where this week’s tournament will take place.

“Having a LIV golf hero in my hometown, it doesn’t become more special than this,” Lee said. “I was born in Incheon and lived there until I was in primary school. That is why Liv Golf in Incheon feels incredible significant.

Na, an original Liv Golf member, has encouraged the league to play in South Korea, especially with the popularity of golf in the boom in the country in recent years. Almost 17% of adults (6.24 million people) participated in sports, at least once the 2023 calendar year lasted.

“I am delighted to finally be able to show Korean fans the unique culture and game that Liv Golf sacrifices,” Na said, added that it is a different style of the conspicon of traditional golf, and it will surely be a tomb of refreshing. 20 and 30 years, I think the answer will be simply stronger.

Iron heads expect the home support to lead to their first team title. Lee is the only member of the team that celebrates a trophy, after having won the individual title in Tucson in 2023.

“Having three players born in Korea in the same team and representing Asia makes this really significant,” said Lee. “Either in the competition of the team or in the individual format, if we can offer a strong performance, I would love to share that joy with our fans.”

On the course

Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea

Incheon, South Korea

Par 72

Yardage 7,344

Meters 6,715

• Nicklaus Design, headed by the legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus, designed the course he opened in October 2010 and is among the 25 Jack Nicklaus golf courses worldwide
• The course is the focal point of the green space program centered in the center of Songdo International Business District and is an annual World Golf Awards awards for the best southern Korea golf course
• A variety of notable tournament has been played in multiple tours in the course, including the 2015 Presidents Cup, the first play in Asia and the International Crown, an eight -nations team event in the Tour LPGA
• Ten current Golf Liv players competed in the Presidents Cup: four in the winning American team and six for the international team
• Stinger GCS Branden Grace was the most productive player in any team, winning his five games for the international team
• Hyflyers GC captain, Phil Mickelson, tied for the most productive player for the US., With 3.5 points in his four games played
• More than half of the holes have ponds or lakes that come into play, including three of the four par-3 holes

Golf Digest appointed him as the fourth best course in South Korea, writing: “This is an impressive design of Nicklaus, one that transformed a flat site and boring into a pine tip design with pine.

This piece is courtesy of Mike Mcallister in association with Liv Golf.

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